Panchayat has that simplistic bittersweet tone to it, that the entertainment industry left back in the 90s. It is like watching a Doordarshan show but in HD.

In total six women were elected in these local body poll in Tamil Nadu. The state is the 17th state in the country to allocate 50 percent reservation for its women in local panchayats and in urban bodies.

Surprisingly, the woman has been penalised by the Panchayat along with the accused. The Panchayat has found the survivor equally guilty for filing a complaint against the rapists with the Police.

While the Panchayat had ostracised the family right after the girl was allegedly raped by a lower-caste man, it accepted to take them back but only after the father hosted a non-vegetarian dinner for the entire village.

A 40-year-old woman in Mysuru has proved the adage — where there’s will, there’s a way — true. She was rushing her 75-year-old injured father to a hospital when she saw the road blocked by an uprooted tree. Instead of panicking and trying other roads, KR Kavitha cleared the tree from the spot. The incident occurred […]

The village panchayat of Bhopa, Muzaffarnagar handed a punishment of four slaps to a shopkeeper who allegedly attempted to rape a minor. According to a report in The Times Of India, a video of the girl’s mother and villagers slapping the 35-year-old accused went viral on Sunday. It managed to grab the attention of the […]

Haryana is a state that struggles with women’s issues — from representation to a widely-shared disastrous child sex ratio, to crimes against women, as this paper examines. It comprises of 21 Districts at present out of which 19 districts have sex ratio lower than 880. According to Census 2011 it has the worst sex ratio (877) and lowest […]