India, Dec. 22 -- Weeks after being elected back to power on the strength of the women's vote, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's shocking act of forcibly removing a woman's face covering highlighted... Read More
India, Dec. 21 -- It seemed appropriate at the end of the year to hear the unmistakable sound of a glass ceiling crashing down. The blow was struck by a Supreme Court bench headed by chief justice Sur... Read More
India, Dec. 20 -- It seemed appropriate at the end of the year to hear the unmistakable sound of a glass ceiling crashing down. The blow was struck by a Supreme Court bench headed by chief justice Su... Read More
India, Dec. 15 -- Fiction or non? Entertaining or insightful (or both)? Racy or meditative? The year gone by has been made richer by those who wrote and contributed to our knowledge of the world, of w... Read More
India, Dec. 8 -- Marriage is having a bit of a moment in the news cycle. If Jaya Bachchan, married for 52 years, told journalist Barkha Dutt that marriage is an outdated institution, then her colleagu... Read More
India, Dec. 1 -- Yet another woman has died by suicide. Her brother says she was being tortured by her husband who routinely had affairs since their marriage in 2010. For 15 years, Deepti Chaurasia, m... Read More
India, Nov. 29 -- Had she seen the video, a colleague asked. She had not and when she did, she had to sit down. The 13-second clip had been shot, surreptitiously, by her then boyfriend, a year senior ... Read More
India, Nov. 24 -- She spoke about her own experience as an entrepreneur and mother-in that order. Upasana Kamineni Konidela was addressing a group of students at IIT, Hyderabad and happened to ask how... Read More