To not be raped. To not be subject to dowry. The right to be acknowledged as their children’s natural guardian. Meet four women who forced the law to recognize these basic rights. A protest march can sometimes tell us just how far, or how little, we have travelled. In 1972 a girl called Mathura was […]
AAP’s failure would be a severe setback to any future would-be reformer. And any success of its increasingly visible vigilante-style politics will send absolutely the wrong signal of a ‘success formula’ to rival parties. In Birbhum West Bengal, a village decides that the girl must be gang-raped as ‘punishment’ for falling in love with a
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In death, people have ceased to be objective about late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. The life-size effigies strung up on lamp-posts were terrifying – at least to a child. In the late sixties/early seventies, they symbolised the South Indians who the Shiv Sena was determined to drive out of Bombay, as the city was
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