Khattar Celebrates Haryana’s Improved Sex Ratio By Cracking Sexist Joke

Leaders like Khattar and Saini are a symptom of India’s misogynist mindset, which wants brides but not daughters.
Leaders like Khattar and Saini are a symptom of India’s misogynist mindset, which wants brides but not daughters.
Positive reinforcement does seem like a good strategy, something which needs to be explored by researchers, especially in context of Indian society and values. But is deification of women the correct way to proceed?
Meet India’s bikers on a mission. Reclaiming their spaces, driving their passions and touching new goals. This trio is one badass lot. Dr. Sarika Mehta, Jinal Shah, and Rutal Patel are the three women who call themselves ‘Biking Queens’ and they are prepared to spread the message of ‘Nari Gaurav‘ (women pride) across the world. […]
Karnataka girl, Rekha V surprised everyone after scoring 90.3% in the recently announced II PUC examination results. II PUC course is a pre-university course which is an intermediate course (known as 10+2) of two years’ duration, conducted by state education institutions or boards in India. Rekha was forced by her mother to get married two […]
Virendra Kumar, Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development, while responding to a question on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme told the Lok Sabha recently that the government had allocated Rs 648 crore for the programme in the last five years, of which Rs 364.66 crore was spent on advertising and Rs 159.18 crore was […]
Female Infanticide is a concern that we must look at very deeply. At a national conference for the government’s Beti Bachao Beti Padhao initiative, women and child development minister, Maneka Gandhi talked about a district collector’s effort to save unwanted girl children. Gandhi recollected an incident where the said collector promoted the idea “ladki ko […]
At a press conference today, the brand ambassador for the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao mission, Amitabh Bachchan was asked his views about the heinous rapes that have shaken the country in the past month. But before I go onto what he had to say, let me jog your memory a bit, dear reader. It is […]
The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign and other initiatives for the girl child may be working, but they are yet to change people’s mindset. Although there has been a decline in child marriages, certain sections of society still do not consider child marriage a serious crime. A 15-year-old girl from Bihar managed to stop her impending […]
लुधियाना स्थित बाल चिकित्सक और लेखक डॉ हर्षिंदर कौर ने 300 से ज्यादा लड़कियों को अपनाया है और पंजाब में महिला कन्या भ्रूण हत्या की बुराई से लड़ने में 15 साल बिताए हैं। उन्होंने अपने काम के लिए धीहीन पंजाब दि सम्मान, भारत सरकार से रानी झांसी पुरस्कार, अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला अधिकार कार्यकर्ता पुरस्कार, भगत पुराण […]
A three-day photo exhibition was organised in Chandigarh, featuring works of over forty photojournalists from Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Amritsar. The photographs celebrated the girl-child and womanhood. Forty photojournalists mount a three-day exhibition to celebrate the girl child… https://t.co/wLyd6pTjCz — NewsWallet (@newswalletapp) July 9, 2017 Organised by the Photojournalist Welfare Association(PJWA), the exhibition was under the […]