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Marathons Or Music, A Kashmiri Youth Speaks On How Nothing Is ‘Apolitical’ In...
By Aaqib Hussain: On 13th September 2015, Srinagar played host to a marathon organised by BIG FM, a venture of Reliance India Limited, co-sponsored by other organisations that included the Jammu and...
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Bihari DNA, Tantra-Mantra & More: 10 Things That Made This Bihar Election...
By Jai Prakash Ojha for Youth Ki Awaaz: According to the gossip market and based on inputs from local leaders and the media, the first two phases have gone the Grand Alliance (GA) way, while the NDA...
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As I See It, The Uniform Civil Code Does Not Impose The Law Of Majorities On...
By Lekha Vijaya: The question of rolling out a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India has been haunting us ever since independence. We have been sitting on Article 44, a directive principle of state policy...
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15 Years And Still Fighting: Why We Can’t Let Irom Sharmila’s Story Fade Away
By Ravi Nitesh: At present when we are all busy in our daily routine and living our lives normally, there are so many 'abnormal' things going on around us. We point out those in the 'news'. One such...
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Women Voting In Large Numbers In This Bihar Election Is Nothing To Be Happy...
By Praveen Chakravarty and Gautam Mehta, IndiaSpend: "Women voters outnumber men in Bihar polls." "Bihar has the lowest percentage of women voters." While the former is a familiar headline to close...
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Watch YKA ‘Flip The Script’ With #BiharKiBaat: About Bihar’s People, By Its Own
By Manira Chaudhary: These 'missing' stories, if not shared, explored and retold, tend to get snubbed with the passage of time. Bihar today stands boiling in the midst of identity politics owing to...
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Romila Thapar Exposes The Hollowness Of The Idea That India Is A ‘Hindu Rashtra’
By Ankita Mukhopadhyay: Are Hindus Aryans? Is India a Hindu-Rashtra? These were debates that came up in 1970, then in 1990s, and now again in 2014. What's common between all these eras? The fact that...
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2 Years On, This Is How The Muzaffarnagar Riot Survivors Are Living: A YKA...
By Abhishek Jha for Youth Ki Awaaz: It is often seen, in instances of caste-based or communal violence, that the instigators like to offer an 'action-reaction' theory. Not only does this idea of...
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Grand Alliance Or Brand Modi? Bihar Elections Leave Experts Guessing
By Jai Prakash Ojha for Youth Ki Awaaz: As most of us are aware by now, the [envoke_twitter_link]exit polls have failed to predict a clear winner in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly...
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20 Million Youth Will Be Voting In This Bihar Election. Will It Be For “Acche...
By Jai Prakash Ojha for Youth Ki Awaaz: What a cliffhanger of a contest this Bihar Elections 2015 is turning out to be as ground reports from various constituencies and surveys carried out by some...
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Declassifying Netaji’s Archives: Government Transparency Or Just A Clever Move?
By Annesha Ghosh: On September 18, the West Bengal government declassified all the 64 files in the custody of the state government. The released documents include 8 DVDs of over 1200 pages, many of...
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#BiharResults Explained: 5 Reasons Why The Modi Wave Crashed In The Elections
By Abhishek Waghmare, IndiaSpend.com: Five factors – the sway of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, high voter turnout, vote swing against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), declining vote share of the BJP...
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What All Went Wrong For The BJP In This Bihar Election, 2015
By Jai Prakash Ojha for Youth Ki Awaaz: [envoke_twitter_link]What went wrong for the BJP in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2015?[/envoke_twitter_link] A party that seemed well ahead of the Grand...
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Mr. Modi, As A Kashmiri, Here’s Why I Think Your Money Won’t Solve Our...
By Sofi Ahsan: Narendra Modi's visit to Kashmir on Saturday, 7th November yet again proved how myopic and ignorant the leadership in Delhi is when it comes to Kashmir and its turbulent politics. The...
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A Woman Candidate Wins An Election…And Then What?
By Khabar Lahariya: Editor’s Note: As part of Youth Ki Awaaz and Khabar Lahariya's collaboration, we bring to you this story from the hinterlands of the country's largest state - Uttar Pradesh. Read...
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When The Army Tried Teaching ‘Kashmiriyat’ To The Kashmiri Youth In 2012: An...
By Abid Baba: One sunny morning in the fall of 2012, much to the annoyance of all and sundry, a posse of military personnel welcomed the students of Government Degree College, Kashmir located in the...
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“By Using The Word ‘Tolerance’, Those Protesting Have Played Into The Hands...
By Abhishek Jha: There was an interesting development this month in the debate over tolerance. Taking on the protests by writers, activists, filmmakers, and others, Arun Jaitley ended his Facebook...
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In 1990, When Lalu Yadav Tried To Stop LK Advani’s Rath Yatra From Bringing...
By YKA Staff: In October of 1990, L.K.Advani traversed across India in a chariot gathering momentum and followers to construct a temple in Ayodhya where the 16th century Babri mosque exists. This...
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Awaaz Network Explains Why They Used The Nazi Swastika To Protest Against PM...
By Awaaz Network: Editor's note: Awaaz Network, which advocates for religious tolerance in South Asia and the UK, projected an image on the Palace of Westminster in protest of P.M. Modi's visit to...
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The Sikhs Continue To Be Oppressed, But Is Khalistan The Solution To Counter...
By Nikita Azad: In September this year, Akal Takht, the highest temporal authority of Sikhs pardoned Dera Sirsa Head, Gurmeet Ram Rahim for the 2007 blasphemy case. In 2007, he had imitated the tenth...
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