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Reframing the fertility debate as a women's rights issue

India, Nov. 15 -- The Supreme Court added its weight to the growing fertility debate. Laws aimed at limiting population growth "have now lost their significance", the apex court noted on November 4, r... Read More


An epidemic of violence by boys and young men

India, Nov. 9 -- Some blame films. Others point to video games. There is talk too of the manosphere spreading ideas of toxic masculinity. The epidemic of violence by men and boys is ongoing and deepl... Read More


An epidemic of violence by boys and young men Intro

India, Nov. 9 -- Some blame films. Others point to video games. There is talk too of the manosphere spreading ideas of toxic masculinity. The epidemic of violence by men and boys is ongoing and deepl... Read More


The battle over sex and gender identity reaches India's Supreme Court

India, Nov. 2 -- A contentious and deeply divisive debate over the difference between sex and gender identity officially landed at India's Supreme Court last week. A petition filed by the India branch... Read More


What happens when the act of reporting becomes an act of resistance?

India, Oct. 19 -- She says the senior police officer molested her at Jantar Mantar on October 3. The officer, assistant commissioner of police Vivek Bhagat counters that she used a casteist slur again... Read More


The right to loiter

India, Oct. 5 -- The slogans are new, invoking samosas, kachoris, chai and suttas (cigarettes). The message is as old as the nation: Women protesting against sexual assault. But with a added twist of ... Read More


Talking to men: A much needed conversation

India, Oct. 4 -- Rahool Goswami has been talking to boys and men about gender, equality and consent for the last 10 years. Patriarchy, he tells them, harms not just women but also men by squeezing the... Read More


Let women live. Lock up the men

India, Sept. 28 -- Comprehensive safety audit of all city parks: ordered. Increased patrolling: begun. Pink police: planned. Another gangrape in Delhi, this time of a 17-year-old girl at Aastha Kunj ... Read More


Reframing the women and work dialogue

India, Sept. 21 -- One woman said flexibility. Another wanted the ability to address issues like work-life balance "without being stereotyped as dramatic and problematic". A third said she wanted hig... Read More


The long, challenging road to gender equality

India, Sept. 20 -- History moves in cycles, and nowhere is this truer than in the movement for women's rights. Mihira Sood's debut book, Courting Equality: Landmark cases in the battle for women's rig... Read More