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Topic: community

SubscriberWrites: Road to thriving individualism goes through community-building efforts

Community systems are not the antithesis of individualism and liberalism, rather they often provide the bedrock to support them.

Communities have played critical role in fighting HIV. That must continue this World AIDS Day

From early 1980s, communities have fought for the rights and needs of those affected. For example, faced with stigma, gay communities in the US provided prevention advice, care and support.

Johann Hari’s ‘Lost Connections’ doesn’t solve all the world’s problems, but it offers a start

Hari uses his own experience of anti-depressant abuse and the discovery of a complicit system of over-prescription in the health industry to ask the one question the doctor failed to — Tell me about your life.

The Padmavati fracas is also about power and privilege

Free speech is important - but we should first ask whose free speech do we always rush to protect?

Indian liberals have also been guilty of protecting Muslim community sentiments

The individual right of an Indian citizen to express their views on Padmavati should take priority over community reactions.

Padmavati highlights a need to democratise the freedom of expression

The problem arises when interpretations are established as “ultimate truth”—closing all possibilities of further excavation of a story like Padmavati.

On Camera

The K in K-Pop is already silent. And that’s OK

Audience data shows there are now more fans outside South Korea than at home. Like hip hop, there’s no reason why K-Pop can’t have a similarly inclusive trajectory while staying true to its core.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.