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Narrating Nature By Swadha Rawat    A Short Note on this Poem  5th June is World Environment Day and in this time of reckless consumerism, rampant pollution and strictly online activism, the question looming over us is : what will the environment and nature and all this biodiversity look like for our children? Will it still exist? I'm sixteen and for almost half my life, the go to thing I'd watch was Animal Planet or National Geographic. I grew up watching Bindi the Jungle Girl and on my tenth birthday, instead of celebrating it, I wanted to go to an animal sanctuary and see what tigers looked like out in the wild, not through a screen.  I could go to Ranthambore National Park and see nature but can the next generation, or the one after that? The Convention on Biological Diversity concluded that up to 150 species are lost everyday. Yes, even today. Even on World Environment Day. The reality is bleak. Our water is polluted, our air unbreathable, our forests are ...

  Feminism Fact Check By Swadha Rawat Photo by Wallace Chuck via Pexels (Alternatively this can be read with hyperlinks to my sources at:  https://medium.com/@swadharawatwork/feminism-fact-check-39deda4bd6bd )  A while ago, one of my friends forwarded a video to me which was trending all over social media. To be completely honest, when I first watched it, I didn’t think it was that big a deal simply because people can’t possibly be that ignorant. Apparently, they are. That Instagram video which was created by Divyangna Trivedi now has 1.2 million views and there’s a follow up video too. People all over India went gaga about it, praising her for ‘exposing the truth of Feminism’. No. That is not what that video is about. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, it's called ‘I AM AGAINST TODAY’s feminism’. That is the actual title, and the views illustrated in it are more questionable than the above capitalisation structure. Now, Divyangna Trivedi is studying law. She say...