Razdan has also won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism for reporting from Jammu and Kashmir and north-eastern India and the Jammu and Kashmir State government has also awarded her for excellence in journalism

Recently, Indian newspapers and news channels got a rap from the Delhi High Court for disclosing the identity of the Kathua gang rape and murder case victim. The court was not happy that victim’s photograph and personal details had been made public by various media houses. However, when the Times of India contacted some survivors for an […]

The lawyer for five of the eight accused rapists, Ankur Sharma, reportedly made some distasteful remarks about the Kathua case’s only female investigator Shwetambri Sharma. Sharma is the only female officer in the Special Investigative Team (SIT) of the Crime Branch, in the investigation of Kathua rape and murder case. But her investigation has not been […]

The Kathua and Unnao cases have divided many Indians on the basis of their political inclination and hampered our fight to counter the rape culture. This right and left inclination has led to much whataboutery and “holier than thou” statements from the various political outfits and their followers. If sexual crimes against women and girls […]

In times when a horrific rape and murder trial is fanning communal distress, the lawyer fighting the case is ironically a Kashmiri Pandit woman. Deepika Singh Rajawat is the advocate of Mohammad Akhtar from Kathua village in Jammu fighting to get justice for his eight-year-old daughter. Rajawat is not just fighting for justice but also the prejudices, […]

As protests across the country seek immediate action and justice for rape and murder of 8-year-old Kathua and the Unnao rape survivor, Arpita Das of Yoda Press shares her experience from the protests at Jantar Mantar yesterday. “Every part of the protest yesterday was rousing and gave me goosebumps, but something I saw as I prepared to leave made me […]