Time to reimagine the Uniform Civil Code?
Source: PTI That hardy perennial, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), popping up with regularity ever…
Child marriage is India’s enduring shame. Positive interventions rather than arrests can stop it
On the first day of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “complete war” on child…
When I quit my full-time job, my then boss wanted to know why. I loved…
Is the Constitution a feminist document?
Image source: Google Almost 100 years ago, Sarojini Naidu, one of the 15 women members…
A mother’s courageous fight against the system
Trial by Fire quietly unpeels the dignity and grit of families who should never have…
The Big Story: How unrealistic ideals of body image are harming young women’s health
Alia Bhatt, Kate Winslet and 12-year-old me facing utter mortification when the pimply boy in…
The Big Story: What explains the shockingly bad behaviour of some Indian male passengers?
While details of the assault by a male passenger who urinated on a 70-year-old woman on a…
Not protection, women need autonomy, equality
A decade after a brutal gang rape in Delhi led to our toughest laws, the…
What women really, really want
For men to share the housework Thanks to the 2019 Time Use Survey by the National Statistical…
The Year-Ender Gender Quiz
1. Droupadi Murmu was appointed India’s first tribal, and second woman, president. Of which state…
THE BIG STORY: Teenage sex is a crime with a 10-year prison sentence. This is the law
Anjali* was 15 and was raised by her widowed mother when she met 19-year-old Shahid….
10 years after the Delhi rape case, we need a new rights blueprint.
In the decade since data has recorded a rise in numbers not just of rape…