Journalism of Courage
Advertisement
Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta
The writer is in the Indian Administrative Service, and based in Bengaluru
Authors you can follow
More From Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta
Mina Swaminathan: Institution builder, friend to India’s childrenSubscriber Only
March 18, 2022 03:29 IST
Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta writes: Mina Swaminathan's work laid the foundations for important welfare programmes, including Integrated Child Development Services.
Fri, Mar 18, 2022
We need a multi-pronged approach to end child marriageSubscriber Only
November 25, 2021 03:30 IST
Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta writes: Legislation, education and government action must be used together to help families keep teenage girls in school
Fri, Nov 26, 2021
Why the post-pandemic school is an opportunity to reinvent learningSubscriber Only
August 24, 2021 03:55 IST
Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta writes: The classroom must be centred around joyful and creative learning, join the dots between children’s lives and education.
Wed, Aug 25, 2021
Why a grassroots mass movement is necessary to fight dowrySubscriber Only
July 02, 2021 04:15 IST
Accepting dowry should be made a social stigma, and all generations should be addressed. Get superstars to endorse this
Fri, Jul 02, 2021
Vulnerable, scared, grief-stricken: How govts can support children who’ve lost parents to CovidSubscriber Only
June 01, 2021 03:09 IST
Besides empathy and kindness, short, medium and long term solutions are needed for the care and protection of young ones affected by the pandemic.
Tue, Jun 01, 2021
Community action, with a focus on women’s well-being, can fight malnutritionSubscriber Only
January 05, 2021 04:36 IST
Anganwadi workers, ASHAs, ANMs and anganwadi supervisors can work together with panchayat members to ensure that all children and mothers are covered with immunisation, antenatal care, maternity benefits and nutrition services
Tue, Jan 05, 2021
India’s Oscar entry, ‘Jallikattu’, is about the seething brutality of everyday lifeSubscriber Only
December 08, 2020 03:06 IST
The most powerful depiction of toxic masculinity and violence is in Pellissery’s latest work, Jallikattu. The film is about conflict between man and beast; man and man; and man and woman.
Tue, Dec 08, 2020
Isher Ahluwalia and Devaki Jain fashioned feminism out of lived experienceSubscriber Only
October 20, 2020 00:54 IST
Though the two women’s childhoods could not have been more different, both knew that education was their path to freedom.
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
Is education only about decoding a bland paragraph & performing an arithmetic operation?Subscriber Only
July 12, 2020 03:20 IST
If we are able to feed their bodies and enrich their minds, the children will surely build a better world for our collective future.
Sun, Jul 12, 2020
Brew Me a StorySubscriber Only
December 15, 2019 08:15 IST
A journey from Bengaluru to Chikmagalur unfolds as a trip through Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar, an iconic story by Poornachandra Tejaswi and a history of the Indian Coffee House workers’ movement.
Sun, Dec 15, 2019
Crime PatrolSubscriber Only
September 24, 2016 00:59 IST
Anita Nair’s second Inspector Gowda book is a reflection on crime, retribution and the challenges of public service
Sat, Sep 24, 2016
Thicker Than BloodSubscriber Only
June 18, 2016 01:19 IST
Tahmima Anam ends her Bangladesh trilogy with a novel epic in scope and full of great beauty
Sat, Jun 18, 2016The prize and fallSubscriber Only
October 17, 2011 02:31 IST
Has this been the Man Bookers annus horribilis?
Mon, Oct 17, 2011Scars and a superstarSubscriber Only
September 27, 2011 02:46 IST
Karnataka film industrys disconcerting silence on domestic violence.
Tue, Sep 27, 2011Bombays BaumgartnersSubscriber Only
June 29, 2011 00:16 IST
Only in fiction can the citys contradictions find expression
Wed, Jun 29, 2011
Master of SpiceSubscriber Only
January 22, 2006 00:00 IST
Coolie, of course, made at the time of the looming threat from video, was not merely a film but ‘‘an important media event’&#...
Sun, Jan 22, 2006No Order in NarniaSubscriber Only
November 27, 2005 00:00 IST
Walking down Kolkata’s College Street this week, surrounded by books on IIT-JEE and “11 years of CAT papers solved”, I was wo...
Sun, Nov 27, 2005The Interpreter of SilencesSubscriber Only
October 23, 2005 00:00 IST
This year’s Nobel Prize winning playwright, Harold Pinter, is a fiercely vocal critic of the war against Iraq — “we have a cl...
Sun, Oct 23, 2005Rescued in TranslationSubscriber Only
September 11, 2005 00:00 IST
It’s not the most compelling of titles, and Nadezhda and Vera are the quintessential quarrelsome sisters. Nadezhda, our middle-aged nar...
Sun, Sep 11, 2005Telegrams Before TimeSubscriber Only
August 28, 2005 00:00 IST
The Unspoken Curse is a translation of Asreekaram, a Malayalam novel by journalist- writer V.K. Madhavan Kutty, whose novel The Village Befo...
Sun, Aug 28, 2005A Date With DraculaSubscriber Only
July 10, 2005 00:00 IST
My dear and unfortunate successor: It is with regret that I imagine you, whoever you are, reading the account I must put down here... My reg...
Sun, Jul 10, 2005Like Waiting to Be SickSubscriber Only
June 26, 2005 00:00 IST
Some years ago, the photograph of a starving Sudanese child struggling towards a feeding station, being watched closely by a nearby vulture,...
Sun, Jun 26, 2005The Storyteller of AlmoraSubscriber Only
May 29, 2005 00:00 IST
It is never easy to write about one’s parents. One becomes aware of much that might have remained submerged. Uncover their strengths an...
Sun, May 29, 2005On the Party CircuitSubscriber Only
February 20, 2005 00:00 IST
You hate yourself for writing what the Party tells you to write,” says the professional blood donor to the professional writer in Ma Ji...
Sun, Feb 20, 2005
Journalism of Courage
Install the Express App for
a better experience
a better experience
Featured
Trending Topics
News
Multimedia
Follow Us