[First published in YouthKiAwaaz] One Small Voice is the debut novel of Santanu Bhattacharya. The ‘one small voice’ is the voice of Shubankar “Shabby” Trivedi, who grew up in a typical upper caste, (self-defined) middle-class household in a small town in northern India. In the newly liberalising India, the greatest…

[Written for YouthKiAwaaz] The AQI in Delhi has been hovering between ‘unhealthy’ and ‘hazardous’ for nearly a week. Schools have shifted to the online mode, there are restrictions on outdoor activities, hospitals are reporting a sharp uptick in the number of patients with respiratory-related ailments and newsrooms are running programmes…

WE WON!!! Two simple words. But even 24 hours after the NGT ruled in our favour, the enormity of what we accomplished is yet to sink in. How can people win against the system? “We are just a motley group of people. How can we expect to take on the System”…

[First published in YouthKiAwaaz] It all began with Adam. Doesn’t it always? We met at a literary translation studies conference at Senate House, and it was through him that I first learned of the Centre. Or….no, wait. Actually, pause. Rewind. I should probably start with why I was at the conference in the first…

[First published in Women’s Web] Anjali joined an investment bank after completing her MBA. She was living in a shared flat with two other women. They all worked hard and partied harder. This was the life she had dreamt of since her parents enrolled her in the IIT coaching classes…

We have all heard about Dr. Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian woman to cross the Atlantic and to study medicine at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Married off to a widower many years a senior, she was 12 or 14 when she gave birth to a son who died…

“There are still large differences between women and men in terms of what they do, how they’re remunerated and so on. And the question is, why is this the case? And that’s what the work is about.” - Claudia Goldin Claudia Goldin became the third woman, after Elinor Ostrom and…

Sunaina Joshi is a reporter with a news channel covering urban centric health related issues, but her heart is with the great outdoors and she keeps submitting proposal after proposal for reporting on wildlife and environmental related issues. She gets a great opportunity when her news channel is commissioned to…

“As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together”…