‘De-Link NPR From Census’: 1,100 Women Write to CMs of Every State
Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi: More than 1,000 women from across a cross-section of professions and several rights groups have written to every chief...
Category : Society
Nirbhaya Case: Tihar Asks Hangman to Report Three Days Before Execution
Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi: The Tihar Jail authorities said on Sunday that they had asked the hangman to report three days ahead of...
Overnight Renaming of Campus Road After Savarkar Sparks Fresh Row in JNU
Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration’s decision to name a campus road after Sangh parivar icon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is...
Marquez’s Eréndira Inspired This Author to Write About the Identity of a Sex Worker
Reading Time: 9 minutes What is the identity of a sex worker in India? Is it a forbidden territory in a democratic society? Author, journalist...
Pendency of Rape Cases Is on the Rise in India
Reading Time: < 1 minute New Delhi: Even as Indian law provides for rape cases to be completed within a year through fast-track courts, there...
Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Sexual Assault, Rape
Reading Time: 5 minutes New York: Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced on Wednesday to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape after giving...
‘Thappad’ and How the Law Disappoints Married Indian Women
Reading Time: 9 minutes Portrayal matters. Cinema, in its quest to describe real-world phenomena, often ends up glorifying the phenomena it may seek to ‘objectively’...
Nirbhaya Case Convict Moves Court for FIR Against Cops for Alleged Prison Assault
Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi: Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, on...
Enlisting Gandhi Against Gandhi
Reading Time: 10 minutes Mahatma Gandhi’s last 15 months were consumed in running from pillar to post to restore peace and sanity in one scene...
The Kashmiri Woman Who Spent Her Life’s Savings on Stocking Sanitary Pads in Public Washrooms
Reading Time: 4 minutes Srinagar: Irfana Zargar, a 28-year-old from Nowshera in Srinagar, built her ‘Eva Safety Door’ sanitary napkin kit for women availing themselves...