Two Delhi high court judges, Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar could not agree on whether marital rape should be criminalised. What they did agree on, however, was that the case could move to the Supreme Court since substantial questions of law were involved. The judges were hearing a bunch of petitions first filed seven […]
They studied in the same school and had known each other for 11 years. She is Muslim, he a Dalit from the Mala community. When they declared their intention to marry, her family said a flat-out no. On January 30, she left home and a day later married the love of her life at an Arya Samaj
After 21 years of service when Maniben Maganbhai Bhariya, an Adivasi women working as an anganwadi helper in district Dahod, Gujarat, retired on February 20, 2006 she was drawing a salary of Rs 1,250 a month. Based on this, Maniben was entitled to a one-time gratuity of Rs 14,423. Seven years later when even that
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India needs a focused fight that involves government, the private sector, and civil society. The government can pass laws and policies such as expanding paternity leave and providing tax breaks for companies that promote inclusion (Shutterstock) In 2017, when I began a 12-part investigation on women and work, people were surprised when told that Indian
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As the interfaith couple–Muslim man, Hindu woman–was about to enter the registrar’s office at Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh (UP) on April 18 to marry under the Special Marriage Act, they were accosted by a group of Hindu Yuva Vahini activists. This is ‘love jihad’ the group alleged. The man had befriended the woman on social media,
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In an event that got little public attention, the Greater Chennai Corporation launched a ‘gender lab’, the first such initiative by any local urban body in the country. Simply put, as the name suggests, gender lab is an experiment on what would happen, and what it would take, to design a city’s infrastructure keeping women
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It is our convenient, shifting attitudes to rape, our unrelenting focus on the victim, not the crime, that makes us all complicit. That an elected head of a state is part of this mob makes it tragic Victim blaming is not new. Survivors continue to be asked what they were wearing, why they were out,
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History books might not tell you about these trailblazing women but do you know who they are? 1. Everyone knows Savitribai Phule, the self-taught feminist reformer who is India’s first female teacher, fought for girls’ education, campaigned for widow remarriage and set up India’s first infanticide prevention shelter in 1853 where unmarried women could leave their
After qualifying for the final in 2017 World Cup and the 2020 T20 World Cup, the hope that women’s cricket in India had turned the corner was belied when the team failed to make it to the semi-finals for the first time since 2016. There was no shortage of talent from the experienced Mithali Raj
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For women who continue to fight for the equal agency, there is something primitive about this modern version of throwing down the gauntlet The time has come to say to men: We will fight our own battles. If you’re an ally, support us. If you’re not, get out of the way. (Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO) As
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Kanye West has been barred from performing at the Grammys due to his ‘concerning online behaviour’. Kanye, who now goes by the name Ye, is up for five Grammy awards. The incident that led to the rapper’s Grammy disbarment, and 24-hour suspension from Instagram, was a racial slur against Daily Show host Trevor Noah who had expressed
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The Karnataka High Court has upheld the state government’s ban on the wearing of hijab (head-scarf) by students in school. The three-judge bench pronounced judgment on a petition filed by some Muslim girl students seeking protection of their right to wear a head scarf in educational institutes. The girls have now approached the Supreme Court to challenge the high
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