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Dec 12, 2022

Why IT jobs are precarious

Recently many Information technology-based companies including Meta, Twitter, Byju’s, Unacademy among others announced layoffs. Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks to  Aabid Firdausi, a Ph.D. scholar in Sociology at...

23 mins

Dec 08, 2022

How a collective got back jobs of more than 100 IT employees

In November 2022, Edtech firm Byju's announced 2500 layoffs. However, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala after intervention by a welfare organization called Pratidhwani, Byju restored about 150 jobs of those in Thir...

24 mins

Dec 01, 2022

How HIV Intervention Is Failing LGBTQ Youth

We have come a long way since the AIDS epidemic of the 80’s and 90’s. Some of the groups that the HIV intervention programs focused on are men having sex with men and transgender women. In fact that is how the...

32 mins

Nov 30, 2022

How can the state and community take charge of the rising dog menace?

In a complaint from a woman who suffered severe injuries after a pit bull attacked her, a Gurugram district consumer forum banned 11 foreign breeds of dogs in its district. Several cases related to street dogs...

39 mins

Nov 28, 2022

In our opinion: What EWS judgement means for India's reservation policy

The Supreme Court ruled that 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in the General category is constitutional. In this episode of In Our Opinion, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks with journalist Tejas...

53 mins

Nov 23, 2022

Here's why India loves Kdrama

The current boom of K-dramas in India has been in the works for decades. First, it spread in the North Eastern part of India. Then we saw it on Zee Zindagi. And finally, during the pandemic, the frenzy took ove...

51 mins

Nov 17, 2022

Delhi murder case- The endemic of intimate partner violence

Recently, the Delhi Police arrested Aftab Poonawala for allegedly killing his live-in partner, Shradda Walker. As is often in the case of such murders, there was history of domestic violence. Shraddha allegedly...

48 mins

Oct 31, 2022

India’s demand for blood comes the most from those with nutritional anaemia

October 1 was National Voluntary Blood Donation Day. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare organised a massive drive- #RaktdaanAmritMahotsav- starting from September 17 - which is Prime Minister Narendra Mo...

34 mins

Oct 31, 2022

Poor implementation of NREGA worsens India’s hunger crisis

The Global Hunger Index 2022 ranks India at 107 among 121 countries. Afghanistan is the only country in South Asia that performs worse than India on the index. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization...

30 mins

Oct 30, 2022

This all female band from Dehradun is shattering stereotypes

Womeniya, an all female music band from Dehradun is a power packed combination of four women musicians who have fought against set traditions of society and family; and have not hesitated to take risks to reali...

25 mins