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A Rape Occurs Every 20 Minutes In India, But What Has The State Done About It?
By Lipi Mehta: On September 17, 2014, I read something that filled me with hope. A tweet from the Press Information Bureau of India stating that Maneka Gandhi, Minister of Women and Child Development,...
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Why We Shouldn’t Throw Around The Word Rape To Describe Anything
By Lipi Mehta: “Saw a car on the side of the road today. You should have seen it; it was raped”, a friend remarked. No it wasn’t; there had been an accident. However, even if we assume for a second...
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It’s A Sanitary Napkin, Not A Time Bomb: The Shaming Needs To Stop, Period
By Lipi Mehta: In terms of size, Terminal 3 of Delhi’s airport could well parade as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. There are so many ups and downs, lengths and breadths, and hardly any time to stop...
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Dear Dabur, Your Patriarchal New Ad Is The Reason I Won’t Be Buying Your Honey
By Lipi Mehta: As a child, I often asked my mother if the necklace she was wearing was her mangalsutra. None of the necklaces she owned resembled the black and gold mangalsutras I had seen others...
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J.K. Rowling Changed My Life With Harry Potter, Now She’s Kicking Ass On...
By Lipi Mehta: 15 years ago, my sister handed me a book with a red cover which had a train and a bespectacled boy on it. The title read, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone'. She put it in my...
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Don’t Kiss For Long! Censor Board Tells James Bond, And Twitter Gives A...
By Lipi Mehta: Come October 20, India will get to see 'Spectre', but with two kissing scenes "cut by 50%" and words like 'fuck' and 'asshole' removed, courtesy the Indian Censor Board. These cuts...
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When A Child Tells You They’ve Been Sexually Abused, How You React Next...
By Lipi Mehta: The first time my parents and I spoke about child sexual abuse, I was 18. At that time, I honestly wondered what had taken us so long to have this conversation. Well, just like...
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10 Highlights From Aamir Khan’s Interview That’s Created A Social Media Storm
By Lipi Mehta: Editor's Note: On 23rd November, 2015, at the Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2015, actor Aamir Khan expressed his concern around the rising cases of intolerance in...
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‘Officially A Homophobic Country’ Cries Twitter After Parliament Rejects Bill...
By Lipi Mehta: [envoke_twitter_link]Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a discriminatory, archaic law[/envoke_twitter_link] that the British instituted in 1860, that criminalises all...
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We Asked You How India Treats Women And Here’s What You Said
By Lipi Mehta: One of the starkest observations of growing up in India is seeing how differently young girls and young boys are treated. Not just in our behaviours, but in our language and even in...
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The Answers To These 3 Questions Say So Much About What Society Thinks Of...
By Lipi Mehta: Growing up in India, I was no stranger to how my role was fixed in society as that of 'being a girl'. I was expected to have long hair and dress in a certain way and I remember how...
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[Y]Ral: This Moroccan Woman’s Response To The Man Who Pinches Her Bottom Is...
By Lipi Mehta: [envoke_twitter_link]A man pinched a woman's bottom on a street in Morocco and oh, she so did not take it lying down[/envoke_twitter_link]. She turned around and in one clean punch,...
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From Dadri To Paris And Chennai: 21 Moments That Defined 2015
By Lipi Mehta: [envoke_twitter_link]2015 was an iconic year for politics, gender and equal representation[/envoke_twitter_link]. It was also momentous because of the way we as a people reacted to...
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Out With Sexist Hindi Music, Check Out The #FeministBollySongs Twitter Is...
By Lipi Mehta: Earlier today, Twitter user Imaan Sheikh took up a very important job. She started fixing patriarchal and sexist lyrics and sentiments in Bollywood songs with witty, powerful feminist...
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This Christmas, A Short-Film With A Sweet Twist That’ll Bring You Some...
By Lipi Mehta: "Santa ji, why is my name not on your list?" asks a 30-year-old frustrated employee but gets silence as a response. It's Christmas and his day is stuck on Excel sheets, the occasional...
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Watch How One Man Single-Handedly Turned A 1360 Acre Barren Land Into A...
By Lipi Mehta: [envoke_twitter_link]An area that used to be a barren piece of land 30 years ago is now a 1360 acre forest[/envoke_twitter_link], home to 5 royal Bengal tigers and the migratory route...
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Watch Artist Vishal Dadlani Take Down Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’ In Under 2...
Please share this video extensively. I try to explain, in Hindi, why #FreeBasics is a sham, and is in fact, against #NetNeutrality.I think it's crucial that this discussion go beyond just the...
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Watch Priyanka Chopra Call Out Wage Inequality As She Embraces Feminism
By Lipi Mehta: [envoke_twitter_link]Priyanka Chopra just embraced the word feminist[/envoke_twitter_link]. Oh yes, she did. In an interview about her show Quantico in September 2015, she had said it...
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6 Indian Ads That Smashed Stereotypes, And 6 That Reinforced Them In 2015
By Lipi Mehta: [envoke_twitter_link]Was 2015 the year when ads broke stereotypes or did they make us groan even more?[/envoke_twitter_link] Well, equal parts of both, I’d say. TV and print ads...
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Chetan Bhagat Announced His New Book, And Twitter Responded In The Most...
By Lipi Mehta: Chetan Bhagat just announced his 8th book. Yup, this Diwali, you’ll have more to celebrate (or not, depending on what side of the Chetan line you fall on). But that’s not the biggest...
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