Opinion
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| The real heroes of our cities: Sanitation workers | | | | Dr. Satyavan Saurabh
A city isn’t defined by its tall buildings, wide roads, or dazzling lights, but by its cleanliness and orderliness. When a person enters a city, the first thing they notice is its cleanliness, environment, and civic discipline. Clean cities not only look beautiful, but also symbolize better health, a safe life, and a civilized society. But the people who contribute most to this cleanliness often remain outside of society’s attention and respect. These are our sanitation workers—the unseen, unheard, and neglected heroes, on whose labor the entire city’s order depends.
The recent strike by sanitation workers in various cities forced people to reflect on how quickly | |
| | | | Rise of Vijay to Power in Tamil Nadu | | | | Omkar Dattatray
Emergence of youth in political power in Tamil Nadu is really a welcome development and rise of C.J. Vijay to the top post of chief minister is the most recent instance of this trend. In a dramatic turn of politics, in a merely short period of time Vijay rose to power by sweeping the 2026 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and it is unprecedented in the political history of this state which hitherto was ruled either by DMK or by AIADMK. But this traditional power game has been broken by the actor turned politician and that too in a short period of time. It is so good that 51-year -old actor-turned -politician C. Joseph Vijay has become the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, mark | |
| | | | The Dark Web of Human Trafficking | | | | Dr. Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit
Thousands of children are trafficked every year from rural, tribal as well as urban areas in India. Victims are bought and sold like commodities. Catching child-sex tourists is only part of the problem in Nepal. Nepal has become a source as well as transit destination for trafficking of women and children for sex trade tourism from neighbouring countries. When there is an illegal movement of a person from one country to another, a smuggling component is involved, it becomes human smuggling. Human smuggling becomes human trafficking when there is no consent of the person and people are held against their will for sexual exploitation or labor. Human traff | |
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