India, Sept. 8 -- I first met Safeena Husain, the founder of Educate Girls, in 2017 to talk to her about the link between education and women's workforce participation. Through the years we've spoken ... Read More
India, Sept. 6 -- Finally, the Supreme Court is working at its full strength of 34 judges. Only one of them, Justice BV Nagarathna is a woman. It's as good a time as any to remember that the last time... Read More
India, Sept. 1 -- In a country where 17 women are killed every day because of dowry, this one might have been completely unremarkable except for the fact that it happened, allegedly, in the presence o... Read More
India, Aug. 25 -- Indomitable, courageous, dogged. These are just some of the adjectives you will run into when reading about Nilam Katara, the now 73-year-old retired school teacher, who has fought a... Read More
India, Aug. 24 -- She had boarded coach B3 at Indore to travel home for Rakshabandhan. When the Indore-Bilaspur Narmada Express chugged into Katni station on August 7, her family was waiting on the pl... Read More
India, Aug. 23 -- he had boarded coach B3 at Indore to travel home for Rakshabandhan. When the Indore-Bilaspur Narmada Express chugged into Katni station on August 7, her family was waiting on the pla... Read More
India, Aug. 18 -- India's Independence is the story of sacrifice and hard-won freedom from colonial rule-a story worth celebrating. But the birth of a nation 79 years ago also witnessed the monumental... Read More
India, Aug. 11 -- It is said he wept after his conviction, that he begged the judge to go easy on him, that he was innocent, a victim of a "political conspiracy", that he was only 34, a good student. ... Read More
India, Aug. 9 -- Anchal Bhateja knew she was breaking a barrier as the first blind woman to appear before the Supreme Court in June this year. But, she says, she was "worried about how I would reach t... Read More
India, Aug. 4 -- It's a story playing on loop from Guwahati to Allahabad, Delhi to Meghalaya. The plot line is more or less the same: Teenagers in love. He's 18, 19, or maybe 20. She's 17 or 16. Every... Read More