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The Change Is Us

12 Year Old Girls Get Their Eyebrows Shaped These Days – Where Are They Headed?

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“Happy Birthday to you” chortled a bunch of girls merrily, as I entered into a restaurant located in the very heart of the city of Guwahati. As I sat down on my table, just opposite to the girls, I was thunderstruck. All the girls were hardly aged 12-13 years and all of them were dressed in miniskirts, hot shorts, high heels. And when I glanced at their faces, I felt short for … [Read more...]

“SUNDIE” Or “SUNDAY”? Education Offered In Govt. Schools By Teachers Who Rarely Come

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“S-U-N-D-I-E”.  The Madam clad in an orange sari wrote these alphabets and there was a joyous echo of children uttering these alphabets unanimously. And the word was “S-U-N-D-A-Y”. I happened to visit the local government school in my locality for my Aadhar Card issue and it was then that a peek inside one of the classrooms gave me an all new spelling of the first day of the … [Read more...]

“My Father Asked Me To Remove My Pants, And Then Went To Get Some Oil,” This Is How It Started.

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The purest relationship which perhaps exists in today’s world is that between a parent and a kid. In majority of the cases, both are deeply in love with each other. But this is not one of those cases. This story is about Juli and what her father did to her. It takes a lot of courage and heart to come up and discuss something as personal as this. And that is what blew me … [Read more...]

The Story Of A 7 Year Boy Who Was Abandoned By His Parents Proves That Humanity Still Exists

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Can a person be more hapless than the one being abandoned by his/her own parents? An involuntary response to this question would be ‘No’. But, here, I beseech you to re-evaluate your answer for once. By discussing a real incident, I do not expect you to transfigure your answer into a ‘Yes’, but rather understand that why the answer to the question can’t be a ‘No’. In India, … [Read more...]