Valuing Girls over Boys puts Young Girls at Greater Risk of Mortality

A new study on child mortality shows that sexism is cancelling out girl’s inbuilt biological survival taken as an advantage since the ear...

Public Restrooms – Can they be an Arbiter of Gender?

Public restrooms become a battleground for the Transgender. The familiar outline of Male and Female that mark g...

Righting a Wrong

Sexual harassment of women is coming out of the closet so to say and white male entitlement is getting a much-d...

Harvard’s Theatre Troupe opens doors for Women for the first time in 200 Years

Time and again, the staging of all-male theatre productions have uncorked an explosion of frustration from women actors, writers and directors....

Now Home Delivery of Government Services

The AAP government in Delhi launched the doorstep delivery of 40 public services for the people living in the n...

UN to screen ‘Love Sonia’ to mark the International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October

Love Sonia, a complex, inspiring, and harrowing tale of a 17-ye...

Kalpana Lajmi - As I knew her

Lalita Lajmi, Kalpana’s mother, called me on the 4th of September 2018, and asked me to help her with writing Kalpana’s speech, whi...

A Tribute to Kalpana Lajmi

"A woman filmmaker is a hustler who is constantly trying to sell herself." – Kalpana Lajmi   

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One Woman’s efforts to end Child Marriage in her Community

Malawi, a landlocked country in south-eastern Africa, has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the wor...