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Welcome to Sowers.
Sowers is a mission aimed at sparking off social change, everywhere. Our generation and society still hold uncharted territories of the Human instinct that need to be talked about more than ever before. We aspire to initiate discussions on issues that would otherwise be never heard about. We talk about them, we write about them. We are bloggers, photographers, documentarians and young visionaries on a mission to change minds before we can change the World!
Here’s What we do
Our Mission
Sowers was started in our hostel room because we felt the need to start a discussion on things that were happening around us. It grew from there and we feel it more than ever that our society needs to have a civil discussion about everything concerning our society, be it the political scenario, the socio-cultural situation or education system.
Our mission statement
To reach out to the young minds out there and start a discussion. To become a platform that helps in sharing knowledge and wisdom about issues that most greatly affect our society.
Articles
Prostitution: India and the World
A Brief History… Prostitution has existed in all parts of the World at some point in time. Looking into its history is a mind-boggling task indeed. The earliest known account of Prostitution as a profession is found in the Sumerian records, dating back to 2400 BCE. The Ancient Near East was the home of many […]
On the Streets of Meerganj | Prayagraj’s Red Light Area.
In an interview with two prominent NGO’s – Freedom Firm, Allahabad and the Guria Foundation, Varanasi that work to rescue women from brothels, both admitted to having been successful in shutting down the area. Though skeptic of this, I decided to visit that area recently on the lead of a friend who had earlier visited […]
Prostitution on the World map
Whether or not Prostitution is legal in a country is quite a superficial question. The subject of Prostitution is more like an onion; there are numerous layers to it. Exceptions are to be made and unsaid rules are to be followed in spite of the laws in place. Each country has a different set of […]
#2. The Joy of making Music: Being Men and Women in a world that is becoming increasingly androgynous
Growing up in the 90s, I was often subjected to phrases like, ‘Women aren’t lesser than men.’ A decade later, I was entertained by advertisements that increasingly promoted gender enmity– “Why should boys have all the fun?” Despite being born and raised in a household that seldom made me feel underprivileged because of my gender, […]
Polarized News: The reality
Indian news media has come a long way, from the Monopoly of one news channel (DD news) to 403 channels in 2018. It’s interesting to note that news and current affairs channels account to a whopping 45% of the TV Market share. With the increase in popularity of regional channels in recent years, news channels […]
Deepfake: A Tool that can be used to manipulate you.
As the line between reality and fake goes on diminishing day by day, Deepfake is just beginning to accelerate the process. An open source software was started by a Reddit user called Deepfakes. What exactly is Deepfake? Deepfake allows one to swap a face on a video using artificial intelligence and its just beginning to display […]
#1. To the entitled millennials who are sometimes unable to afford the ₹300 sandwich (including me!)
In May of 2016, Buzzfeed came up with an article which deeply resonated with my being. The Urban Poor You Haven’t Noticed: Millennials Who’re Broke, Hungry, But On Trend. I was in the third year of my bachelors’ and had to struggle most evenings explaining where I blew up all my money, to my mother. […]
Broken Butterfly – Seasons of healing | SOWERS Lifestories
Believe in yourself. Use more common sense. Just because it is a golden needle, does not mean you need to poke your eyes with it! Have a small circle with whom you can be your most genuine self. BE REAL NO MATTER WHAT!
NEWS : Then and Now
Back in the days… Gone are the days when NEWS was considered an essential commodity. Long before the technological and industrial revolution took place, the “journalists” of the time also yearned to report everything that happened around them. They probably traveled far and wide to witness what was happening and then painstakingly wrote the details. […]
‘In the Age of False News’ | Journalism that killed Gauri Lankesh.
Gauri Lankesh, Coming back home from work, this 55-year-old senior most journalist of India was killed on her doorstep by unidentified males who shot her multiple times. She worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her father P. Lankesh and ran her own weekly called Gauri Lankesh Patrike. At the time of her death, Gauri was known for […]
MeToo India: A Small Step For A Long Way Ahead
While sifting through my Instagram feed, I stumbled upon a weird video of the actress Rakhi Sawant in which she wears a chain and a lock around her waist. In the video, she mocks every other woman coming out with the stories of the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of men and disparagingly […]
Five News Outlets You Should Follow.
In this era, a large amount of information is being put out daily on the public domain for us to consume. A number of news outlets and individual organizations are involved in this process of refining facts. With such a humungous amount of information being poured out from all sides, the news media has become […]