Recently, the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississipi have mandated a law that bans abortion and makes the procedure a felony, sentencing a person up to ninety-nine years of prison time. These states have prohibited abortion, procuring to the right to live for a fetus. While some laws ban abortion after a heartbeat can be… Continue reading Ban on Abortion Law: Whose priority?
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Elections 2019: India Awaits the Outcome
Bisruta Chowdhury | Staff Blogger The judgment day for elections 2019 is just hours away as the Election Commission of India will start counting votes at 8 am on May 23. The Lok Sabha elections garnered the highest voter turnout with 67.11 % in 542 constituencies. This is the highest voter turnout since the 2014… Continue reading Elections 2019: India Awaits the Outcome
The Biggest Red Flag for the Future of Humanity
The future of humanity is at risk. Now, more than ever. Years of our negligence, adamance and ignorance have brought us here. If we have any hope of saving this planet, saving ourselves, we must act now. As of May 13th 2019, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was found to be 415ppm. This… Continue reading The Biggest Red Flag for the Future of Humanity
The Wrath of Fani
Sarah Hussain | Staff Blogger With the initial speed of around 200 kilometres an hour, the cyclone Fani was one of its kind in fifty years of Odisha’s history. Fani dragged the citizens of Odisha in a nostalgic phase giving them the nightmares of Super Cyclone of 1999. Nineteen years of difference and the developments… Continue reading The Wrath of Fani
Be Better: The Imminence of Rape Culture in India
It’s 2019 and we just had to witness a woman with the audacity to judge a girl on what she wears and actually tell some men in a café to rape her for it. Not only this, she was unapologetic, loud and publicly rude about it. Even when another woman of the same age, a… Continue reading Be Better: The Imminence of Rape Culture in India