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Monday, October 7, 2024

PoV

India’s workplaces need to understand menstruation better. Period

Offices that acknowledge women's periods create equitable workplaces, ones that create a safe space for women in the profession.

Don’t question Sikhs helping Muslims. We know what hate is and does

Sikhs were helping out Muslims affected in Delhi riots and in Shaheen Bagh because if history has taught us anything, it is to never repeat it.

On Google Pay, India is paying and playing — the good old lottery game

G-Pay has brought back the nostalgia associated with scratch cards. It makes you mimic the motion of scratching via swiping.

Diljit Dosanjh is an online stalker of white women – from Kylie Jenner to Ivanka Trump

Most laugh off the Punjabi ‘munda’ and his comments on women’s photos. But look closely, there is a dangerous pattern to Diljit Dosanjh’s behaviour.

We are now adulting without friends because social media algorithms have taken over

If adulting means remaining trapped in our silos with our gadgets all the time, then we need to perhaps redefine it — as an ability to be complete in oneself.

Rumour has it that riots are breaking out in your neighbourhood. What would you do?

Just this Sunday on Delhi streets, the Bharat Mata Ki Jai chants – an otherwise innocuous patriotic slogan – produced a menacing web of rumours.

India’s namaste is ready to make a world comeback due to coronavirus

After Gandhi and yoga, namaste must become India’s next main export. In the age of pandemics and novel coronaviruses, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Your ripped jeans aren’t cheap. Fast fashion costs a lot and the planet is paying the price

In Europe, to counter fast fashion consumption, many only buy vintage or second-hand clothes from flea markets and second-hand stores.

‘Better to be TikTok-er than a rioter’ – Delhi violence has divided TikTok users

When CAA-NRC violence broke out, TikTok users put up a show of unity. Now they are asking why Delhi is rioting if it gets free electricity and water.

Indians talking mental health aren’t ‘millennial snowflakes’. Time for bosses to catch up

Of the 11 lakh registered companies in India, only 1,000 have a structured Employees Assistance Programme for mental health. The rest probably think it’s a fad.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?