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Abuse of anti-dowry law: Separating myths and facts

India, April 5 -- The use, abuse and misuse of section 498A - the provision in law enacted to protect women from domestic violence - has so exercised public imagination in recent times that it has ass... Read More


Mind the Gap: "I dig black," Kerala's top buereaucrat questions beauty norms

India, March 31 -- The senior-most bureaucrat in India's most gender-equal state had something to say to an unnamed commenter, who compared her tenure "as black as her husband's was white"-a reference... Read More


Mind the Gap: Mardangi reloaded: Why we need to change the narrative on 'masculinity'

India, March 24 -- A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Bagalkot, Karnataka for raping a 12-year-old girl. Three other boys, all of them class 9 students who filmed the crime, have also been arrested. I... Read More


Adolescence in the age of incel culture

India, March 22 -- They are talking about it on social media. Discussing it in British parliament where Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he supports a campaign for it to be shown in schools. Gripping,... Read More


The Wrestling Federation of India is back. But former boss Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh still faces criminal charges

India, March 17 -- For four months, four weeks and one day, their laser-focus protest had one demand: The ouster of their federation boss on charges of sexual harassment. In April 2023 when a governme... Read More


The Wrestling Federation of India is back.

India, March 17 -- For four months, four weeks and one day, their laser-focus protest had one demand: The ouster of their federation boss on charges of sexual harassment. In April 2023 when a governme... Read More