On May 29, Maneka Gandhi, Union Women and Child Development Minister, in a letter to the Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, sought the blocking of a website which claims to calculate dowry amount for prospective grooms. She also demanded action against its developers. Website “dedicated to all match-making aunties of India” Gandhi pointed out […]

A 24-year-old pregnant woman, who went missing earlier in the week from her house in Greater Noida’s Bisrakh, has been found dead. Her body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, as per reports by The Hindu. Dowry death? The deceased woman’s family has accused her husband and in-laws for the horrific crime. According to […]

The National Crime Bureau released its 2017 report yesterday, and for the first time in months, our outrage did not seem directionless. There is a need to dissect this data on every level. So that we can understand, in what direction we as a nation and society are going. However, one statistic from this data […]