Ipsita Choudhury was born in 1995 in Kolkata and brought up in her hometown Karimganj, Assam. She has completed masters in Sociology from the University of Calcutta. She has also done one certificate course in psychological counseling from Basanti Devi College, Kolkata. She wrote papers on social issues while pursuing masters. Besides being an avid reader, she is associated with music. A few of her microtales were published online by pages like Half Baked Beans and Innervoice.

Role of Women in agriculture

Agriculture plays pivotal role in strengthening the backbone of a country’s economy. It makes growth prosperous and helps to control poverty. Women are the important agents providing a bulk of labor in agriculture which leads to healthy productivity. The labor of women in agriculture is often underestimated but the fact is without the role women
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Human Trafficking: A Gender based Social Injustice

Human trafficking is a serious global problem violating human rights of the individuals who are trafficked illegally by force. Trafficking in persons is more like a form of modern slavery where the individuals are transported to different places either within a country or abroad for using their labor in different sectors, sex trade and other
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Homeschooling of Children during Coronavirus Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has interrupted all the normal standards of living starting from personal to public domain. Everyone became more dependent on technology and virtual modes of living gained a significant position. In simple words, it can be said that the virtual world became more real. Just as most of the in-office jobs
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Amphan Cyclone: The Untimely Nightmare

Amphan is a super cyclone that devastated Eastern India particularly West Bengal, Odisha and also Bangladesh. It is the first strongest tropical storm to occur in the 2020 cyclone season and is the first super cyclone to hit the Bay of Bengal since the 1999 Odisha cyclone. On 20 May, 2020 Amphan made landfall in
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How Cafes are becoming more than food corners in India?

Cafes are modern forms of historical coffeehouses established for eating, drinking and hangouts. The English name café came from French which also derived from the Turkish word, kahve that means coffee. Earlier such eateries only served coffee. But today in the postmodern century cafes have turned into a more inclusive world. Today cafes not only
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The Idea of Global Governance

Daniel Bell, an American sociologist once thought that the national government is “inadequate” to solve bigger problems like the influence of global economic competition and the destruction of the world environment. But it has become “more than sufficient” to deal with simple issues related to cities or localities. (Anthony Giddens, 2012). It is quite reasonable
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The Role of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Women Empowerment

Self Help Groups (SHGs) are informal groups involving people of similar socio-economic background who perform common tasks together in a collective fashion. SHGs mainly consist of 10-20 women or men from the underprivileged section who work together and save an amount of money from their earnings in a common fund. The members of the group
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Prospects of Cultural Unity in India

The term culture itself is very inclusive and covers a much boarder area. The concept includes both material and non-material objects. Both the material and non-material ones mark the identity of a definite group. The material culture includes weapons, art, ornaments, buildings, monuments and everything that is tangible and can be touched whereas the latter
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The Influence of Social Media on Millennials

Social media involves various websites and applications (apps) which are easily available in the electronic gadgets like tabs, smartphones, laptops, computers etc for public use. Starting from sharing contents to creating different types of contents has become the main basis of using any social media platform. Social media websites have made information quickly accessible and
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Can Face Masks be dangerous too despite being protective?

Putting on face masks, shields before faces, gloves, etc have become a new normal after being hit by the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) of 2020. Most of the countries have made it mandatory to wear a face mask to avoid the impact of the contagious disease. The way the deadly virus started spreading rapidly across
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