In Framing Change, Impact Stories

Destigmatizing Vasectomy: Naresh’s Story Is A Lesson In Healthy Masculinity

By Soumya Mathew 18th June, 2023

“In our childhood, there were two things we would commonly hear about vasectomy: one, that many people were forced to undergo sterilizations during...

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Change Starts With Young People. These Are Their Stories.

By Breakthrough Team 26th August, 2021

With empowered young people, change is possible. Nowhere is this more visible than in the stories of the young people who Breakthrough works with i...

In Framing Change

Engaging With Gender Through Film: By Students Of Bharati College

By Khushboo Kumari 6th May, 2019

Feminism doesn’t mean to stand against men, It means to stand for women. With this motive, Breakthrough’s sensitisation session was sta...

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5 Things We Figured From One Year Of Talking Online Harassment And Safe Spaces

By Breakthrough Team 20th December, 2018

1. When we went to Hazaribagh and learned about how men respond to women online   At Hazaribagh, we organised a pretty fun panel of experts wh...

In Editorial, Framing Change

A Breakthrough Programme Helps Students Learn About Human Rights

By Jagriti Pandey 30th August, 2018

“Out of the 30 human rights given in this chapter, you all are required to study only a few rights that are important for your examinations.” After...

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Why Parents And Children Need To Bridge The Gap

By Naina Atri 3rd August, 2018

Asking questions is considered to be an important aspect of a child’s psychological development. Regular interaction between a parent and child and...

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‘Stethoscope’: A Story About The Distance Between My Parents And I

By Mani Agarwal 26th July, 2018

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They fly away. And the cause of this very basic problem is a lac...

In Framing Change, The Breakthrough Voice

“If women go out to work, will men stay at home?!”

By Richa Singh 23rd January, 2017

“If women go out to work, will men stay at home?!”, said a man. There are a set of rules which form the bedrock of a patriarchal system. A public p...

In Framing Change, The Breakthrough Voice

#WrestlingWithKushti: Some thoughts from the shoot

By Piyush Garud 4th January, 2017

Masculinity means being tough, to not show emotions or pain, to be a breadwinner, to be the ultimate authority and to be a dominant part of the equ...

In Framing Change, In Focus

No Common Ground?

By Richa Singh 7th September, 2016

It was the beginning of a new day and it had had an early start. I had to travel to Panipat for a field visit from Delhi to get a better sense of B...