21 वी सदी के डिजिटल युग का जनतंत्र पर प्रभाव
बदलते हुए समय ने अनेक बदलती हुईं व्यवस्थाएं देखी हैं। पुरातन समय में कबीलाई संस्कृति, सामंतशाही फिर राजशाही देखी है। समय की मांग के अनुसार व्यवस्थाएं बदलती रहती हैं। अब जनता के द्वारा चुनी हुई सरकार ही...
View ArticleMen ‘Act’, Women Just ‘Appear’: How Bollywood Treats Its Women
Women’s day just went by. We are still fighting for equal rights. This sounds quite strange, does it not? In today’s times when one Alyssa Carson prepares herself for setting off towards Mars, another...
View Article“Media Has Failed Us”: Open Letter To Journalists And Media Houses Of Our...
Subject: Concerns regarding Media’s Portrayal of the Ongoing Farmers’ Protests To Indian Journalists, We hope this letter finds you in good health. We, as members of the Peacebuilding Project, write to...
View ArticleFiringoti Depicts The Power Of A Revolutionary Spirit
Assamese filmmaker Jahnu Baruah’s 1991 feature film Firingoti is about a woman’s journey from the point of personal loss to a new ideological gain and political awakening. Jahnu Barua speaking at the...
View Articleडिजिटल युग में खबरों की घटती विश्वसनीयता के बीच कितनी ज़रूरी है मीडिया लिट्रेसी?
मीडिया को लोकतंत्र का चौथा स्तंभ कहा गया है। किसी भी समाज के निर्माण व संचालन में सूचनाओं का अहम योगदान होता है और इन सूचनाओं को एक व्यक्ति से दूसरे व्यक्ति या एक स्थान से दूसरे स्थान तक पहुंचाने में...
View ArticleWitches, Mudiyapairi, And Patriarchy In Rural India
You must have heard about this term recently in a movie. Mudiyapiri means a witch whose legs are twisted behind their ankles. We all have come across the definition of how a witch looks: long black...
View ArticleWhat The Censorship Of ‘Bombay Begums’ Might Mean For The Audience
Censorship is everyone’s favourite pastime when we don’t want to fix systemic issues in society. Along with TV shows and movies, now online streaming content has also been brought under the purview of...
View Articleहमारे देश की सत्तारूढ़ सरकार जन आंदोलनों के खिलाफ क्यों रहती है?
नए कृषि कानूनों के खिलाफ आंदोलन धीरे-धीरे ज़ोर पकड़ता जा रहा है। ना सिर्फ पंजाब से बल्कि देश के अलग-अलग राज्यों से किसान इस आंदोलन का हिस्सा बनने आ रहे हैं। वैश्विक महामारी कोरोना के प्रकोप और दिसंबर की...
View Article“You HAVEN’T Watched Friends?” What’s With All The Attitude?
Popular culture which is massy and has a wide appeal turns toxic when people start imposing it and see it as a criterion for judgement. Read below to find out how criticism on the basis of ones...
View ArticleWhatsApp, Instagram अचानक से करीब 45 मिनट तक रहा डाउन और यूजर्स हुए परेशान
अभी हाल में ही व्हाट्सएप और इंस्टाग्राम शुक्रवार की रात करीब 45 मिनट तक यूजर्स को परेशानी का सामना करना पड़ा। अचानक से रात के करीब 11 बजे कई व्हाट्सएप यूजर्स ने मैसेज भेजने और रिसीव करने में परेशानी की...
View ArticleAbusive And Unabating: The Harsh Reality Of Britney Spears’ Exploitative...
Miss American Dream, Britney Spears, is in jeopardy. Her vulnerability is not the outcome of being threatened with the traditional dangers of being a celebrity. Instead, it is the four walls of her own...
View ArticleFrom War And Jingoism To Love: How Patriotism Has Changed In Bollywood
There was a time when patriotism in Bollywood generally meant a war drama, packed with the emotions of glory and valour and the loud assertion of nationalism that often bordered on jingoism. The trend...
View ArticleAK Vs AK: Why The Lazy Portrayal Of Armed Forces, Anil Kapoor?
Recently, the Indian Air Force (IAF) raised objection to actor Anil Kapoor wearing the wrong uniform and using abusive language in his recent film, AK vs AK. The IAF also urged the streaming platform...
View ArticleHow COVID-19 Has Changed Our Vocabulary And Its Effect On Society
Now here is something to ponder. Did you ever think about how the Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed a flood of words and phrases into our everyday language usage? At a time when our poor selves are...
View ArticleWhy Does The Male Gender Dominate Representation In Children’s Storybooks?
Most of the time, children’s books contain characters that are either fictional or dreamy, which on a surface spells magic with respect to anyone’s imagination of an alternative world. From a prince...
View ArticleThe Doosra In The Cricketing World: Why the ICC Chose The 15-Degree Limit
The Doosra has been called the most controversial delivery in the cricketing world. Its origin lies in a Pakistan-Australia Test series that took place in Sharjah more than two decades ago. To the...
View Article“Go About In The Land And Look”: Visiting Hyderabad Is A Spiritual Experience!
قل سيرو في الارض (Surha Al An Kabut Chapter No 29 Ayah No 19) “Go About In The Land And Look.” Acting upon this Aayah and the fact that untold facts of the world can be learnt by travelling rather than...
View ArticleThe History Of The Golconda Fort
Golconda Fort (initially called Golla Konda, which means Shepherds’ Hill) is a castle and early capital of the Qutb Shahi Dynasty in the western part of Hyderabad, Telangana. The Golconda includes four...
View ArticleWhat The Characters Of Game Of Thrones Taught Me
Despite all the disappointment raised against Game of Thrones’ final season, there is no doubt that it can be considered a magnum opus of our times. The impeccable characterisation and hard-hitting...
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘A Suitable Boy’: How This Tale Of Two Indias Revives The 1993 Book...
For a foreigner reading Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ – it will be a commentary on India, at least the North of India, Calcutta (now Kolkata) included. For an Indian reading the same, it is but a...
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