THE MITTI KI SONDHI KHUSBHOO SMELLS OF BLOOD

The tragic and horrifying details coming from Manipur remind Shabnam Hashmi about Gujarat 2002. Wasn’t it predictable th...

HOW CAN YOU CELEBRATE WHEN YOUR COUNTRY BURNS?

The video surfacing reveals the torture and humiliation that not just the two women faced but thousands in Manipur have while the government re...

WOMEN OF STEEL

Some among us could be talking about the conditions of prisons in the country, and the various challenges faced by inmates, but only a handful ...

Remission Granted To Bilkis Bano's rapists: Is it fair?

The Bilkis Bano was gang raped and her family killed. The accused were recently granted remission. The case has been raging for some time now. ...

Merely because the act is horrific…

Humra Quraishi recalls the horrors of the 2002 riots in Gujarat in wake of the release of the convicted rapists and murderers ...

Signs of the times: Not afraid of the dark

Humra Quraishi describes one part of the apocalypse we are experiencing in India right now – only one part.

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Has Justice for Women in India Improved?

In 1890, a case of a Bengali child bride named Phulmani, who died following brutal conjugal intercourse went to trial in the Calcutta Sessio...

These 15 Events Prove That 2015 Was A Good Year For Gender Equality In India

It’s been three years since December 16th, 2012. Three years since India was plunged into a social revolution of sorts, when the brutal gangrape of a 23 year old stud...

Government to take up zero tolerance policy towards violence against women

Amid public outrage over gang rape and murder of two girls in north Indian state Uttar Pradesh, the Narendra Modi government Monday vowed “zero tolerance” polic...