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Mind The Gap: Why Indians fear love marriages

India, Feb. 2 -- "Families of those children who run away and have love marriages will face a social boycott," declares the bearded man reading from a long register. He elaborates on what this means: ... Read More


Corroding justice: Gaps in punishing acid violence

India, Jan. 31 -- For 16 years after being attacked by acid, after losing sight in one eye and after 25 surgeries, Shaheen Malik did not lose hope. There was heartbreak when a trial court in December ... Read More


Mind The Gap: A death in Manipur

India, Jan. 26 -- The 18-year-old* was a vivacious, fun-loving teenager who had given up studies to work at a beauty salon to support her family. Ethnic conflict between the majority Meiteis and the ... Read More


Mind The Gap: India's son preference endures, daughter aversion declines

India, Jan. 12 -- Ten daughters later, that long-awaited moment: The 11th child, male. Married for 19 years, the 37-year-old woman and her husband got their long cherished wish on January 3 when she d... Read More


Mind The Gap: Grok is on a global undressing spree. Can India stop it?

India, Jan. 5 -- On the first day of January, Kaveri, who has an active social media presence and asked only that her first name be used, posted an innocuous enough new year greeting with her photogra... Read More


Sexual violence and the unevenness of justice

India, Jan. 3 -- One of the challenges I face as a gender writer is to find stories of hope, aspiration and optimism. You can see it very often shining through in sports, in education, even in jobs an... Read More


Mind The Gap: The 2025 year-ender gender quiz

India, Dec. 29 -- 4. That's the actor Dileep leaving the Ernakulam District and Sessions Court after his acquittal in the case involving the sexual assault of a woman actor in 2017. What was Dileep ac... Read More


Mind The Gap: The good, the bad and the downright ugly: 2025 version

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


Ending the male monopoly in bar councils in India

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


Ending the male monopoly in bar councils in India

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