Isha Jain is a reporter and producer for Almost and is based in Delhi. Contact this reporter at isha@almostmag.co.
Activism
18-year-old Divya Deshmukh’s post inspired other women chess players to come forward to share their own stories of discrimination and harassment.
Video
FGM involves the partial or complete removal of the female genitalia and can cause lifelong health complications.
Featured
Poonam Pandey said while she didn’t die of cervical cancer, she could not say that about the hundreds of thousands of women who did.
Activism
Millions of people are protestig against the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and its plan to mass deport millions of refugees and immigrants, including those with citizenship.
Cute
Prince Abdul Mateen, who is sixth in line to the throne, is a trained helicopter pilot, a major in the Royal Brunei Air Force and a polo athlete.
Climate
The video has raised concern that the floods could allow the fire ants, which are one of the world’s worst invasive species, to travel to new places and spread across Australia.
Activism
In 2021, Mongkhon Thirakhot shared posts from several Western TV shows on Facebook that included jokes about the Thai king, his wife and their dog.
Activism
““We, as South Africans, will not be passive bystanders and watch the crimes that were visited upon us being perpetrated elsewhere.”
Video
Protesters say that Netanyahu’s government has not taken sufficient measures to ensure the hostages are released and are calling for new elections.
Video
“Keep our country out of your mouth.”
LGBTQ
34-year-old Attal gained popularity as the government’s spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic and was later appointed education minister, when he banned Muslim women from wearing abayas in schools.
Featured
Hundreds of people could be seen shouting “Present!” in response to someone yelling “For all fallen comrades”, a common rallying cry at neo-fascist events in Italy.