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                                                MAKE GREEN CHOICES            What Is Fast Fashion and Why Is It So Bad? Fast fashion is a relatively new phenomenon in the industry that causes extensive damage to the planet, exploits workers, and harms animals. Here’s why it’s best to steer clear when you can. A tragic reality check for fashion Fashion wasn’t always as destructive of an industry. Clothes shopping used to be an occasional event—something that happened a few times a year when the seasons changed or when we outgrew what we had. But about 30 years ago, something changed. Clothes became cheaper, trend cycles sped up, and shopping became a weekly hobby for many. Enter fast fashion and the global chains that now dominate our high streets and online shopping. But what is fast fashion? Why is fast fashion so bad? And how ...

          22-year-old Archana graduated in Computer Applications, worked in a call center. She loved her work. After working for about two years, she got married to a man named Rakesh. Being the only son of his parents, Rakesh was running his own shop. Rakesh's father Shyamsunder, a retired school teacher, owned a five acre plot of land in their village. Mother Veena took care of the housework. Everyone was together. Rakesh was staying in a room on the first floor of the house. His parents in a room on the ground floor. There was a hall, kitchen and puja room on the ground floor. At the back of the house there was a large space with a small garden. Steps were made to go to the terrace of the house.  As soon as Archana reached her husband's house, her mother-in-law, father-in-law and husband warned her not to work anywhere outside, because no girl child is sent to work in their family. They imposed a strict restriction that she should stay at home and d...

  Satish was working as an artist in an advertising company in a big city. At the age of 40, he divorced his wife and lived alone in a huge multi-storey apartment. He had not rented the apartment in his name but was living in the name of someone else who had rented it. A 36 year old woman, named Meera was working as a copywriter in Satish's  advertising company.  Meera, who was from Uttar Pradesh, was married off as a child and her husband had died several years ago. As no one in her town was ready to remarry Meera, she left her town and came to the metropolis in search of work. Her widowed mother was alone in her house. Meera was living in a PG. Over time, Satish and Meera began to fall in love with each other. When both of them were thinking of getting married, Satish said, 'We should not get married right away as your and mine's previous marriages have already ended in misery. Let's live together for a couple of years and get married, if we are compatible,'...

          She was the only daughter of her parents and lived with them in Vasant Kunj area of Delhi. Soumya, who was very smart at work, won the appreciation of her colleagues and superiors and was promoted within a few days. She used to travel daily 20 km in her own car from home in South Delhi to her office. Even though her office officials told her not to go home alone at night, she said, 'I was born and brought up here, I have no fear here' even in the middle of the night she used to travel alone. It was on 29th September. She was working in the night shift. By the time Soumya finished her work, it was 3 AM on the 30th September. Before leaving the office as usual, Soumya called her father Viswanathan and told him that she was leaving in a few minutes and would be back home in three quarters of an hour. When Soumya didn't come home after four hours, Viswanathan panicked and called her on her mobile phone. The phone kept ringing. No one answered. Later, ...