THE BIG STORY: What the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard verdict tells us about the price of speaking up (and related cautionary tales)
The seven member jury, two women and five men, in a Virginia courtroom has reached…
THE BIG STORY: How sex workers won the right to dignity
Declaring that the ‘basic protection of human decency and dignity extends to sex workers and…
THE BIG STORY: Anatomy of a fake encounter
On the night of November 27, 2019, a 26-year-old veterinary assistant surgeon working at a…
THE BIG STORY: He said/He said
Two Delhi high court judges, Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar could not agree on…
THE BIG STORY: Dying for love
They studied in the same school and had known each other for 11 years. She is Muslim,…
THE BIG STORY: How five Adivasi women and a Gandhian activist scored a huge win for anganwadi workers
After 21 years of service when Maniben Maganbhai Bhariya, an Adivasi women working as an…
Why women are missing out on jobs .
India needs a focused fight that involves government, the private sector, and civil society. The…
THE BIG STORY: FAQs on love jihad
As the interfaith couple–Muslim man, Hindu woman–was about to enter the registrar’s office at Moradabad,…
THE BIG STORY: Designing cities with women in mind
In an event that got little public attention, the Greater Chennai Corporation launched a ‘gender…
Focus on the crime, not on the rape victim
It is our convenient, shifting attitudes to rape, our unrelenting focus on the victim, not…
THE BIG QUIZ
History books might not tell you about these trailblazing women but do you know who…
India’s women in blue: waiting for their time to come
After qualifying for the final in 2017 World Cup and the 2020 T20 World Cup,…