From the inclusion of women in the lowest tier of Panchayat to nominating them as national leaders, it is essential to have decisions made by them at each level, says Harini Calamur.
The #MeToo movement in India has erupted. It began as a trickle with Tanushree Dutta, and now it is a roar of stories that form part of the experiences women faced in their place of work. The shaming of men who made advances, physical grabs, textual assaults, and who participated in a bro culture that […]
Sex and sexuality are talked in hushed down tones inside the closed doors of our houses among our friends and people who we trust. Actually sometimes not even with them. It is not a topic conventionally discussed between parents and children. Millennials are bringing it out of the closed doors in metro cities and trying […]
SheThePeople.TV recently hosted its Bombaywaali conference at the Cuckoo Club. A panel discussion, moderated by SheThePeople.TV’s founder Shaili Chopra, looked at the idea of the urban poor and whether Bombay is really a city where dreams can come true. Gayatri Jayaraman, author of the much talked about essay on Bombay’s urban poor, talked about how […]
Virani’s anger against the commoditization of the uterus, and its commercialization, is palpable
Prominent journalists reflect on the Barkha Dutt-Arnab Goswami spat that is grabbing headines
As women, we cannot achieve equality, until we recognize that men are as weighed down by gender roles as women are
Harini Calamur engaged with users of shethepeople.tv in a deep and interesting conversation around using digital to empower women. Here are the highlights of that chat. Our hashtag was #IAmADigitalWoman [View the story “How #DigitalIndia empowers women ” on Storify]
