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Every parents' worst nightmare

India, July 6 -- Five caregivers at a daycare centre inside global IT major Capgemini's Brookfield campus in Bengaluru have been booked for subjecting toddlers in their care to physical and mental abu... Read More


'Survival is a daily act.': Indian women farmers' long wait for visibility

India, July 5 -- When Usha Kute's husband, a debt-ridden farmer, died by suicide in 2016, she inherited not just his half-acre farm in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district but a battle. She had to fight he... Read More


Why didn't she just say no?

India, June 29 -- Maybe she didn't want to 'shame' her parents by running off with a man from another caste instead of the one they had picked for her-according to what police say she told them. Mayb... Read More


Domestic workers, invisible rights

India, June 22 -- Two days after International Domestic Workers Day, Manish Gupta, a 50-year-old dermatologist, reportedly frustrated by his wife's refusal to sack their domestic worker for bringing "... Read More


Nation builders? No, just unpaid women workers

India, June 21 -- Sorry, your lordships. Women who labour at home to wash, clean, cook, bring up children, take parents to the doctor, go to the market, and do the countless other tasks of physical an... Read More


The girls cracking India's toughest exam

India, June 8 -- By the time she was in the ninth grade, Arohi Deshpande had decided she wanted to study engineering, and not just at any college but at India's top-ranked engineering college, the Ind... Read More


How women experience summers in the city

India, June 6 -- Gulshan wraps herself in a wet dupatta and tries to sleep. It is sizzling in the roughly 25-square foot room where she lives with her husband and four children. A tiny fan circulates... Read More


In her words: Dr Soumya Swaminathan

India, June 1 -- Only two Indian women have ever been elected Fellows of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy with more than 400 years of continuous existence. Coincidentally, both... Read More


What (yet another) death says about marriage and violence

India, May 25 -- Of the 16 women killed every day in India for dowry why has the death of Twisha Sharma on May 12 gripped us? We don't yet know whether she was murdered ( as her family claims) or die... Read More


More than correction of a medical misnomer

India, May 23 -- It's a condition that affects one in eight women around the world. Diagnosed through a matrix of clinical symptoms, ultrasound tests and guesswork, it has no known cure, has been hist... Read More