Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. We’ve come a long way from the days when parties promised free pressure cookers, mixer-grinders and gold for mangalsutras (Virendra Singh Gosain/HT PHOTO) THE BIG STORY: Everybody loves the woman voter Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement of […]
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Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. Under Indian law, sexual intercourse with a minor girl (defined as 16 years and younger) is defined as rape (PTI) THE BIG STORY: Love, sex, and agency On the face of it, it’s an unusual order.
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Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. Victims of acid attacks are almost always young women from socio-economic marginalised communities who have turned down men (Sanjeev Verma/HT) THE BIG STORY It’s a familiar tale. Man says he loves woman. She turns him down.
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India’s laws and the highest court have provided the direction. The challenge is to get its institutions to fall in line with the law The bullying of transgender kids is routine despite the Supreme Court’s 2014 NALSA judgment that recognises the “third gender” as equal citizens (Shutterstock) By the time she was four or five,
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