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  Mid-day meal schemes and their flaws (By Aadesh Sharma  )   Image By:- Sukriti Singh Mid-Day Meal Scheme “ Mid-Day Meal-For lakhs of children, it is still the only meal of the day ” by Ankush Sharma. For us, the privileged section of the society, we will never know how it feels to sleep hungry . We do not know how it feels to manage just a morsel of food a day. Often at expensive restaurants, as the waiter delays in serving our food, we say “I am dying of hunger”. Do we  know how it feels to die of hunger? No, we don’t. We use these words casually without thinking that in our Nation, each day, lakhs of children go to sleep without getting to eat the entire day. The Government has been devising various schemes for years to curb malnutrition and to provide food for all , but it has failed. Malnutrition and the diseases attached to it remain in our country. We are lucky we never had to think about our food. We always had more than we needed. We waste food without gi...

  Dowry death is still prevalent in India (By Pashmeen Kaur  )   Image By:- Sukriti Singh Introduction  In patriarchal society such as India the status of the women is still vulnerable. It is the girl child education that has been always sacrificed and they are expected to just take care of the family and the young ones. The Dowry system is an evil activity and one the major reasons why girl child education is being sacrificed. It is due to the family's irregular financial condition they save money for giving dowry to the future husband of the daughter. Sometimes a woman in the martial house is forced to get money from her parents and if she fails to do so she has to face domestic violence. The Dowry system has led to treating a girl child in her own house like a guest. Dowry means giving money, property, jewellery etc as a gift to the groom’s family. There are several reasons for the prevalence of the dowry but the core reason is that it is the precondition of the g...

Majoritarianism is the antithesis of democracy (By Neha Soni  )   Image By:- Goutham Sagar Majoritarianism  is a term that means the majority of the population is given supremacy in society and has the power to make decisions independently (not considering minorities) that can affect the society. India is a democratic country and every citizen has the right to vote or participate in   election s . Every individual has the right to express his/her views and that might be with the majority or with minori ties Justice Deepak Gupta , while delivering a lecture on “Democracy and Dissent” (organized by supreme court bar association) in February 2020 said that Majoritarianism  is antithesis to democracy and criticizing the government does not mean one is ‘anti-national’ or is against the country. He said that the government may not be always right and that people have the right and freedom to protest peacefully and express their opinion against the government....

JUVENILE CRIME (By Aadesh Sharma  )   Image By:- Sukriti Singh Childhood is for fun. But the number of minors in crime like murder and rape is increasing rapidly which is very worrying for the whole society. The age of sixteen is called teenagers age, but if we look at the figure, it looks like a black age. According to the National Crime Bureau, the age of sixteen is becoming the age to become a criminal. Some children pay to small children to do the wrong thing. If someone's friends are doing wrong, then he also asks his friends to do the same thing this is called peer pressure. The juvenile crime graph is 64%. So, let me tell you who is juvenile? Juvenile means a very young person teenager, an adolescent. A juvenile crime committed by those in the 16-18 age groups. Crime by a juvenile is harsh in reality today's world .as per the juvenile justice act, 2000, a juvenile shall not be treated as an adult and his criminal activities are not involved in a court of law. As we are ...

SITUATION OF WOMEN IN INDIA (By Aadesh Sharma  )   Image By:- Sukriti Singh Before the independence of India, the condition of women is not good in India. Women have to endure a lot about their studies, marriage, and security. In older times, if a women's husband died, then she has burnt along with her funeral pyre that things are no longer visible. And women were also married at a young age. But the condition of women is not completely changing women are also suffering even after so much independence of India. We hear every day that there are rapes with little girls. Yesterday I saw the news that a five-year-old girl was gang-raped. Which is an embarrassing scene? Some people's souls are completely dead and become the demon? What will happen to the country in which small girls are not safe? Parents are always concerned about their girls if something goes wrong. Most of the parents do not allow sending their girls outside the house at night. But now gradually some changes are ...