Sex work, status of women and the Nordic Model
Legalizing sex work need not raise the dignity women. Experience of Newzealand suggests that legalizing does little to exploitation of women, unlike the Nordic model.
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Amidst lockdowns, the innovation India’s rural markets need
A discussion on the current impact of the ongoing lockdown on consumerism in rural India can be initiated in the realm of agriculture. In a village in Maharashtra, a farmer is not able to transport tomatoes to even small towns as the truck drivers are not operating because they have gone to their native village….
Women’s movement in India: Challenges and prospects
[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Male” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The history of the Women’s Movement is replete with radical advances and pragmatic withdrawals. Feminism is an intellectual tradition and a social movement at the same time. Since a new tradition takes time to garner legitimacy from the intellectual establishment, it often becomes imperative for…
Why businesses should use Voice Search Technology
“Voice tech is an opportunity – the chance to have a conversation with your audience”
– Mukul Devichand
PAATAL LOK: To watch or not, is not a question
Between Swarg, Dharti, and Paatal, India exists somewhere.
TikTok vs YouTube: Where Dhruv Rathi goes wrong
[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] Popular YouTuber Dhruv Rathi uploaded a video talking about the new YouTube versus TikTok controversy. Many people commented, expressing their surprise as the former usually talks about political and socio-economic issues. But Rathi being consistent (he also gives a second to the need for maintaining…
Ten Pandemic films: That gave me goosebumps
As a filmy nerd who more or less sees the world through the eyes of cinema, it’s essential for me to keep track of first-class movies; otherwise, it’s likely that I’ll run out of big ideas.
Fibromyalgia is not curable; only manageable
12th May is every year commemorated as Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, and May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month worldwide.
Lockdown purge: Look for love within and not outside
In today’s time of dating and meeting, we have lost the value of true love. And bingo we have dating sites if one will go another will come. But when you are stuck in four walls of your room during this lockdown, you all must be realizing what’s next? Something parted away, and I have…
Zizek on COVID-19: On burnout and other crises
As a project deeming itself free of external and alien limitations, the I is now subjugating itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, which are taking the form of compulsive achievement and optimization” Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society. A society under lockdown is a prime example of stringent external limitations being imposed on people. Due to the…
Poem: Not an unusual day
Not an unusual day [responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The alarm rang at five;Drowsily, she rubbed the eyes.Trying hard to leave the bed;Limping like a zombie, dead.She woke up to the blanket of darkness;Unwilling to move that day, I guess.The world around was still asleep;For her, the morning was a…
Friends, enemies, and populist politicians
The 20th-century politics majorly revolved around one question: How do we organize modern states? The same question in the 21st century poses a dilemma with regards to the democracies. Towards the end of the last century, liberal democracy triumphed over Fascism and Communism. The rise of populist leaders today marks a dangerous advent towards which…
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