Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

Only 1 In 10 Film Directors In India Is Woman: Study

Women are greatly under-represented in the Indian film industry while their number as audience in theatres was far lesser than men, a study on Gender in Media says.  B...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Rural Households Have Higher Debt Than Urban Counterparts: NSSO Report

A new survey by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) shows that rural households have higher debts than their urban counterparts. At the same time, an urban house...

The Destructive Influence Of Imaginary Peers

We humans irrationally think we’re rational. We think that we decide how to behave by weighing the pros and cons. In reality, the strongest influence on our decisions...

Devangshu Datta: How Not To Fix India's Gender Ratio

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi recently suggested that sex determination during pregnancy be made compulsory; that the gender of the unborn child be reg...

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

Initiating A Dialogue Toward Inclusive Identities

“When was the first time you realised that you were a boy or a girl?”
This was one of the initial questions asked to ten year ol...

Un World Toilet Day: Urban Thoughts Cannot Develop Rural Cities, Says Experts

On the occasion of United Nations World Toilet Day, organizations like World Toilet Organization, Parmarth Niketan, Reckitt Benckiser India and Pehel- The Initiative, empha...