Anshul Tewari

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Combined Entrance And Admission via Board Exam Marks for Engineering Colleges: What Do Students Think?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 4:26 pm
By Nitish Pratik: Following is an interview of an aspiring IIT-JEE student who is in a state of dilemma as the HRD ministry has called for a combined entrance test and admission via board exam marks for all the engineering colleges from 2013. So here we get to talk with him about the mindset of st...
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Relations Between India And Russia: A Quick Look

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 3:23 pm
By Nitish Pratik: India and Soviet Union (USSR) enjoyed a close relationship before the cold war. When the cold war ended, India lost its interest in its victor, Russia, and Russia followed the same behaviour towards India. But the relationship has resurged now. It was Vladimir Putin’s visit to I...
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Are You Using Rechargeable Batteries? #SamajhdarSintu

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 1:58 pm
Come every week, YKA will feature a comic strip to encourage the youth to save the environment. While we are quite sure that you are already doing your bit, we would love for you to share this comic strip with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc. Check out the latest one below, and hear o...
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Indian Youth: The Future Of The Nation… Really?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 3, 2012, 5:25 pm
By Arastu Zakia: A majority of the Indian populace has remained faceless, a mere statistic that intermittently reminds us of their existence somewhere in the back pages of our newspapers associated with ‘alien’ concepts such as ‘hunger’, ‘poverty’, ‘malnutrition’ and so on. Let me ...
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The Deplorable Condition of Women Prisoners in India

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 3, 2012, 2:38 pm
By Sakshi Chouhan and Rohit Dhyani: It has been 64 years since India attained independence – The largest democracy in the world. Yet justice for all is a far cry in the country where the judiciary system continues to ignore human rights of numerous women prisoners. The condition of women in Indi...
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8 Reasons Why You MUST Attend TEDxConnaughtPlace

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 3, 2012, 12:47 pm
By Aditi Annapurna: The TED Commandments ensure that the event will not be your usual, boring, run-of-the-mill, pseudo-intellectual dialogue (read the sinisterly-worded Commandment The Seventh: “Thou Shalt Not Sell from the Stage: Neither thy Company, thy Goods, thy Writings, nor thy desperate ne...
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The Changing Pattern of Parenthood, Over-mature Children And Loss Of Innocence

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 1, 2012, 5:53 pm
By Devika Mittal: As kids, we had a desire to speed up the growing part and become adults. Adulthood meant an escape from the boring homework, having a lot more freedom and the power to decide. Of course, now as adults, we like to laugh on that silly desire. It was silly but it was a very innocent...
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V For Victory: Scr*w #SOPA #DOODLE

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 1, 2012, 5:42 pm
This week, our doodle columnist Shantam Goyal expresses himself against the much controversial SOPA, which was being brought in to fight online piracy, however, the law, if approved would have been a big barrier towards freedom of expression on the internet. While talking of SOPA on TIME’s Techla...
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Veer Savarkar: Not a Reform, but a Political Motive! Really?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 1, 2012, 5:31 pm
By Akshay Ranade: “Savarkar spoke about ending the caste system- not for reform purpose but to identify the dalits as Hindus”, the PowerPoint slide emphatically declared. It was one of our Political Economy class and the topic for the discussion was “Hindu Communalism”. Now it’s quite cu...
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Suraj, His Busy Life, And His Old Love

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Feb 1, 2012, 4:52 pm
By Smriti Mahale: Suraj returned to his silent home. Being the CEO of one of the biggest company of the nation was a tough job. He still enjoyed it. The reputation, the wealth, the respect, he enjoyed it all. Even though it meant, no friends and family, no informal parties, no simple joys of life,...
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Interview With Noorjahan Akbar, Co-Founder, Young Women For Change, Afghanistan

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 31, 2012, 3:48 pm
Noorjahan Akbar is a student at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, a pre eminent women’s rights activist and Co-founder of Young Women for Change, which aims to fight the deep-seated beliefs that underpin the oppression of women in Afghanistan. YKA’s Alam Bains got a chance to interview Noorjahan....
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Quick Book Review: Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 31, 2012, 3:47 pm
By Nirav Shah: The book “Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives” written by V Raghunathan and Prabina Rajib deals with the common issues that any Investor faces , specifically those who do not have the technical background. What’s the plot? The book is a compilation of 250 most naggi...
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Vocational Education in India: A Big Opportunity

