Tag: Humanity
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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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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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Turning 6 Stronger: A Look Back At Last One Year of FaultLines
“Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I’ve been uncomfortable looking back.”- Paul Harvey. FaultLines looks back at six years of existence and first year of its revamped avatar, here is the story of this blog to you. 6 years, 70 plus articles, 1900 subscribers worldide-and growing stronger. Sprung, stumbled, run, fallen, rolled over,…
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The Saas-Bahu Saga: Story of reluctant Gandhi ladies who kept Congress going
“Sonia nahi ye aandhi hai, Doosri Indira Gandhi hai!”, through this jingle the Congress tried to popularize Sonia Gandhi when she entered politics and held the helm of the Congress party. The Saas-Bahu saga of Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi who kept Congress going when the seat of power looked far and dark. An Indira…
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The Tashkent Mystery: Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Death and the Subhas Chandra Bose Angle
India, in the 1960s just 13 years into its independence was beamingly looking at its future-global partners and strategic allies that would help her hold its land against adversaries like China and Pakistan. Lal Bahadur Shastri took the top seat in the Parliament in 1965. He was a dynamic leader, having grown in the…
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