Human Rights

How Our Cities Are Violating The Rights Of Children

Air pollution, piles of garbage, open electrical wires and chaotic traffic are just a few of the hazards that children in India's cities negotiate every day. While these probl...

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Mumbai: Joining Hands To Fight For Women’s Rights

Priyanka Paul, a mass media student of St Xavier’s College, has used her art to start a discussion on social media. In a series titled ‘Goddesses’.THE molest...

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Equality’s Time Has Come

To understand the vehement opposition to 33 per cent women’s reservation in urban local bodies (ULBs) in Nagaland by male-dominated/all-male Naga tribal bodies, it is im...

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Around The World Women Struggle To Secure Land Rights, Own Less Than Twenty Percent

It’s 2017 and formal ownership of land for women still seems to be a distant dream, with women owning less than 20 percent of land in the world. This means that their cl...

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A Lesson For Bollywood: How Regional Films Are Tackling Land Rights, Championing Farmers

A villainous company. Corrupt government officials. A heroic defender of farmers emerging victorious from a fight over land. This is far from a typical storyline for Indian fi...

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Indian "Land Bank" Aims To Protect Farmers From Forced Acquisitions

A northern Indian state is setting up a "land bank" to allow farmers to voluntarily sell property in an effort to tackle forced acquisitions for industrial projects that often...

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Rajasthan Human Rights Panel Turns To People For Views On Live-In Relationships

Rajasthan state human rights commission chairperson Justice Prakash Tatia on Saturday sought public views on the rights of women and children under live-in relationships. He h...

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Chhattisgarh Forms State, District Level Human Rights Protection Panels

Facing criticism over alleged incidents of civil rights violations in insurgency-hit Bastar region, the Chhattisgarh government has constituted human rights protection committ...

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Gunotsav Feedback: Mid-Day Meals At Govt Schools Low In Nutrition

POINTING AT the low nutrition levels in mid-day meals (MDM) provided to government school students in Gujarat, the recently concluded annual school evaluation exercise Gunotsa...

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Start Looking At Children As Equal Citizens

It is often mentioned that children are the future of the world, of every country. What we need to think is, however, that children are also very much the present of the world...

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FILM CRITICS SHAPE INDIAN CINEMA

Film Critics And Indian Cinema…Perfectly-Unmatched!? India, the world’s lar...

July 22 2026

WHEN CLAY BECOMES LIVING POETRY

Arnab Banerjee finds out how Poettery founders Anubir Singh and Bhavana transformed hand...

July 21 2026

EDEN CREEK BENGAL REVIEWED BRILLIANTLY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Eden Creek, Bengal, Kaizaad Kotwal's compelling adaptation...

July 20 2026