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 31, 2012, 10:14 am
By Shajan Samuel: One need not explain the meaning of Demographic Dividend in the present context, as it has been India’s trump Card during the recent high growth period. But, the apparent demographic dividend has mostly resulted into a mistake. We need our youth to be productive in a much more e...
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Is Advertising Socially Extravagant Or Socially Enviable?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 7:09 pm
By P Alli: Corporate sector of every economy rests on advertising and India is no exception to it. In a rigorous empirical study conducted by the author it was found that the advertising expenditure of almost all the sample firms of the food processing industry witnessed a continuous increase. This...
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Is Anna another Gandhi? Should such labels matter for a national campaign?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 7:04 pm
By Sukant Khurana, Ph.D. Even as Anna recovered from health issues, his criticism from detractors and worship by followers shows no signs of abatement. Given that the government sympathizers are hell-bent on proving that Anna is no Gandhi, it is important to ask if there are parallels between Anna ...
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Jallikattu: Man vs Bull; Is Tradition Above Safety?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 7:02 pm
By Ashish Kumar: Jallikattu, Indian counterpart of Spanish game of Bull racing, (although die-hard fans would argue that Jallikattu is different from Bull racing in the sense that here matadors don’t kill the bull, just tame it and there are no weapons involved) is a bull taming game played in m...
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Is India Becoming An Oligarchy?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 6:23 pm
By Utsav Chaudhary: Abraham Lincoln’s most famous quote about democracy says that a democratic government is ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’. Taking this quote as the base, the Indian constitution was framed. But today, is the government of India ‘of the people’ or ‘of th...
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A Book Review of 'The World is Flat' by Thomas Friedman

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 4:45 pm
By Babita Balan: The World is flat according to three times Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman. The theory came into existence when he visited India, where he witnessed Indians with American names and accent communicating to Americans miles away. What he means is a level playing field that we ha...
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Atrocities To Tribal Women And Dream Of Becoming A Superpower

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 5:53 am
... recent news of barbarian atrocities and biased perspective towards tribal women ... claims of a mammoth Constitution and a vibrant democracy. Irom Sharmilla ... , instead of discussing the relevance and necessity of continuing this act ... she would not yield and would not eat. They have fi...
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Tarang: The Annual Cultural Festival of Lady Shri Ram College

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 29, 2012, 3:07 pm
Disclosure: YouthKiAwaaz.com is an online partner of Tarang, the annual cultural festival of Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. The Annual Cultural Festival of Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Tarang, in collaboration with Nano 2012, will be held on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of February 2012. ...
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Media Should Be More Than Just A Watchdog

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 6:23 pm
By Ravish Kumar: Interestingly, every nation has its own stories locked in words defining sets of priorities across a whole spectrum of issues, both at the domestic and global front. Every nation, thus sadly, has two faces – one for its own people and one for the global populace. While this is no...
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10 Reasons Why Montessori Education Could Solve Our Current Education System Problems

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 5:15 pm
By Anshul Tewari: While we stand right in front, cribbing about and blaming the education system, we fail to come up with constructive solutions to solve this problem. Pointing fingers at the education system and policies won’t help, need now is to learn from various education systems around the ...
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Interview With R Balki, The Man Behind Lowe Lintas, Cheeni Kum and Paa

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 10:06 am
The man renowned for creating advertisements which keep your eyes glued to the TV screen has a simple dictum: “Big decisions in life are like lollipops.” For R Balakrishnan a.k.a. Balki , an interesting commercial borders on the extreme. For instance, in one of his ad films he links population c...
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UP Elections And The Dumb Electorate #WakeUp

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 9:50 am
By Kunal Anand: Our politicians, if given a chance could be the best explosive experts. They are good at diffusing bombs. For almost a year, the entire nation talked about the Jan Lokpal and how corruption affects every common man. There was a spurt in the RTI requests being filed by the civil soci...
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Management Sutras: Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 5:08 pm
By Ranjeet Kumar: The greatest management principles are not taught in class but experienced in the world around. No matter how well you have done in academics, real acid test lies in understanding our own pattern and beliefs. Once the prejudices are minimized to basal level, a real manager, a powe...
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As Gender Abuse Grew, Economics Gave God The Solution!

