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Kirthi Jayakumar

We need to choose peace

Conflict is inevitable, but, if we create a proclivity towards peace in people around us, we naturally choose peace and prioritise it.

12 Mar 2018 12:19 AM

I told the world what it already knew, or at least, most of the world already knew — stories of rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence, honour killings, deprivation on gender-based grounds, Gender-based inequality, Foeticide, Infanticide.

Voices of hard-hitting truth

And that is when the true essence of humanitarian work smacked me hard in the face.

29 Jan 2018 1:23 AM

It is important to restore the balance in the information we offer. (Photo: Pixabay)

Doodle tribute for my heroes

There are so many women, so many voices since the dawn of time that are invaluable.

16 Dec 2017 1:07 AM

A grain of thought has been disturbing me, verified and validated by several experiences online and offline. (Photo: Pixabay)

Fighting the good fight

Towards the end of the panel, the moderator — a woman herself — asked us what women should do to gain more respect.

07 Nov 2017 12:15 AM

We strive to create peaceful people, through peaceful tools, peaceful language and peaceful ways to solve conflict.

Ladies first: Lessons in peace

Everyone in today’s generation is fighting a war on borrowed hatred.

23 Sep 2017 1:32 AM

Very simply, touching means when two things come in close contact with one another. (Representational image)

Touch, right and wrong

A confusing touch is one that doesn’t quite feel safe, but you don’t know for sure if it is unsafe.

19 May 2017 12:28 AM

Girls can’t go to school because the route to school is peppered what India calls ‘eve-teasing’. (Representational image)

Mindset matters

The response to rape, be it legislative or policy or activism-oriented, has been largely framed around a band-aid solution.

10 Apr 2017 1:16 AM

Women need to be put back into the equation of equality.

Towards an inclusive, fluid future

In the same world where a woman has the freedom to work as an equal with a man, a woman is also subservient to a man.

28 Feb 2017 12:11 AM

A young woman runs to a police officer for protection during the New Year’s Eve on Brigade Road.

Men, don’t be bystanders

While women, feminists and women’s rights activists cried themselves hoarse, a bunch of the country’s men got onto an ego trip.

16 Jan 2017 12:37 AM

Every criminal urge in a criminal is a reflection of the failure of a security sector system. (Representational image)

Ogling is no birthright

It is disheartening to note that there are many people who believe that it is a woman’s way of dressing that causes sexual violence.

28 Nov 2016 12:09 AM

Nigerian royals hail UK university move on statue

Nigerian royals have welcomed moves at Britain’s Cambridge University to return a bronze cockerel stolen with other artefacts during colonialist looting in the 19th century.

22 Mar 2016 12:52 AM

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