Category Technology
There has been a global rise in online harassment of women and girls in the past year, usually by abusive partners or ex-partners who are stuck at home in front of a screen due to coronavirus lockdowns. Reuters | Posted by… Continue Reading →
Name-calling, intimidation and ham-fisted use of state repression—India is under siege from a few driving a majoritarian agenda. Progress will come only when citizens from dominant groups recognise the equal rights of all minorities and then force change from within…. Continue Reading →
Sharath S. Srivatsa Long shifts and failure to resolve payment and overtime issues allegedly led to the violence by the workers in an iPhone factory in Narasapura earlier this month. Sharath S. Srivatsa reports on the night of the unrest… Continue Reading →
Since COVID-19, I have a lot of people asking me to speak about sexual harassment while working from home, and my question is, why only now? I recently shared an article I had written a couple of days back with… Continue Reading →
A recent Supreme Court judgment that ordered the installation of CCTV cameras in interrogation centres strikes at the very heart of police brutality and gives clear guidelines about where and how these should be put up. It was probably one… Continue Reading →
Every day, 54, mostly developed countries give nearly $2 billion in support to their farmers By Richard Mahapatra Published: Friday 18 December 2020 The sites of the farmers’ protests on the borders of Delhi are a microcosm of Indian peasantry — rich and poor, small and… Continue Reading →
By Aditya Pandey* We are all aware of the dire consequences of subjecting young kids to intense academic pressure from an early age. In India, we have coaching institutes like FIITJEE and Resonance offering programmes for 6th standard kids to… Continue Reading →
Parvesh Sharma Tribune News Service Sangrur, November 30 Farmers are not only fighting against the Central farm laws on the ground, but in the virtual world as well and that too with equal success. They are using social media tools… Continue Reading →
“Ma, there’s something that I really want to talk to you about,” Faiza (name changed) texted her mother a fortnight ago. “Tell me, Beta,” the mother promptly replied. “I have been thinking about the day you took me to get… Continue Reading →
Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was awarded the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on October 18. The ceremony took place in Frankfurt, Germany without any invited guests due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Sen participated in… Continue Reading →