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 11:04 am
By Ilika Ranjan: This little short story dawned in my mind when I was reading one of the travel books on ancient India. The exact lines stated were ‘cattle and women were the movable properties that men could carry as they moved from one land to the other.’ I felt a surge of temper and my head ...
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Corrupting Ourselves At Convenience

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 10:23 am
By Kunal Anand: Our flat in Delhi did not have a dedicated water connection. The owner had applied for it and after getting the necessary approval from the Delhi Jal Board (who were very co-operative), today, the process of making the connection started. When the workers started to dig a small stre...
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The Hindu Takes On Times Of India With Intelligent Advertising

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 8:33 am
By Anshul Tewari: The Hindu, known to be a newspaper with intelligent reporting has taken the Times of India head on with its new ad that suggests the latter to be an entertainment only newspaper. The ad is a retaliation to an ad by Times of India for their Chennai launch, suggesting that The Hindu...
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Deteriorating Health Of India's Mission Health #POEM

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 7:05 am
By Kannan G: Rats nibble at body of man paralyzed in ICU I wonder who or what there really was lying paralyzed! Incidence of child malnutrition comes shocking all at once I wonder why this shameful shock wasn’t but earlier realized! Fire engulfs high-profile hospital and guiltless patients d...
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An Year of the Streets in India: Did The Protests Really Help?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 5:23 pm
By Waled Aadnan: On 18 December 2010, a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself. The wheels of time grind slow, but they grind fine, or so they say. The immediate cause of this act of protest in Tunisia was undue harassment by officials yet its underlying causes aptly symbolise the...
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The Current State, Success And Future Of The Indian Diaspora in South Africa

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 5:01 pm
... the world. A saga of bonding and betrayal, of love and loss, ... local African was unsuitable for employed labour. The Indians turned out to be ... arrival, were subjected to varying levels of racial and social discrimination. Gandhi, ... went and happened to hold positions of considerab...
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The Irony Of Hunger In India #PhotoNama

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 4:27 pm
Location – Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai Photo by Anukriti Sharma: A little child cries for food as birds devour scattered grains. Buried in the sands of time, the hunger of the birds echo against the hunger of this little child. Their state is juxtaposed against the backdrop of ‘grain’y sand t...
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Rendezvous With Dr. Fauzia Saeed: Social Scientist, Gender Activist and Author Of The Best Seller 'Taboo'

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 1:57 pm
Fauzia Saeed – a PhD from University of Minnesota and author of the well regarded ethnographic look at prostitution, Taboo: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area is a gender expert from Lahore, Pakistan. She has spent over two decades in positions related to the task of bringing social change in ...
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Inclusive Education for the Disabled- A Myth Or Reality?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 6:56 pm
By Upasana Mukherjee: Inclusion of people with disabilities into the mainstream society is a much neglected issue in a country like India where a large percentage of children (about 10%) are born with birth defects. These children with disabilities have to face enormous challenges in their lives to...
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Auroville: The City of Dawn #Photos

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 5:35 pm
By Tejaswini Beerapu: Mira Alfassa or “The Mother”, wife of Philosopher Sri Aurobindo founded ‘City of Dawn’ in Vilappuram in 1968. The idea was to attain a harmonious lifestyle. She shared her idea to build a society free of political, religious and hierarchical barriers with few prospect...
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Plight Of Intersex People In India And Around The World

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 4:50 pm
By Garima Lekhwani: From the disgusted looks on the faces of their parents at the time of their birth to the discrimination faced by them at workplace in adulthood, from the humiliation and baseless injustice inflicted upon them by the society to the sex-change operations performed on them without ...
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Samajhdar Sintu Comic Strip 2: Time To Use Woodless Products

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 3:57 pm
Come every week, YKA will feature a comic strip to encourage the youth to save the environment. While we are quite sure that you are already doing your bit, we would love for you to share this comic strip with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc. Check out the latest one below, and hear o...
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"Give Me Liberty! Or A Brain Muffin" #TheChestnutTree #Doodle

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 3:48 pm
Our doodle columnist, Shantam Goyal, presents the second edition of his doodle column. This doodle well represents the situation we are often in. Let us know your views in the comments section below. Shantam Goyal, An amateur sketch artist, and a student of literature at Kirori Mal College, Univers...
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"Mountaineering was something I ran away from", Interview: Krushnaa Patil

