Alka Dhupkar
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Why India must know periods to understand period leave
India News: On the one hand, there are politicians who call it a topic unworthy of discussion in legislatures. On the other is centuries of cultural conditioning → Read More
Why rising dog bite cases should worry India
India News: Rabies, severe injuries, death. That’s what a dog bite can do. And when children are bitten, the fallout can be even more severe. After a fall during → Read More
What 50 grooms said about missing brides of Maharashtra
India News: Last month, Solapur district saw a curious procession led by 50-odd eligible bachelors looking for wives in order to raise awareness about the state’s → Read More
How a twin tunnel will make Pune-Bengaluru drive shorter, safer
India News: The new Khambatki Ghat twin tube tunnels, expected to be ready by December 2023, will not only shorten travel time between Pune and Satara on NH 48 — → Read More
Is there a new 'political game' afoot in Maharashtra?
India News: So uncharacteristic of the Sena’s chief cannon to suddenly start saying nice things about deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, the man who split his party and → Read More
This 'guruji' won't talk to women not wearing bindi
India News: A regional leader’s refusal to speak with a reporter because she was not wearing a bindi has led to protests in Maharashtra and evoked outrage across → Read More
'If hijab was part of Iran's culture, it wouldn't need enforcing'
Middle East News: Elnaz Sarbar, a women’s rights activist, talks about the restrictions on women in Iran, what’s fuelling the anger on the streets and why the protester → Read More
'Nothing warms my heart like sight of women burning hijab'
India News: Human rights activist and author Yasmine Mohammed, who escaped a forced, abusive marriage to an al-Qaeda operative, on why we all must stand behind Ir → Read More
How not believing in god is also a belief system
India News: In a country like ours, which has a Constitution-mandated secular governance structure, can a state promote atheism? Last week, the Supreme Court soug. → Read More
Why Indian students are forced to risk lives in Ukraine again
India News: All of them had only one answer to that question — ‘we have been left with no option’. The government has failed to help them and none of them can aff → Read More
Murder of humanity', 'terror', 'bigotry'...Muslims on Udaipur horror
The beheading of a tailor in Udaipur has led to a wave of condemnations all across the country. → Read More
Murder of humanity', 'terror', 'bigotry'...Muslims on Udaipur horror
India News: The beheading of a tailor in Udaipur has led to a wave of condemnations all across the country. → Read More
Is the ‘Sena loyalist’ ready to deal the final blow?
India News: The ranks of the rebels have swelled to a point where it now appears a serious threat to the ruling coalition. Also, for the first time the rebel lead → Read More
Why your family elders feel secure, insecure, loved or neglected
India News: A survey covering 22 cities reveals the extent of the challenge India will face when its population of those above 60 will touch 23 crore in 2036 and → Read More
Why school children are struggling to fit into their uniforms
India News: Two years of home-schooling has had an adverse effect on children’s physical well-being. Vendors across the country find that the average size for stu → Read More
4 years ago this village shut its loudspeakers. Here’s how
India News: Barad shows that strong-arm tactics are not needed to curb noise pollution; a simple matter of sitting across a table and discussing can do wonders → Read More
The ‘Hanuman Chalisa couple’ India is talking about
India News: Very few people outside Vidarbha in Maharashtra knew who Ravi and Navneet Rana were till last week. But their arrest after threatening to chant Hanuma → Read More
When your online MBBS class is from a Ukraine war zone
India News: They may have escaped the war, but Ukraine’s fate still mirrors their own. Will their lives ever return to the ‘normal’ that seems so distant and unac → Read More
marathi: How tiny Maharashtra village spawned star YouTube teachers
India News: Long before Covid struck and study from home became a thing, two primary school teachers, Usha Bappasahe Dhere-Karpe and Sunita Shrimantrao Jaybhaye, → Read More
Why this MP wants to legalise same-sex marriage in India
India News: NCP leader Supriya Sule tells TOI+ why she introduced a private member’s bill that seeks to give equal rights of marriage to the LGBTQIA+ community an → Read More