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On any given day, there are eight to 10 brain dead people in ICUs across India. One donor can save up to seven lives, according to data by Fortis Organ Retrieval and Transplant. Yet, five lakh people in India die every year due to the non-availability of organs. On any given day, there are eight […]

Recent gang-rapes and our reaction to them tell us how far we’ve descended in six years after Nirbhaya Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat, lawyer of the Kathua rape case victim, talks to media after filling a petition in the Supreme Court, April 16. No action has been taken against the Kathua Bar Association lawyers physically trying

It has been reported that these godmen had planned to launch a Narmada Ghotala Yatra on April 1 to highlight a slew of ills from Chouhan’s apparent failure to stop cow slaughter to alleged corruption in the planting of saplings along the Narmada river. Ahead of the assembly elections due later this year, the BJP

The murder of a woman in Alwar points to India’s most shockingly under-reported story on why nearly 200 lakh women have quit jobs Neelam Jatav (right) with a colleague working on a railway track at the Gandhinagar railway station in Jaipur. Gandhinagar is India’s only interstate train station run entirely by women. India is one

At the heart of this controversy lies not so much the right of a woman to choose her religion and spouse, but society’s attitude to women Twenty-four-year-old Hadiya (In red dress) at the Supreme Court, New Delhi, India, November 27, 2017(Vipin Kumar/HT We should be grateful for small mercies. On International Women’s Day, a day

There’s a sickness infecting some of our boys caused by a toxic combination of over-indulgent parents, schools obsessed with ‘brand image’ and the normalising of sex and violence by mass media Parents and members of various organisations stage a protest near HAL police station demanding justice and strict punishment for the culprits who sexually assaulted

We are simply not prepared to grant daughters the right to choose their spouses, particularly in inter-faith marriages In New Delhi, Ankit Saxena made the fatal error of falling in love with a 20-year-old Muslim woman. In Kerala, Akhila Ashokan converted to Islam and, as Hadiya, married a man in accordance with her new faith.

All over the world, the responsibility of bringing up children lies disproportionately with women. A 2015 report by McKinsey Global Institute found that 75% of unpaid care-work – cooking, cleaning, washing, caring for children and the elderly – is done by women. All over the world, the responsibility of bringing up children lies disproportionately with

Padmavat has been cleared for release; its attempted censorship and ban comes from non-state actors and Vasundhara Raje’s decision to block its release in Rajasthan out of respect to the ‘sentiments of the people’ is meek acquiescence to these non-state actors I am not a fan of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and yet, watching his latest

A new generation of anti-status-quoists is unapologetic about its beliefs, unafraid about whom it is taking on and unfettered by the hackneyed script It was a year of assertion with disc jockey Varnika Kundu packing her VIP stalkers, including the son of the Haryana BJP chief, off to jail and thousands supporting her with the

Every woman has a story, the man who ‘accidentally’ touches her in the metro, the schoolboys who chase her in the park for sport, the masturbating pervert late at night on the bus. We learn to ignore it – rule #1 of the street: never, ever make eye contact – but sometimes it spills over

Just picking up a musical instrument is an act of courage for Zohra, Afghanistan’s first all-woman orchestra When the call came, she was home at Kunar for her holidays. Negin Khapalwak had just got admission into the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, the only music school in her country. But there was a problem. The