Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope

Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Help Us! Women In Indian Mill Pen Letter Describing Sexual Abuse At Work | Reuters

A letter from six women at a spinning mill in Tamil Nadu, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help, exposes the widespread exploitation of wom...

Kaleidoscope - Maid For Mumbai

It may or may not be true of other cities, but Mumbai moves on tracks built partly by the bais, the domestic helpers, mostly from rural Maharashtra, who manage homes, so th...

Kaleidoscope - An Enduring Romance

A play about marital infidelity has been winning fans over the years, instead of shocking conservative Indians. Bernard Slade’s Tony award-winning romantic comedy Sam...

Kaleidoscope - Of Human Bondage

In India, where a large section of the population is vegetarian, the hullabaloo over a women refusing to eat meat would seem excessive, but in, South Korean writer Han Kang...

Soha Ali Khan Speaks At FICCI On Women Empowerment

Summary: Education brings in security for the women and the more it is widespread, women will become more secured," "We try to adjust ourselves as per our convenience and f...

Chhattisgarh Communities Assert Forest Rights

Members of the Sanauli gram sabha show the woods chopped down by the Chattisgarh Van Vikas Nigam Credit: Shruti Agarwal A small Gond village in Rajnandgoan district of Chha...

This Week In Women's Sports: WSF Studies Gender Bias In College Sports, USWNT Loses In Court

This week the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) released the report, “Beyond X’s & O’s: Gender Bias and Coaches of Women’s College Sports,&r...