Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe led to more centralized states. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 also consolidated statist power in Europe and America. This pandemic is a portal to a new world—the nature of newness matters.
On 20th March 2020, four men accused of probably the most brutal gang rape in history were finally hanged to death. But no matter how much we celebrate the victory of the daughter of India and admire our judiciary for delivering justice, we cannot overlook the delay and injustice to thousands of other Nirbhayas. For…
Since mid-December, only one news appeared every day, and it was about the protests that had begun in response to the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. At the beginning of the new decade, a new news item made it to prime time, and it was about the spread of mysterious, suspected cases of…
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Hindi Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] Being nurtured in a liberal family where my father and mother were equally responsible for all the household chores, I never realized that few household activities are gender-dependent. I believe those of you who have been in such an environment would never have thought of it…
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Hindi Male” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The spread of the Corona epidemic is currently worldwide. As of April 19, 2020, almost 2.4 million cases of coronavirus have been reported worldwide. Of those, around 1,65, 000 people died. India has reported around 17,000 cases of coronavirus. Amidst the pandemic situation, a countrywide lockdown…
Anmol Mongia is a research scholar who has recently completed her MPhil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her interests include the study of religion and ethics, the philosophy of sports, and childhood studies. Even though COVID-19 is a novel virus, the experience of a viral pandemic is not. Despite a…
By ignoring the political will of communities involved. The Transgender Persons Bill passed by the government leaves room for ambiguity in defining gender.
My father, with his ‘middle class’ worldview and aspiration for a good life for his children, wanted at least one of us to become doctors. He stressed there are three gods (mother, teacher, and doctor) that roam the earth in human form. While the mother gives birth, the teacher provides meaning to life, and the…
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Hindi Male” buttontext=”Let’s listen to this Theel”] On the twenty-sixth day of January in 1950, India, that is Bharat, became a republic. It was on this day, we, the people of India, adopted our constitution. At that time, the world laughed at us for adopting the path of democratic-republic as a way forward for…
Responsible and good managers never play childish games like divide and rule policy in order to destroy the integrity of the team for their own benefit. When such games are played, the whole team as well as the clients suffer. Here is the story of a firsthand experience of such a situation in an office.
Ever since the COVID lockdown started, I came across a lot of social media posts about how this forced isolation could be a blessing in disguise. People were gushing about how Shakespeare had written ‘King Lear’ in quarantine, Isaac Newton had done groundbreaking research when he had to spend a year in isolation to avoid…
As we all struggle through the lockdown/curfew and various other COVID-19 restrictions, it has become essential that we follow some practical and useful advice from reliable sources about our mental health too. To begin with, this loss of routine and control is annoying and can set in anxiety and sometimes depression. We must thus focus…
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