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Hey, it's still a man's world
The prejudice that women face is still present. Only, it has learnt to hide itself better


Why hustle us into marriage?
When boys of our age are still talking about their careers and laughing at relationships, why we girls have to face the prospect of marriage?

Pray, is this woman power at all?
I watch Miss Universe every year and every year I try to figure out why anyone would combine swimsuit modelling with world peace. It's like adding apples and oranges.Quite frankly, this is a competition where size zero – or even ...

Men of the world, reverse your role
Few people outside academic circles may have heard about Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. In 1905, she wrote a short story ‘Sultana's Dream', which is probably the first piece of science fiction writing in India and perhaps the first by a ...

The soldier needs the nation's attention
India today exists in a seriously embattled security environment, more than ever in the last 63 years, with external military threats and the difficult situation in Kashmir, besides the Naxalite movement having acquired dangerously devious ...

Can't women have their space?
It was around 8 p.m. when I got down from the bus and was walking home. A guy, who was walking along with me, passed vulgar comments at my dress. I was wearing a salwar with dupatta. I couldn't talk back because I was tired after a day's work. ...

Apology
We regret to say that the article “Tackling the canker called ragging” (“Open Page”, August 22, 2010) by Bibhakar Saha had large portions in the text amounting to plagiarism. It was largely based on an article ...



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