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In Delhi’s Sangam Vihar, teenage girls live and dream football. Even if it means taunts

Manisha Mondal -
In Sangam Vihar, the girls have cleaned a trash-dumping ground to make a football field. And they won’t take no for an answer.

Pakistan is standing up for Karnataka girls. Just not Ahmadiyas, Hindus, Christians

Naila Inayat -
Pakistan will have ‘Solidarity Day with Daughters of Hind’ this week, but keep on ignoring the girls in Afghanistan.

4,000 girls go missing in Bengal each year. Floods, evictions, Ganga have their own role

Parimal Bhattacharya -
In ‘Field Notes from a Waterborne Land’, Parimal Bhattacharya writes about impact of natural calamities on school dropouts in Bengal, especially girls.

Introducing pants for girls not enough, Indian schools need to change mindset

Olipriya Roy -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

What’s keeping girls away from STEM? Childhood Stereotypes

Laura Scholes -
A survey of 332 school students found 7- and 8-year-old children have already made up their minds about what jobs they want in the future.

Where are the gutsy girls of Indian science? They could help us against next pandemic

Eric Falt -
Indian girls need the right role models and advice from teachers. Because science needs them right now.

Reduced to tears by an Indian aunty’s pesky questions? Here’s how you can fight back

Harnidh Kaur -
Indian aunties don’t understand the concept of emotional autonomy and a youngster’s right to privacy.

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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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