Tag: Featured
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Bodies For Growth: From Fields To Offices, How Climate Change Is Forcing Indian Women To Pay With Their Health

India’s climate response, embodied in various national policies, often overlooks the subtle and cumulative impacts of climate stress on women’s health, particularly reproductive health. While substantial efforts have been made to enhance climate governance, the focus has predominantly been on acute events and tangible losses, sidelining the gradual accumulation of stress experienced by women. This…
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Living With The Violence: What “Reconciliation” Really Means In Post-Conflict Communities

In the aftermath of conflict, reconciliation is often the first word to arrive and the last to be questioned. It appears in UN resolutions, donor recovery frameworks, and national transition plans as both a moral necessity and a technical solution, the social mechanism through which societies are expected to move forward once armed violence subsides.…
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Why Indian Truck Drivers Are Carriers Of Economy & HIV/AIDS

An unusual fog seems to wrap around a local tea stall on Delhi-Chandigarh Highway or what is also famously known as the Grand Trunk Road. One of the oldest cross-nation highways that has its end in Afghanistan. As soon as one enters the stall and makes their way to the back of it, a foul…
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Dropping The Olive Branch From the Hand: Who Killed Yasser Arafat?

Under the ever-tightening grip of the Israeli forces that had bombed and raided his offices several times since 2002, Yasser Arafat suddenly fell ill at the dining table and thus started the biggest mystery of the modern-day Middle East. With more than seven countries involved in this mystery, the setting is no less than a…
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Uterus For Money: India’s Medical Scandal Forcing Poor Women To Give Up Wombs

Menstruation is always considered a taboo in India and this problematic issue continues as a large majority of the women population who belong to poor class families, have no educational status and are forced to make choices under constraints that have a long-term irreversible impact on their health and lives. Poor women in India, who…
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No Day Shall Erase You: Unknown Stories of September 11 2001 Attacks

was a watershed moment in the history of the world.
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The Diva On Roads: India’s Love with Premier Padmini

Fiat 1100- D (Delight) or Pad or Padmini, or Bombay’s Kalli-Peeli is emblematic of Indian enterprises that stood firm on their legs during an era of strict licensing and state control. Almost 4-decades long journey of Padmini from the 1960s made it synonymous with a family luxury car in the yesteryears. Today, well remembered as…
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Suvarnabhumi: Tracing the Impact of Mahabharata on South East Asian Countries

The Mahabharata is the cornerstone of South Asian civilizations. It happened and was recorded in the Indian mainland of the time but has a far-reaching impact. Through this FaultLines article, explore South Asia from the eyes of The Mahabharata.
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Collaboration Horizontale: Shaving Heads of French Women Who Romantically Collaborated with Nazis

June 6, 1944, is a significant date in the events that led to the end of the Second World War as the Allied forces comprising of the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain landed on Normandy Beach to liberate France from the German Nazi rule. Village after village, town after town, city after city…
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: He Who Chose Shadow

Philip Mountbatten married then-princess Elizabeth in 1947 and their marriage became the longest royal union in the history. Just as the Queen is the longest-serving monarch, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh was the longest-serving Royal Consort in British history. He did not have any role in his wife’s official duties, but he provided her…