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Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

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Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

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

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Karan Johar, Sonam Kapoor Come Out In Support For LGBT Rights!

The Supreme Court’s decision of reviewing the Section 377 of Constitution which criminalises homosexuality in India, was welcomed by the LGBT groups in the country. O...

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India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law

India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Right...

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Another Chance: The Supreme Court Holds Out A Sliver Of Hope That Section 377 May Be Legally Diluted

Hope flickers again. The curative petition on the Supreme Court’s 2013 judgment upholding Section 377 has been referred to a larger five-judge constitutional bench. S...

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Be A Hero Without Heroin’: Indian Police Tweet Threat To ‘Weed Out’ Drug Criminals

Police in Mumbai are proving they have a sense of humor as they take Twitter by storm with witty puns in their latest anti-drugs campaign.
The tweets are posted on the...

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Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

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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 ...

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The Darkest Hour

“Police records in India reveal that a woman is raped every 34 minutes, molested every 26 minutes, kidnapped every 43 minutes and killed every 93 minutes”
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Prime Time, Reality Bites

Prime Time has a plethora of fiction shows which are simply entertainment, entertainment, entertainment; barring the odd show or two. One can’t overlook the non-ficti...

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