A five-year-old child was allegedly tied and left on a hot roof by her mother because she didn’t complete her homework. How is this not torture?

Is it high time for schools to establish boundaries in student-teacher relationships with regard to unsolicited touch and inappropriate dialogue? 

While the country is finally addressing the issue of rampant sexual abuse faced by young girls, we must not take “bad touch” complaints from young boys lightly either. It is a fact that boys face sexual abuse too, but often issues like masculinity and misplaced notions about sexual abuse prevent people from seeing men and […]

On May 24, a 34-year-old female teacher was arrested in Chandigarh for allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy, reported HT. The boy was taking tuition from her The woman is a government school teacher. Both the boy and the accused are neighbours at Ram Darbar colony in Sector 31, Chandigarh. The families know each other […]

We often tell our children to be wary of strangers, but we fail to warn them about the sexual predators who might be going scot-free within the safe confines of family and home. Parents fail to warn their kids against those who might come across as friendly neighbours, tuition teachers, or acquaintances and family friends, […]

Guest Post by Amita Malhotra As we get set for our inaugural workshop next week, we have been reaching out to friends, colleagues and their networks to spread the word about the discussion. While, there have been some instances of people sharing their own personal stories of some form of abuse, there are also some parents […]