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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

World Heritage Sites In India: The List of World Heritage Sites in India is a group of places chosen by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO was created for the “conservation and protection of the world’s inheritance of books, works of art and monuments of history and science“. The constitution of UNESCO was ratified in 1946 …

Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world, which covers almost one-third of Earth’s total surface. Let us know some fun and interesting facts about Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean is the largest of the five oceans on Earth, which extends from Arctic in the north to Antarctica in the south and from Asia and Australia in the west to …

Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean of the world. Check out some interesting and fun facts about Indian Ocean. A part of the World Ocean body, the Indian Ocean covers 20% of the Earth’s main water surface, which attributes to a total of one-fifth of the world’s ocean area. The Indian Ocean, the third largest saline-water body of the …

Atlantic Ocean is the youngest among all the oceans in the world. Go through the article to find some interesting and fun facts about Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean in the world, next only to the Pacific Ocean. It is slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US. The ocean separates Northern and Southern …