Population ‘Explosion’ to Low Fertility: India’s Demographic Anxieties Play Out on Women’s Bodies
Women continue to be treated as instruments to serve demographic goals rather than as individuals who have personal freedom.
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Pity, Contempt and Identity: The Difference Between the Hijab and the Ghoonghat
Both are oppressive tools but the Islamic veil becomes a catch-22 for the Muslim woman caught between patriarchy and prejudice.
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The Menstrual Leave Debate; Karnataka Govt Clears Menstrual Leave Policy: Welcome Step, But Very Few Women Will Benefit – 3 Articles
‘The Menstrual Leave Debate and the Silence Around Women’s Health in India’; ‘Karnataka Govt Clears Menstrual Leave Policy, Women Can Take One Paid Day Off Every Month’; ‘Left Behind: The Women Missing from India’s Period Leave Conversation’.
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India’s Worsening Gender Gap is Not Just a Statistical Concern, It’s a Structural Crisis
India’s performance across the four dimensions of the GGG Index economic participation: educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment, tell a story of stalled momentum.
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Indian Women’s World Cup Victory – 3 Articles
‘Indian Women’s World Cup Winning Team: A Mosaic of Unity in Diversity’: The world champions personified the spirit of unity in diversity, reflecting the very essence of India. Also: ‘A Cricket Victory with Grace and Without Macho Displays of Hyper-nationalism’; ‘Jemimah, You Are the Republic’s Pride’.
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Envisioning a Law for the Indian Woman: A Recollection
For the Indian woman, the family – the ‘man’s castle’ – has never been a safe harbour, never safe from violence.
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Dear Didi, It’s Not Night That Endangers Women; How Women Pay the Price of Honour – 2 Articles
‘Dear Didi, It’s Not Night That Endangers Women’: Most women are assaulted within their homes by people they know, so why curse the darkness? Also: ‘Izzat has No Daughters: How Women Pay the Price of Honour’: Izzat in its truest form is not a weapon but compassion.
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‘A Scooter for a Life’: The Unfinished Battle of the Woman Who Made India Rewrite its Dowry Laws
Satyarani Chadha, whose daughter Sashi was burnt to death in 1979, transformed private grief into public protest. With ally Shah Jahan, she forced India to strengthen its laws on dowry, cruelty and bride burning.
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Merci Gisèle! When One Woman’s Courage Challenges an Entire System
Last year in France, Gisèle Pelicot decided that the trial of the 51 men who raped her would take place in open court, rather than in closed session. The horrific evidence prodded French lawmakers to finally move to change the definition of rape after years of unsuccessful struggle by activists.
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Why the Sale of a Girl Child in Odisha’s Poorest Region Should Alarm the BJP Govt
In one year of the BJP rule in Odisha, there have been multiple and recurring incidents of atrocities on women including the recent death of 20-year-old college student who set herself ablaze because her complaints, accusing her teacher of sexual harassment, were not acted upon by authorities.
