Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

Deepa Gahlot writes in her review of Jodi Picoult’s, A Spark of Life, “Women’s reproductive rights have always been under thr...

Why I will invest in the Congress! Rudresh Kaul

Rudresh Kaul writes, “I have always believed that learning and sharing go hand in hand.”

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Iranian human rights lawyer jailed for 38 years and sentenced to 148 lashes

Iran has sentenced 55-year-old lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to 148 lashes and 38 years in prison over her defense ...

The official selection for the 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival

The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 14 to 25 May 2019, this year. The first look of Cannes poster ...

11 years and zero prosecutions: Justice, a forsaken promise in Kashmir

The Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a human rights organisation in the state, has compiled the data of 108 cases of ...

Madras High Court bans Chinese video-sharing app, TikTok

The Google and Apple app stores have deleted the option to download TikTok, a popular app for people to share videos of their own. Soon after t...

Let's keep the #JungJaari for Equality and Justice - CJP's Human Rights Manifesto for Election 2019

The upcoming general election is critical for human rights in India, given the recent surge of violations of rights that are constitutionally guaranteed for all Indians. Wi...

Who is Teesta Setalvad?

She’s simple, strong and she talks straight. She’s also one of the very few among us, who remains c...

Well-behaved women rarely make history

Mona Ambegaonkar is an Indian film and television actress. She has featured in over 15 plays, 18 feature films, 38 T...