Daughter-in-law Be Treated As Family Member, Not Housemaid: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has...

Kaleidoscope - Gone Girls

A couple of years ago, the mass kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria made headlining news the world over. The trauma of parents not knowing what happened ...

Silent

Deep inside every woman I have ever known across the many hierarchies that paint my world is vacuum; the result of an endless internal conflict that remains unresolved.

7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 201...

Calgary Underground Film Festival Offers A Halloween All-Nighter

It sounds like a dream assignment for festival film programmers, particularly those whose cinematic tastes run left of the dial. This Saturday, the Calgary Underground Film...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

Richa Chadda Campaigns For Ban Of Horse Drawn Carriages

Richa Chadda who has been travelling around the world for her film Masaan has now started campaigning for a cause that she really believes in. Richa, who is an ardent anima...

Sonakshi Sinha Stands Against A Cruel Ritual In Tamil Nadu.

Sonakshi Sinha has always been vocal about social issues and now the actress has stood for animals who become victims of a cruel practice. Tamil Nadu is infamous for a ritu...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...