A translation of a Hindi article by Yogendra Yadav. The original can be accessed here. After the Bihar election results, many colleagues asked me :- what is the point of contesting elections now? If in every election, ultimately, the BJP is made to win and the opposition is completely wiped out, then what is the […]
Yogendra Yadav wrote this piece in Hindi. We carry a simple translation for our readers. The fundamental lie in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list has been caught. This lie was exposed by a document that the Election Commission had been hiding for the past three months. This document is the final […]
It’s 2 AM, and you feel like you’re dragging around a sack of bricks. Your body is begging for rest, but you find yourself scrolling mindlessly on your phone. You’re not even looking at anything that matters—just flicking through social media posts, glancing at Netflix shows that you’ll probably never actually finish, or sending late-night […]
I didn’t think this would stay with me, honestly. I thought I’d just go, take notes, maybe write something about an NGO, and be done with it. But then, I met Sister Dorothy Fernandes — and everything shifted a little. She wasn’t trying to impress me. No long speeches. No big, dramatic talk about “impact.” […]
Manisha Thapa, a young and dedicated air hostess from Bihar, was among the many lives lost in the devastating crash of Air India flight AI-171, which went down shortly after departing from Ahmedabad on Thursday. A native of Patna with ancestral roots in Biratnagar , Nepal, Manisha was on active duty as a cabin crew […]
In India, where central and state governments often proclaim their commitment to human rights and the upliftment of marginalised communities, the grim reality tells a different story. The harrowing case of an 11-year-old Dalit girl, brutally raped and left to die after hours of waiting in an ambulance, lays bare the systemic failures that plague […]
पटना के सेंट जेवियर्स कॉलेज ऑफ मैनेजमेंट एंड टेक्नोलॉजी में एक बहुत अच्छा मीडिया साक्षरता सेमिनार भइल। ई सेमिनार मिनती चक्लनविस जी कइलें, जे फैक्टशाला यूनिवर्सिटी नेटवर्क के तरफ से आइल रहली। ई नेटवर्क डेटाLEADS शुरू कइलस, जे गूगल न्यूज इनिशिएटिव के साथ मिलके काम करेला। ई सेमिनार में छात्र लोग आ जवान पेशेवर लोग […]
In an era of information overload, media literacy is not just a skill but a necessity. A highly insightful Media Literacy Seminar was conducted on Saturday (March 22) at St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology, Patna, by Ms. Minati Chaklanavis on behalf of the FactShala University Network. This network is an initiative led by […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about sleep since March 14, which was World Sleep Day. That day was also Holi, a festival in India, a boisterous celebration, where people celebrate with colours and music. I was woken up early by loud music from the neighbours’ apartment, which made me grumble about how noisy Bihar (a […]
बिहार में क्या हो रहा है? एक्सीडेंट से मौत की खबरें और हत्या तथा अन्य को खबरें , रास्ते चलते छीना झपटी , घर में चोरी, मॉब लिंचिंग, गुंडागर्दी की खबरें पहले से ज्यादा आ रहे हैं। हालांकि अन्य गतिविधियां भी तेज है और लोग अभी अपराधियों के डर के आगे घर में घुस नहीं […]
The scariest horror stories are not on Netflix and the multiplexes, they’re lurking outside our very houses, in the shadows. Have you heard of the ‘fake cancer drug racket’, busted about 3 months ago? It must have been drowned out with all the ‘election news’ which hogged prime time. Yesterday, (July 17), three months after […]
Five days. For five days, in the midst of a searing June heatwave, an oasis appeared in this cultural Kalahari, bringing a modicum of animation to the listless and drooping culture-vultures parked on the bare bones of a surreal Mowgli landscape. Their “What ya wanna do?” “I dunno, what ya wanna do?” was cut short […]
