How TCS Nashik Case Was Turned from Probe into Communal Narrative
As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse.
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Fascism | Gender Issues | India | Online Blog
PM Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Much Earlier Over Bigger Failures – 3 Articles
‛Not for Failure to Push Bills Through Parliament, Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Over Bigger Failures’; ‛Please, Modi ji, Don’t Shed Tears for India’s Women’; ‛BJP’s “Men’s Reservation Bill” Defeated, But When Will Women’s Reservation Win?’.
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Withdraw the Regressive Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 – 5 Articles
‘Withdraw Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 Now’; ‘The Curious Logic of the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill’; ‘The Transgender Bill Doesn’t Amend Rights, It Erases Us’; ‘Satrangi Salaam: A Community-Led Protest Against the Amended Transgender Law’; ‘Petition Urges President to Withhold Assent to the Regressive Bill’.
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Rainbow Representation Reaches India: A New Moment in Democratic Politics; The History of LGBTQIA+ Leaders – 2 Articles
‘Rainbow Representation Reaches India: A New Moment in Democratic Politics’. Also: ‘The History of LGBTQIA+ Leaders’: The melting of homo-ostracism is not just a victory for the LGBTQIA+ community; it is a victory for the principle that in a true democracy, the only thing that should be “incompatible with tradition” is the exclusion of its own citizens.
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Women’s Reservation or Political Recalibration? Unpacking the Modi Govt’s Push – 2 Articles
‘Is Modi Govt Fast-Tracking Women’s Reservation Bill to Push Delimitation, Which It Is Finding Tough to Sell?’. Also: ‘The Many Angles to Implementing Women’s Reservation in Politics’: Is women’s reservation being used to push Lok Sabha expansion to 816? The Nari Vandan Adhiniyam must not be instrumentalised.
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On International Women’s Day: Kollontai’s Extraordinary Politics vs the Right’s War on Women – 2 Articles
‘Falling in Love Again: The Extraordinary Politics of Alexandra Kollontai – Book Review’: Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been. Also: ‘The Right’s War on Women’.
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On International Women’s Day: The Struggle of India’s Women Workers – 2 Articles
‘Invisible Hands, Unrecognized Labour: India’s Domestic Workers and the Limits of Women’s Empowerment’; ‘Women Without Work: Capitalism, Care Labour and India’s Failed Growth Model’: India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates among major economies.
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Poora Sach: The Story of the Journalist Who Exposed Gurmeet Ram Rahim and Paid with His Life
In 2002, when larger media organisations refused to publish allegations against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a small-town newspaper editor did. Ram Chander Chhatrapati paid with his life. This story revisits the extraordinary courage of local journalists who challenged a powerful godman.
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Torture Trumps Tradition: Can Religion or Custom Give Female Genital Mutilation a Carte Blanche?
On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, this two-part series explores how international law recognizes FGM as torture—and why, as a jus cogens norm, the prohibition against torture cannot be derogated from under any circumstances.
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On Being Female in a Potentially Fascist Country
“I look around at what’s happening in our country and worry that we may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed”, writes the author.
