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National Pollution Control Day is celebrated every year on 2nd of December in India in order to give the honor and memorialize the thousands of human beings who had lost their existence because of the Bhopal gas calamity. Bhopal gas tragedy was happened in the night of 2nd and 3rd December in the year 1984 because of the unintentional discharge …

In December 2003, when Chinmay Dharmesh Modi was 9, his parents discovered that they were suffering from AIDS. It was like a bolt from the blue. The situation became turbulent for Chinmay’s family, whereas he was too young to realize the implications of the disease. “My mother had a gynaecological problem, and so her doctor referred her for a few …

एड्स रोगी की प्रेरणादायक सच्ची कहानी: हर साल 1 दिसम्बर को दुनिया भर में विश्व एड्स दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता है। आप तो जानते ही हैं, एड्स एक लाइलाज बीमारी है। ऐसे में जिन लोगों को एड्स हो जाये उनका निराश होना स्वाभाविक ही है। मेरे विचार से एड्स दिवस मानाने की सार्थकता तभी है जब हम एड्स …

Saluting Aam Aurat: Society has its superwomen but there are many ordinary women who quietly fought the odds and came out winners in their own way While the media often celebrates and showcases women who break glass ceilings, many ordinary women, too, display heroic resilience and come out trumps in the battle called life. Many women struggle with remarkable grit …

Women Oriented Bollywood Films: In Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Deepika Padukone’s character Naina tells Bunny (played by Ranbir Kapoor) that she cannot leave her clinic and her parents and that she will have to let him go. Flushed with love, Bunny doesn’t want to lose Naina again after eight years and he chooses her over a job offer in Paris. …

IWD Special: These empowered women challenged conventions Shoot At Sight: Nisha Pahuja – Empowered women [1] Documentary filmmaker Nisha Pahuja got relentless support from Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for her docu-film, The World Before Her. Why? Because she challenged the conventions of women empowerment and regression on screen. Always socially conscious, Nisha took on the changing idea of women liberation …

International Women’s Day Special: I skulked home one afternoon from school in a particularly muggy hot Delhi summer month and spent the day cursing fate that I was born a girl. I was 14 years old, in class ninth and had just discovered that my period, the first two awful days (!), were going to coincide with the two days …

Most Saturday nights, you’ll catch businessman Jairaj Singh chilling with friends at a neighborhood lounge, drinking and passing on the hookah. “Hookah smoking is all about style,” says the 25-year-old Singh. At another lounge, engineering student Rishabh Singh, 22, is equally hooked on as he takes a long puff. “I love the smooth taste,” he says. One of the cardinal …

चौंक गए न आप यह बात सुन कर? पर बात सुनना ठीक है। भारत में औरत की इज्जत शायद 20 रुपए से भी कम है। एक औरत की इज्जत भोजन की एक प्लेट की कीमत से भी कम कैसे हो गई? उत्तर प्रदेश के सहारनपुर जिले में छोटी-छोटी दुकानों में ‘बलात्कार के वीडियोज’ की गर्मा-गर्म बिक्री इस बात की गवाही …

महीने के नामों को तो हम सभी जानते हैं, लेकिन क्या आप यह जानते हैं कि महीनों के यह नाम कैसे पड़े एवं किसने इनका नामकरण किया। नहीं न! तो जानिए… जनवरी वर्ष के पहले महीने का नाम रोमन देवता ‘जेनस’ के नाम पर पड़ा है। मान्यता है कि ‘जेनस’के दो चेहरे हैं। एक से वह आगे तथा दूसरे से …