Prisoners, right from the very beginning, are at a rather vulnerable position. The abuse of power, the delirious prison environment and compounded legislations have proven to act as a deterrent for successful reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners. However, there are few groups that tend to be in a particularly vulnerable…

A MICRO ACCOUNT The mere recapitulation of the last 6 months dawns upon me with a degree of self-criticism. A Delhi University student who also happens to be a theatre society student is never free. This is the most modest way of describing my two years in college. Classes from…

The lockdown is on for the next 20 days. Most of us are either sifting through the same social media applications all the time or are simply beneath the bed sheets, sleeping the hours away. While being unproductive couch potatoes is probably the best choice for most of us, I…

A pseudo-fiction short story My flight landed at 10 pm. I was supposed to be home at 10. Winters are never easy when it comes to flying. I had suspected the possibility of the flight getting delayed but there are days when you do not want to believe your instincts…

On the last Friday morning of May, thousands of residents of Shakurbasti slum woke up to the sound of the whirring of bulldozers and falling roofs and walls of their shacks. Within a few minutes, everything was razed to the ground. …

Sudan is amidst a major uprising which has turned violent giving rise to a huge humanitarian crisis which has lead to a continued chaos and a lot of bloodshed. Security forces have killed more than a 500 people while about 700 are injured. At least, 19 children are reported dead…

How to achieve Goal for ‘Zero Hunger’ in Conflict-ridden nations like Yemen Entering its fifth year of war, Yemen is now ridden with a series of issues ranging from unemployment to Human rights breach. …

THE YEMEN CRISIS EXPLAINED HISTORY Yemen has rarely been under the rule of a single government. For most of it’s history, it was split into Northern Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and Southern People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) which were later unified in 1990. The period prior to the unification…

AN ANTI-KASHMIR NARRATIVE, YET AGAIN The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan seems like an eternal tussle for an aim lost, forgotten and manipulated from the very roots. While a large chunk of our population doesn’t have the faint idea as to why a conflict exists in the first place…