Two new legal challenges are targeting conversion therapy. The first is a civil suit in New Jersey in which four former clients of a counseling group called Jonah are suing for deceptive practices. The patients argue they paid thousands of dollars for therapies that did not rid them of same-sex attractions, and that they then…
Begum Rokeya’s guide to a utopia was a vision of women empowerment and gender equality. Her death anniversary is commemorated as Rokeya Day on December 9 in Bangladesh
The terms ‘left’ or ‘right’ have collected emotional weight through the education or growing up process of an individual.
Rabindranath Tagore’s criticism of the concept of nationalism has kept humanism at the core.
Poet pens a heartfelt poem connecting the partition, the memories of the past and lives lost to the present.
Rape is one of India’s most common crime against women. In India, a girl is raped every 20 minutes.
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There can never truly be an ‘escape’ from the worlds we create for ourselves, and perhaps, it is fate that controls our exercise of free will as well.
The pressure from parents, the pressure of rising competition, the pressure of getting a job all lead to high stress in students if not taken care of, this stress starts raising many health problems like anxiety issues, depression etc. and even result in suicide.
Gandhi’s perceptions about the modern social institutions developed in India by the British Raj highlighted the egotistical, impatient and greedy facet of humankind.
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It’s food, crispy or salty, sweet or meat. It’s always a treat when it is right to pop into one’s mouth but the second it becomes naturally exhausted or stale, it finds its way to the dustbin.
The Harvard Men’s League for Women was formed in the spring of 1910 by John Reed and Max Eastman. In the fall of 1911, the League decided to invite the British militant Emmeline Pankhurst to give a lecture. The Harvard Corporation banned her from speaking on campus. The news made headlines all over the United States.
India’s foreign policy establishment, which has detested the Taliban for too long, faces a similar choice. The evolving situation may not leave India with an alternative but to engage constructively with the Taliban.
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