The electoral promise of bride trafficking
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…
Women in India
Gender Ghetto Politics
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 e…
FIR or Sexual harassment committee? #Tehelka
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…
Tehelka: a bad lapse of judgment and awful misreading of Vishakha guidelines
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 fe…
Those torturous women
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. H…
Debunking the “Misuse of Dowry Act” misogynist bandwagon
There is this group of men and women on the internet who seem to have a deep and abiding contempt for the Section 498A of the IPC – the Dowry Act. Thi…
Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta, I demand you resign
Diyar B K Gupta, Your recent recommendation to women to not go out alone at night stinks of a part of the reason women are not safe at night in Delhi.…