BJP leader OP Dhankar made a sensation when he promised the men of Haryana that if BJP came to power, it would get girls from Bihar for men in Haryana […]
The electoral promise of bride trafficking Read More »
What really gets my goat these days is the bull in china shop approach to women’s rights, which has a male dominated state and society trying to fix everything (sexual assault) – for
Gender Ghetto Politics Read More »
Extraordinary events ought to be documented somewhere, and when it comes to a media consensus, the secondary chroniclers of our era are bloggers. So I am looking at this moment
The #Tehelka Consensus Read More »
What Tarun Tejpal did at Tehelka’s iThink Festival seems to have more witnesses than it appears. In spite of the victim repeatedly saying she does not want to file an
FIR or Sexual harassment committee? #Tehelka Read More »
Tehelka stands on the wrong end of an outrage this time. Tarun Tejpal stands accused of sexual harassment of a young journalist during their iTHINK festival. While I don’t downplay
Tehelka: a bad lapse of judgment and awful misreading of Vishakha guidelines Read More »
Here is a look at various rates of crime against women by state/UT in India in the year 2012. Rate of crime is number od incidents per lakh population. Chosen
Comparison of crime rates for crime against women in India 2012 Read More »
Yesterday, when news that Justice Verma died of multiple organ failure hit, that was my first thought. An important force in reforming India to be safer for women is lost.
A setback to women’s rights in India: Justice Verma is no more Read More »
The following is the transcript of snippets of P. Sainath’s insights on democracy. I think there is much to think of here. Many thanks Atul Hirde for making this video
Transcript: Why Democracy – P. Sainath Read More »
I get a lot of these myths about women. Astonishing, because women aren’t yet so rare that people can’t simply look around them and find out truths. Here goes. Women
Those torturous women Read More »
