Gagandeep Kaur

The gangrape of a 13-year old girl and her 35-year-old mother in the northern Indian city of Bulandshahr in August has brought the focus back on the issue of increasing crimes against women in the country. More recently, a perfumer was found murdered in her apartment in Goa. A former security guard of the building was arrested in the case — he allegedly raped her because he was “nursing a grudge” against her.
Data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) says the number of reported incid...

The expansion of mobile network in the country’s hinterland is not only changing the perception about mobile devices but also generating means of livelihood
Rural Indian women are now finally starting to enjoy the fruits of the telecom revolution across the country as a number of initiatives are targeting women living in villages, enabling them to leverage connectivity to spread their wings.
For years, women have been left out of the telecom revolution, and according to data from the Internet...

Indian citizens almost take the official apathy for granted. Most of us believe that we don’t have a solution but to accept it as a part of our lives. Mumbai-based lawyer, Afroz Shah proves it that the citizens do have a choice. The choice of taking the bull by its horns and to be the change that they want to experience. Recipient of UN Champion Of The Earth award, Shah decided to take matters into his own hands, wear gloves and clean up the beach near his house by picking one plastic bag at ...

Shalini Agarwal stands high above a river canyon on a bungee jumping rig. From her platform perch, she has a clear view of the river steadily flowing below. But she's not here to enjoy the scenery. To her left is Nitish Sharma, directing a scene with Priya Patel, who is about the make the leap, while Shalini is holding a boom microphone. Today, she is on a film location working as a sound designer, recording every audible note.
As she closes her eyes, her ears pick up on rich sounds — the met...

The crew freezes, then relaxes. The pause in the action allows everyone to take a deep breath before the climax: Priya Patel's bungee jump. Nitish is a storyteller, and for this shoot the story takes him hundreds of meters off the ground. He is strapped in, yellow harness, carabiner and all, and it's clear to everyone on the location that he'd happily leap off the precipice, too, and enjoy the adrenaline rush and the feeling of invincibility.
However, a few years ago, Nitish's story took a tu...

Priya Patel is at a film location, standing nearly 100 metres off the ground surveying the landscape. Her heart is going on a million beats per second, but she breathes in deep, steeling herself for what's to come. A production assistant checks and rechecks her safety harness before guiding her to her position — she scoots closer to the ledge's edge with her back to the canyon and takes another deep breath.
Priya is here, high up above the ground in Rishikesh, about to take on her first ever ...

Automation in IT is more real than you may think. But while it’s certainly groundbreaking, it’s also causing concern. Automation’s effects are typically felt at the entry level, killing off business and operations-related jobs and adversely impacting recruitment. With the slowdown in the Indian IT industry, the prospects have been looking a little bleak: Forecasts suggest that automation in IT may result in the loss of one in four jobs in India by 2021.
It’s easy to see why the Indian IT and ...

We hate to say it, but India’s $150-billion IT industry is going through tough times. Tens of thousands of Indian IT professionals are losing their jobs because of changing market dynamics and the IT skills gap. Several of the top Indian IT firms, including Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Tech Mahindra, have recently asked a huge number of their employees to leave.
It looks like a double whammy for the Indian IT industry. The services offered by the Indian IT companies are no longer i...

Indian women in the IT industry have indisputably made a place for themselves. With 34 percent of the workforce—that’s 1.3 million women out of a total IT workforce of 3.9 million—the Indian information technology sector has emerged as the second-largest employer of women. Sure, it’s better than the overall industry average of 24 percent, but a closer look reveals that women make up 51 percent of entry-level recruits and less than one percent of the c-suite.
If that was too long, here’s the g...