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Aruna Roy is the woman behind India’s Right To Information movement which resulted in the enactment of the Right To Information Act.
Aruna Roy was born in Chennai in 1946. After completing her schooling from several prestigious institutions, she joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). However, in 1974, she quit the IAS and joined the Social Work and Research Centre in Rajasthan. Here she worked at the grassroots level and in 1983 she founded the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana to support the local peasants and farmers.
Following this, Aruna Roy started campaigning for the right to information in a bid to make India’s bureaucracy transparent and accessible to the common man. After a long struggle, the Right To Information (RTI) Act was finally passed by the government. Today, this Act serves as an important tool to expose corrupt leaders and political scams.
In 2000 Aruna Roy was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership and she has also served as a member of the National Advisory Council of India.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For successfully spearheading campaigns that benefit the ordinary citizens of India
– For being a positive agent of change
*Photo source: India Today.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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