Kotak Mahindra Bank has recently fired one of its employees for writing an objectionable post on social media. In the post, he is seen justifying the Kathua rape case and giving it a communal turn. The man allegedly expressed his happiness over the child’s death by commenting in Malayalam, “It’s good that she has been […]

Women get raped because they wear jeans. Women get raped because they are out after dark. Women get raped because they talk on the phone. Women get raped because — well, because men are not held accountable for their actions. The society may tell you how wrong you are as a woman and why exactly […]

In what’s a big story, India’s union minister for Women and Child welfare, Maneka Gandhi has demanded death penalty for the rapists of Asifa. She has offered to change POCSO act to bring death penalty for Kathua rapists. Her Ministry will change the POCSO Act, ‘will add death penalty for rapists of minors’. Asifa’s rape […]

As the abduction, rape and murder of eight-year-old Asifa shook the country, we all hang our heads in grief, shame and deep regret. Archana Pai Kulkarni says, ” That child is going to haunt me forever! How do the beasts do this?” Once upon a time, I was an eight-year-old like Asifa. It’s an age […]

The horrific rapes in India are now so common that every other day there is a Nirbhaya case. To me, in any case, no rape is less gruesome than another. How many stories right from the time of Suzette Jordan have we heard of women going up to the police station and being mocked for […]