Bonded Labourers, Sex Workers, Forced Beggars: India Leads World In Slavery

India has the largest population of modern slaves in the world with more than 18 million people trapped as bonded labourers, forced beggars, sex workers and child soldiers,...

Sex Workers Defy Tradition: “Our Daughters Will Not Be Prostitutes, They Will Study.”

The Rajnat community relies on commercial sex work done by mothers, sisters and daughters to make ends meet. But these Rajnat women are determined their daughters will brea...

Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

Bollywood Celebs And Doctors Raise HIV - AIDS Awareness Campaign

1st December Tuesday marks 29 years of commemorating World AIDS Day, and in that time HIV has gone from a “death sentence” to a manageable and treatable chronic...

The Ethics Of Commercial Surrogacy: Gender Inequality Arguments

This is a follow-up to the previous post on Debra Satz’s analysis of commercial surrogacy. In that post, I reviewed three classic objections to surrogacy and presente...

As Mother, Stress On Immunization For Child's Healthy Future: Madhuri

After lending support to ‘Set Beautiful Free’, Vivek Oberoi and Amruta Fadnavis’ initiative for a rehabilitation centre for girl children born to sex work...

Amnesty International Backs Decriminalising All Sex Work In Historic Vote.

Amnesty International has voted in favour of a proposal that would mean adults who buy sex from prostitutes would not face criminal sanctions. The human rights organisation...

PERFORMANCES NEED RECOGNITION

If one?s watching a serial minutely, what one can?t overlook are those finely nuanced gestures from an actor. Sure credit does go to the director, and the actor merits it t...

Truckers Ferrying Deadly HIV Virus Into NE: Survey

Most truck drivers live an isolated life– far from their near and dear ones– for months together. And their carnal desires are mostly fulfilled by commercial se...