Govt shows interest in Depo Provera again
For the past three decades women’s groups in India have been fighting against the inclusion of Depo-Provera, the injectable...
Category: Debates
The bogey of ‘Muslim Terrorist’: A note on the Aleru encounter
By branding the Aleru encounter victims as terrorists, the police, the media, the judiciary and even the public seem...
Delhi CM Kejriwal’s message makes a mockery of the spirit of International Women’s Day
By Kavita Krishnan On International Women’s Day, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s has chosen not to give a...
Noted activists discuss their concerns over India’s Daughter in a letter to NDTV
The BBC Documentary India’s Daughter which has been banned by the Indian Government was the subject of a letter...
India’s Daughter is not an act of global solidarity
Film does not probe sexual violence as a systemic issue, opines eminent lawyer Vrinda Grover in her Facebook post...
India’s Daughter, a point of view
Leslee Udwin’s documentary India’s Daughter relies on emotional narrative but fails to form a coherent understanding of rape culture...
Union Budget 2015-16, through gender lens
By Vibhuti Patel The Union Budget (2015-16) has subsidized the corporate sector by providing the tax reductions and sops....
It’s risky simply to be a woman at all!
Kavita Krishnan argues that in the wake of the recent Uber taxi rape in the capital, blaming the survivor...
A risky freedom
Namrata Acharya writes about the plight of inmates of the rehabilitation home for girl children in Purba Medinipore, West...