Stalking, molestation and sexual abuse have become rampant at Benaras Hindu University. And finally women are raising their voice against it. Hundreds of students from the university gathered since Friday morning (Sept 22) to protest the campus authority’s apathy. On Thursday, a first-year student was harassed by three bike-borne men near Kala Bhawan within the BHU […]

The recent case of IIT Delhi implementing a regressive rule on its female students of Himadri hostel — asking them “to wear covered decent western or Indian attire” — is not an isolated one. Indian academic institutions have been imposing such draconian measures for a while now. What IIT Delhi did shows how expecting equal […]