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 22, 2012, 4:38 pm
When an 18-year-old girl in Bangalore witnessed the 19-year-old Rihanna top the music charts in 2007-08, she wanted to be “at the top of something”. At that time, mountaineer Krushnaa Patil had no idea that a year later she would climb to the top of the world, literally. Today she is just one pe...
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Dear Jobless-Hooter-On-The-Road, Let The Girl Walk In Peace

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 22, 2012, 4:26 pm
By Pavitra. K: Incredible India, as it is claimed to be. Or, is it? Eve’s descendants are atrociously unsafe. If a girl/woman walks free of cat calls, whistles or anything remotely similar, 100 meters at a stretch, in any public place- I should stop dreaming, right here, right now. And ‘they’...
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Delhi's Dirty Picture – Of Damsels and Dresses

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 3:56 pm
By Kaumudi Tiwari: Dilwaalo ki dilli – the city of life, enthusiasm, liberty and joy. Delhi also happens to be the city of road rage, violent flash mobs, eve-teasing, molestation, rape and murder. Such are the two sides of the city which with much pride holds the tag of the Indian Capital. Anothe...
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Dear Ministry of HRD, Do Lend Us An Ear

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 1:49 pm
By Aravind Prasant: Our education system is in turmoil. The past year alone has witnessed the introduction of a radical new grading policy in the CBSE board examinations, which, perhaps even more radically, were declared optional at around the same time.  Meanwhile, eight new IITs appeared out of ...
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Media For Change: Community Video Units

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 10:52 am
By Esha Vaish: The media is often found to be rampant with misrepresentation and skewed representation. While a Bollywood tadka-song features in primetime news, important issues of human rights violation find no voice in the slots and quirky blurbs on news channels. The brutality doesn’t end ther...
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Restoring Peace In The Paradise: Kashmir

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 20, 2012, 3:37 pm
By Tanima Banerjee: Kashmir has always been eyed with a lot of pride by every Indian. This beautiful valley is popularly called ‘The Paradise on Earth’, and rightly so. Those who have lived or visited this divinely created world of lush green meadows, the tall surmounting chinar and pine trees,...
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Interview With A Shopkeeper On His Views On FDI In Retail

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 20, 2012, 3:30 pm
By Rishin Mukherjee: “FDIs in retail space” sounds like a phrase straight out of ‘The Economic Times’ and most people would discard it as another phrase of economic jargon that they do not understand and one that they believe does not affect their lives. However, a recent interview with the...
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TOP 10 Causes Of Environmental Damage

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 20, 2012, 3:23 pm
By Rishin Mukherjee: From the immense amount of propaganda that goes around in the media these days, it is clear that there is a lot of environmental degradation all around us. Such is the depth of the situation that conferences are being held every year, and new tools like CDM (Clean Development M...
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99th Indian Science Congress 2012: 'Changing Face of Indian Science'

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 20, 2012, 3:12 pm
By Ranjeet Kumar: The 99th Indian Science Congress session opened on the 3rd of Jan at the sprawling campus of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. A five day long scientific carnival with focal theme Role of Science and Technology for Inclusive Innovation with special reference to the Rol...
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If Provocative Dressing Causes Rape, How Do You Justify Rape Of Children, Sir?

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 19, 2012, 12:33 pm
By Soumya M: What a fabulous way to start a new year, to utter the dreaded four letter word – RAPE. The past few weeks saw news channels engaging experts as well as citizens to voice their opinions on the statement given by the DGP of Andhra Pradesh. For those of you who haven’t come across th...
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3 Out Of 10 Indian Children Have Faced Cyber Bullying: Research

Anshul Tewari posted an article on - Jan 19, 2012, 11:12 am
A research done by Ipsos – a global market research company, has found that 3 out of 10 parents in India say that their children have been victims of cyber-bullying, majorly through social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut. The survey found that 45 percent of Indian parents believed a chil...
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About Me

Hi I am Anshul Tewari, a blogger activist. I blog about issues that matter to the youth and have created Youth Ki Awaaz (http://www.youthkiawaaz.com) a platform where the youth can freely voice themselves over issues of concern. I am also a journalist and I simply love my job. I launched Youth Ki Awaaz: Mouthpiece for the Youth on 31st March 2008. As Mahatma Gandhi once said " A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history", I believe that the youth has the power to create a new environment of peaceful co-existence. Do visit www.youthkiawaaz.com :)

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