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Is anyone else reading your Tinder messages in India?

“How does privacy matter? Nobody is reading my messages and I am making the choice to put these messages out there on social media platform,” asks P, my friend  who seems to finally have cracked the Tinder Emojis. Every  time I talk about privacy, people ask me what is there to hide? Every time I […]

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Abortion in Pandemic: Reality Check at the end of 2020

2020 was the Annus Horribilis. The COVID-19 pandemic shook the foundations of our world. When many world leaders equated the preparations to tackle the pandemic to a war footing and asked the public to make collective sacrifices, little did we all delve into those exaggerated declarations from the leaders to sift through and analyze how […]

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Adolescent Sexuality: the Age of Raging Hormones and Punishments?

Alice* was 17 years old when she discovered that she was pregnant. She was in a steady relationship and had a sexual relationship with her boyfriend. Pregnancy was the least bit of concern for Alice and her guy amidst their day to day lives of being a teenager. However, on discovering the pregnancy, both their […]

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Gendered Violence: Not Your “Circus”? Not Your “Monkeys”?

For many, gendered violence is a shocking story that they read in newspapers, a gut wrenching event that they watched in a documentary, a disturbing clip that is widely shared on platforms like Facebook. Many get affected by what they read and what they see, there is anger, sadness that how can this continue to […]

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Podcast: What is pleasure for you – Tanzila Khan

Has anyone ever asked you what is pleasure for you? Tanzila Khan gets personal with Aisha Lovely George and shares her stories on this podcast. She tries to reclaim the word “pleasure ” from the sexual connotation. For her it’s success. Tanzila discusses her idea of body, idea of sexual fantasy and what all can be done […]

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Financial inclusion for the disabled in India: demonetisation and beyond #makeyourcityinclusive

In the life of a disabled bank employee on the day of the demonetisation Prem Kumar*, 55 years old, disabled bank clerk with polio, Central Office of a nationalised bank in Chennai November 9, 2016, 9.30AM: Prem Kumar has Rs. 70 in his wallet enough to take him to his office by auto-rickshaw. He always withdraws […]

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Do people living with HIV have a right to protect their health data?

“Consequently, as new cases brought new issues and problems before the Court, the content of the right to privacy has found elaboration in these diverse contexts. These would include telephone tapping (PUCL), prior restraints on publication of material on a death row convict (Rajagopal), inspection and search of confidential documents involving the banker – customer […]

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Cracking HIV and COVID-19 code

I am living with HIV, how might I forestall COVID-19? This is rising stress during COVID-19 dread. Individuals living with HIV who have not achieved viral suppression through antiretroviral treatment may have a compromised immune system that leaves them vulnerable to opportunistic infections and further disease progression. At present, there is no evidence to suggest […]

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भारत में मेडिकल गर्भसमापन के लिए प्रक्रिया और लागत क्या है?

क्या हमें भारत में चिकित्सा गर्भसमापन के लिए ज्यादा पैसे का भुगतान करना होगा? भारत में गर्भावस्था की चिकित्सय समाप्ति सिर्फ कुछ शर्तों के तहत कानूनी है जिसकी अनुमति किसी पंजीकृत मेडिकल प्रैक्टिशनर द्वारा दी गयी हो। गर्भसमापन की प्रक्रिया को समझना हमारे लिए महत्वपूर्ण है। गर्भसमापन या जो मेडिकल टर्मिनेशन ऑफ प्रेगनेंसी (एम0टी0पी0) के […]

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क्या भारत में गर्भसमापन कानूनी है?

हाँ। और हां, यह कई विकसित देशों के विपरीत है जहां गर्भसमापन एक विवादास्पद विषय है जिसमें अक्सर राजनीतिक विचारधाराएं शामिल होती हैं। गर्भावस्था की चिकित्सय समाप्ति अधिनियम (मेडिकल टर्मिनेशन ऑफ प्रेग्नेंसी एम0टी0पी0) अधिनियम 1971 गर्भधारण के 20 सप्ताह तक गर्भावस्था की (एम0टी0पी0) की चिकित्सय समाप्ति की अनुमति देता है। यहाँ आपको क्या पता होना […]