Mind the Gap

Credit: HT Print Shraddha Walkar had cut ties with her family when she walked out of home to move in with her boyfriend, Aaftab Poonawala in 2020. When a friend, Lakshman Nadar told her father in mid-September this year that he hadn’t heard from her for months, the father got in touch with the police. It was […]

At 9.18 pm on February 9, 2012, a 19-year-old woman working with a call centre at Gurugram’s Cyber City got off the bus to walk the remainder of the remaining 10-minute distance home at Chhawla Camp. Suddenly, to the shock of two friends who were walking with her, a red Tata Indica pulled up and

Credits: ONMANORAMA In a country where the “motherhood penalty” leads to young mums quitting jobs in droves, one working mother decided to take her three-year-old son with her to a public function to which she had been invited. The valedictory function of a film festival was held on a Sunday, October 30. In the video, Divya

On the 40th day after Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody for being ‘improperly’ veiled, thousands ignored road closures and marched to her grave in Saqez, Iran. The protests are being led by women. They are burning hijabs, cutting their hair, dancing and chanting: “Women, life, freedom”. Despite a brutal crackdown that has, according to one estimate left 222 dead,

In the rampage that followed the 2017 conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim for murder and rape, 30 people were killed, 200 injured and vehicles and public property were set on fire as his followers clashed with police. Rahim had been sentenced to 20 years of hard labour. In the five years since

No matter what he does, film, ad or a talk about intolerance in India, Aamir Khan has long been a red flag to the Rightwing ecosystem. The latest furor comes over an ad that follows a story line where it’s not the bride, but the bridegroom (played Khan) who enters his wife’s home. The outrage has followed

The Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion as a right available to all women regardless of their marital status is creating a stir – and, for once, it’s for all the right reasons. The ruling, passed by a three-judge bench of justices D.Y. Chandrachud, A S Bopanna and J B Pardiwala, “can inspire new benchmarks on reproductive rights

She’s an author, entrepreneur, speaker, mother and a proud feminist. Canada-born Eliza Reid, married to the president of Iceland, Gudni Johannesson is also a First Lady. Unshackled by protocol, Reid who once famously asserted that she is not her husband’s handbag is out with her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s extraordinary women and how

When Reena went into labour she was taken to the community health centre in rural Uttar Pradesh where she lives. By then she had begun to bleed and since the health centre didn’t have blood transfusion facilities, she was moved to a district hospital. Two hours later when she arrived at the hospital, she was

Source: letstalkconsent.com Most young adults know about the need for consent but struggle to negotiate it in their relationships, finds a recent survey by dating app Tinder. In fact, 70% of men said it was difficult for them to communicate effectively about consent, leaving partners in uncomfortable situations, found the survey of over 1,000 people aged 18-30

Same-sex couples and unmarried partners are entitled to legal protections and all the benefits available under social welfare legislation, noted a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court. Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna said family can also take the form of ‘domestic, unmarried partnerships, or queer relationships’ while hearing a case on maternity leave benefits. It was

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was speaking at a conference of state labour ministers in New Delhi. “The future needs flexible workplaces, a work-from-home ecosystem and flexible work hours,” he said. These, he added, are “opportunities for women’s labour force participation.” To my mind, no prime minister has ever openly acknowledged India’s two-decade-old crisis in women’s