Sanjukta Bose

Billie Eilish has broken the internet once again — this time with her interview and photoshoot for British Vogue’s June 2021 cover issue. Her Instagram post featuring it has broken the record for reaching one million likes the fastest — a feat that the singer achieved in under six minutes. Another photo from the same shoot that Eilish posted is among the top five most-liked photos on Instagram.

And the reason the singer is breaking all records is not hard to find — ditching the iconic baggy, ...

Sarah has wanted to do sex work, specifically porn, for a very long time now. It is only recently, in her forties, that she decided to just go for it and began creating content on OnlyFans.
“I’m a very sexual person. I didn’t always have the confidence to explore that side of me. I’ve thought about doing porn since I was a teen,” Sarah told me. But when Covid hit, she found some free time for herself as her job as a veterinary nurse required her to work every other week for shifts. “Then some...

Whenever the volunteers at Rangeen Khidki Foundation (RKF) begin with their capacity building workshops in the slums and outskirts of Kolkata, questions about the female reproductive system are mostly met with giggles and blank stares. Sometimes there are aghast expressions and embarrassed smiles.
But by the end of a two-and-a-half hour session, girls can be seen animatedly discussing the age at which they began menstruating and how many days their periods last for.

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When I think of the word ‘genius’, the first image that comes to my mind is that of Albert Einstein; specifically those black and white posters with the photo where he’s sticking out his tongue, and with an inspirational quote underneath it. I’ve come across such posters in my school, a doctor’s chamber, and on the cover of a notebook someone once gifted me, among others.
When I think a little harder, I think of all the literary geniuses I’ve had the opportunity of rea...

One of my favourite T-shirts during my undergrad years was a pink one with tiny printed stick figure dolls in different yoga poses. I often wore it to college, and once it started wearing out, promoted it to the nightwear section of my wardrobe. It made a brief stint in public once again during a particularly messy Holi, after which the stick figures faded behind the stubborn blue-green battle scars of water balloons.
My favourite pink tee was granted a new lease of life when my mother found ...

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The Madhya Pradesh cabinet, last week, approved the draft of the controversial and regressive Freedom of Religion Bill 2020, under which forced conversion of a minor, woman or a person from Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe would draw a minimum jail term of 2-10 years with a minimum penalty of Rs. 50,000. With this law in place, Madhya Pradesh will become the second Indian state after Uttar Pradesh to pass legislation that is aimed to ta...

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The situation of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh has once again taken a turn for the worse with the Bangladesh government's plan to relocate around 100,000 refugees to an isolated flood-prone island called Bhasan Char that emerged from the sea 20 years ago, located 60 km off the coast. The island is made entirely of silt, and can be inundated with a single strike of a cyclone. The government has cited chronic overcrowding as the reason for this move which has been he...

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On the 30th of November this year, Amnesty International released a report that highlighted the complicity of Silicon Valley giants, Facebook and Google, in the repression of the freedom of speech in Vietnam. This 79 page long report detailed the way in which many activists and defenders of human rights had been victim to online censorship. Though Amnesty has been tracking the arrests and prosecution of critics of the regime since 2006, it is the increasing aligning of c...

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The farmers rage against the new agriculture bill has been seething since September, but has aggravated in the last few days as thousands of them hailing from all regions of the wheat belt area are marching towards the capital as we speak, demanding the withdrawal of the new legislations or introduction of new law ensuring them Minimum Selling Price (MSP) for the crops produced.
The core of agitation lies in the new farm bill introduced by the center. The government beli...

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Riot police block a street in Lima, Peru, as protestors march to the government palace to denounce the swearing in of Manuel Merino. Photograph by: Aldair Mejia/EPA (Source: The Guardian)
Despite all of Latin America being characterized by political instability, Peru is a an epitome of this volatility. Controversy has plagued President after President and there seems to be no end to the political turmoil this nation suffers. The constant drama is like something straight ...

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After continuous fighting for 6 weeks, the city of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh was liberated by Azerbaijan from the occupation of Armenian forces on the 8th of November. On very emotional notes the leader of the country announced that azan will be heard in Shusha after 28 years. Ahmed, a journalist in Baku, perfectly reflected the mood in Azerbaijan- "There is a mood of national celebration in Baku. There are surging crowds among a sea of flags. This is a real and a key v...

On August 8, Zomato introduced a policy allowing female and transgender employees to avail up to ten days of period leaves annually. Though Zomato isn’t the first to introduce such a policy in India, the move was enthusiastically welcomed by many even as several detractors denounced it as a step back when it comes to gender equality.
First, a clarification. Gender equality between men and women does not mean that women must be treated as men. This appears to be a wholly troublesome misconcept...