Most homeless kids, whether they have families or live alone, face daily physical & sexual abuse.
The need of the hour, as the Supreme Court readies to rule on the constitutionality of Aadhaar, is for the UIDAI to fix the bugs, says Geetanjali Krishna, in the second and final part of her series.
'I sighed, wondering what we'd eat if all farmers took jobs in the city and all their fields degenerated into land for sale,' notes Geetanjali Krishna.
'No one really knows whether it is somehow better to go raging and fighting into the dark night, or close one's eyes quietly and give in to fate.' 'But a funeral with music, tinsel and acceptance -- not unlike most New Year festivities -- seems like a better send-off than any other,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
They landed at their destination in the midst of a typhoon warning!
Monika explains that girls like her living in villages have no access to fashion. Access to "nice clothes" and the freedom to wear them, she tells Geetanjali Krishna, could go a long way in developing the confidence of young girls like herself.
There was a time when the fierce warriors of the Konyak tribe displayed the skulls of their vanquished enemies as war trophies. Today, their world is disappearing.
Like the Vietnamese, maybe we too will survive bombs and disasters to see a better day.
'I don't know how long the small-scale handmade sector can survive,' a shoemaker from Hisar tells Geetanjali Krishna.
A Delhi-based organisation is helping parents become involved with their children's school experience, says Geetanjali Krishna.
'Whether she pursued academics or art, there was one sort of tyranny she'd probably never escape -- her father's,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
'Sick in my heart that people could think that half our population couldn't "help" wanting to prey on the other half, I mused that the faceless dead girl on the road wasn't just a victim of murder, but also of the misogynistic society she had spent her short life in,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
The 230-year-old Alila Fort in Bishangarh is now a hotel.
Man loses Rs 1.5 lakh from under his pillow. Geetanjali Krishna reveals what happens next.
Geetanjali Krishna approached her trip to Greece -- the cradle of democracy where the notions of equality, free speech and civic liberty first took shape -- as much as pilgrimage as a holiday.
Butterflies aren't just easy on the eyes. Their presence in a place indicates the relative health of the environment.
Are you an innocent smartphone user in a perilous online world, asks Geetanjali Krishna.
Geetanjali Krishna looks at how one organisation's unique idea is helping marginalised communities to gain legal access.
In a patriarchal Uttar Pradesh village, a young girl is making a difference.
Meet the Ravana makers of Titarpur, courtesy Geetanjali Krishna.
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