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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum – Day 2
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
The second day of the Forum on 31 October got off to an early start with a brief introduction to the Asia Programme launched this year by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Europe sees Asia as an economic power and bringing the two regions together by increasing knowledge and understanding between them will […]
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Anuja Upadhyay
Anuja is a social scientist and writer with development experience in organizations like UN Women, Manushi for Sustainable Development and International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN) across India and Nepal. Her main areas of work are on gender equity, violence against women and children, anti-human trafficking of women, girls (including children), sustainable development, health and other critical global issues like governance, migration and economic globalization. She has special interest and expertise in writing about diverse issues as a blogger for Future Challenges.
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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum-Day 1
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
“One can be a senior leader at a very young age and a young leader at an advanced age.…so age is not a determining factor for participating in such a Forum” Indeed, the above Forum on Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, organized to see how politics and business […]
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Freedom of Expression: The Ethos of a Democracy
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
I can well imagine the slack jawed expressions on some our front benchers’ beatific faces on seeing political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi’s cartoons on the net. Personnally I didn’t think they were extraordinarily funny and were more the work of an amateur artist. Yet the portrayal of the three lions in […]
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Are Sports an Unfair Game for Women in India?
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
“As an Indian woman of the 21st century, what I find disillusioning is the humiliating manner in which I was set up as bait in a ploy to try and pacify one of the disgruntled stalwarts of Indian tennis.” Sania Mirza The two times Grand Slam champion and India’s number one […]
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Internal Migrant Workers in Delhi
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
“I was just twelve years when I came from Uttar Pradesh (a northern state of India) as a migrant worker with the help of a relative,” says Ram Charan Yadav my neighbourhood vegetable vendor. He sits outside my apartment complex and claims to have been selling vegetables here for the […]
