किसानों की हालत पहले ही गंभीर है। ऐसे में यदि घर के इकलौते कमानेवाले हाथ ही उखड जाए तो उस परिवार की महिला के हाल की कल्पना की जा सकती है। पूरा परिवार हाशिये पर आकर टूट-बिखर जाता है। ऐसे में फिर से घाटे का सौदा साबित हुई खेती की ओर मुडने का विचार ही मन को नहीं छूता। परंतु चंद्रपुर तहसिल के घुग्घूस समिपस्थ वेंडली गांव की एक किसान की विधवा ने इस मिथक को तोड कर नयी मिसाल पेश की … [Read more...]
Murder On The Streets Of Social Media! First Swathi, Now Vinupriya, Who’s Next?
Recently you all must have gone through news with heading “A 21 year old girl commits suicide when her morphed photographs appeared on Facebook”. Everyone read this like any ordinary news. Are you too one of them? Do you think it is something to be forgotten in an era when even a school going kid is very active on social media? Remember, every piece of news is ordinary until it … [Read more...]
Scarring Myself With Blades To Endless Drugs, I Had A Lot. And My Story Ain’t Over Yet!
It was back in the mid of Class 12 when I was first diagnosed with it. Amongst multiple pressures like parental, peer and personal, I could never understand when did I start confusing pain as a means of escape, or confused a permanent trough in my mood as a phase of ‘intolerable mood swing’. I used to stay awake till 4:00 AM in the night, trying to find out a place on my … [Read more...]
He Was First A Son To A Mother & Then A Dalit Or A OBC. Can’t We Understand That?
"I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. At last, this is the only letter I am getting to write...Our feelings are second handed. Our love is constructed. Our beliefs colored. Our originality valid through artificial art. It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt. The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest … [Read more...]
3000 Farmers Have Committed Suicide In The Last 3 Years. It Is No Longer A Breaking News!
Farmer suicides - I fail at finding the point from where to begin on the topic. Countless newspaper columns, editorials and news hour debates have been constantly raising the alarm bells and rotating around the rising number of farmer suicides in India. Farmer suicides have become a part of everyday parlance and so common an occurrence that it fails to ascertain the gravity of … [Read more...]
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