What do women do and whom do they trust, when their own homes are not safe havens? As per a study, home is the most unsafe place for a woman. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) study says that 58 per cent of female homicides in 2017 across the world were committed […]
44-year-old Pallaviben Jadav, a Dalit woman, was attacked by a mob for sitting on a chair at a school in a village in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat, according to reports. Accused was angry on seeing the woman sit on chair The incident took place at Valthera village two days ago. Pallaviben works at an anganwadi, a government-run nursery […]
Superstition still rules the roost in many parts of India. Recently, a four-month-old girl in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara was branded with an iron rod to cure her of severe cough and cold. When her condition worsened, the baby was rushed to hospitalised. A police officer stated that the girl from Rama Kheda village was branded with the […]
Last week, an infamous terrorist commander was killed by the Security Forces. This was one of many such insurgency operations over the week which lead to loss of lives involved in armed combat with security forces and resulted in the maker meeting his creations (allegedly being involved in terrorist activities) in troubled Kashmir. However, the […]
On Monday night, a 32-year-old woman was thrown off a moving train for putting up a fight against men trying to molest her.
A three year research project on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, led by Zubaan Books and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), culminated in the release of 5 books today, in New Delhi… with three more to be released next month. The project brought together 50 researchers and scholars across Bangladesh, […]
Doesn’t mean to sound fun or entertaining, because it really isn’t. Calling women witches has suddenly become commonplace in modern India. It’s like a reinventing the wheel, and going back centuries when logic was blinded by beliefs. Labelling women witches and hunting them down seems to have returned in states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh. Last […]
