Opinion
February 26, 2020
Normalizing ‘Dowry’ in Manipur in the Name of Custom
Lifestyle
February 22, 2020
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For those who don’t know Ashok Swain– he is an Indian-born academic and professor of peace and conflict research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. He completed his M.Phil and Ph.D from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. In 2017, he was appointed as the UNESCO Chair of International Water Co-operation and became the first UNESCO Chair of Uppsala University. He is a strong critic of the Modi Government and can be called one of the…
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1949 was a crucial year for India. Constitution was still in making. India had just freed from the British’s yoke. Integrating the princely states were still going on amidst all the difficulties. One biggest challenge was the State of Jammu & Kashmir(J&K) and the culturally different region of Ladakh which was incorporated as part of J&K. In what can be considered as one of the most important letters from Ladakh region, the then President of…
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This summer lakhs of students will be graduating from every nook and corner of the country. Some of the students who have been lucky to be a part of top elite universities/institutes have already got jobs through campus recruitments. And there are institutes that do not have arrangements for campus placement. These students look for their career options on their own. Naukri.com have become redundant with too many irrelevant jobs alerts. Indeed have also become…
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Dress Codes at Workplace have been a problem for both men and women across the globe. But women have been suffering under the ‘grooming policy’ followed by many companies. At many workplaces, women are asked to wear traditional clothes, at some places women are asked to wear a dress with high heels (which also comes with a mandatory length of the high heels – 2 to 4 inch). In Japan, wearing high heels has been…
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Its been more than about seven decades when Simone de Beauvoir wrote the masterpiece ‘The Second Sex’. It talked about the treatment of women throughout the history. In these seven decades, much have changed and with a number of feminist movements, the states have adopted policies to empower women. In India, Article 15(3) of the Constitution of India provided the state the power to make any special provisions for women and children. Therefore, we have…