Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Vandana Bansal

Vandana Bansal is a journalism and mass communication student from New Delhi.

“Why do you fear my way so much?” G.N. Saibaba writes from prison

The book "Why do you fear my way so much?", containing letters and poems from prison by human rights defender and Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba was launched at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Not secondary protesters, we are farmers: Mahila Sansad

200 women, allowed by the Delhi government, reached Jantar Mantar from Singhu border for the historic event on Monday, to press their demands to repeal three farm laws introduced last year.
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‘Rajasthan Rising’, marginalised girls fight child marriage

“I protected myself but I knew there are girls out there who are facing the same problem in lockdown. I knew we needed to...

How a Kisan School in Tikri border became a hope for children of nearby slum?

Their new classroom is The Kisan School, started by The Kisan Social Army in February, 2021. It aims to educate the children from a nearby slum. The Kisan School is a 15X15 tent erected by the protesting farmers at Tikri border. The flaps of the tent were decorated with colourful displays and charts that read alphabets and numbers. A few girls in the corner completed their homework while boys in the front revised the previous day’s classwork. One thing was in common- their bright smiles and will to learn.
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Dissecting the new rules for social media and OTT

Last week IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar released the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 at a press conference in New Delhi. Although the government had raised the issue in 2018, work on issuing the new rules for social media and OTT platforms gained acceleration after the spat between IT ministry and Twitter over removal of certain accounts affiliated with farm protests to which Twitter disagreed.