जब नारी खुद में रखती इतना दम बिना उफ्फ झेले घर-समाज के गम पलायन ही क्या नीलपरी मुसीबत का अंत क्यों आज नर में दमखम इतना कम वैसे तो हर एक जान की कीमत अनमोल है, परन्तु इतने उच्च पदासीन व्यक्ति का ऐसा दुःखद अंत सामाजिक और राष्ट्रीय क्षति भी है। तीस वर्षीय आइपीएस सुरेंद्र […]Read More
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मालविका हरिओम इन किताबों में कुछ तो होता है ओस बनकर जो मन भिगोता है इल्म के एक-एक मोती को रूह की तार में पिरोता है कोई तो है जो ग़म सँजोता है इन किताबों में कुछ तो होता है ज़िन्दगी के हसीन पन्नों पर जब वो तारीख़ मुस्कुराती है तेरी यादों की तितलियों […]Read More
सुप्रीम कोर्ट की पांच-सदस्यीय संविधान पीठ ने फैसला सुनाते हुए कहा- “यौन प्राथमिकता बायोलॉजिकल और प्राकृतिक है. इसमें किसी भी तरह का भेदभाव मौलिक अधिकारों का हनन होगा. निजता किसी की भी व्यक्तिगत पसंद होती है. दो वयस्कों के बीच आपसी सहमति से बने यौन संबंध पर IPC की धारा 377 संविधान के समानता के […]Read More
साल 2009.. लगातार हर बार पति के साथ प्रेम के जिस्मानी उन्माद के बाद कितने ही दिन परेशां रहती थी, पेट दर्द, श्वेत प्रदर,दुर्गन्ध और गीलेपन से.. गोलियां रख परेशां, दवा बेअसर…. कहीं जाना हो तो लाइनर्स यूज़ करो… उफ्फ कोफ्त होती है याद कर के। यह बार बार का यूरीन इंफेक्शन भी पति के […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha If you destroy nature, nature will destroy you… There is no denying this fact. Every year, we have one or the other natural calamity: an earthquake, a landslide, a cloud burst or a flood more severe than the previous one leading to a massive loss of life and property but man in […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha As if mainstream media wasn’t enough, social media too is now falling into the same rut. There is a slight difference though: while journalists working in mainstream media are answerable to their bosses and hence, follow a particular line of writing, there are no such limitations on social media. The result: all […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day, I was chatting with a group of friends when the conversation drifted towards how times are changing—how neither young girls nor elderly women feel safe anymore, how crime seems to be on the rise, and how incidents involving young boys are becoming increasingly disturbing. “We must do something—maybe form […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha …and the world came crashing down. “The FNAC (Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology) report is positive. Your wife has cancer.” Years later, I still remember how those words were delivered to us at Holy Family Hospital in 2006—with unsettling ease. Perhaps it was professional detachment. But what followed in the months and years ahead […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day, I was watching an episode, Sister Mariam’s Dilemma, from the show Zindagi Ke Crossroads on Sony TV. Off and on, I do follow this serial, as it presents complex moral issues through small fictional stories and then explores what a person caught in a difficult life situation should ideally […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I have been travelling by Delhi Metro regularly ever since it started operations in the city. Initially, when the trains were new, people were a little in awe of these meticulously clean compartments and they travelled with care. I remember there used to be pin-drop silence in the compartments, at best travellers […]Read More