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Mind the Gap: Unshakeable: Nilam Katara's fight for justice

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


Where's the freedom of choice for daughters?

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


Where's the freedom of choice for daughters?

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


Mind the Gap: In her words: Urvashi Butalia

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


Mind the Gap: How justice was served with Prajwal Revanna's conviction

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


Gender & disability: Need inclusion at intersections

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


Mind the Gap: How a law to protect children was weaponized against consensual teen sex

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


Mind the Gap: How free bus rides are changing the lives of women

India, July 28 -- Shobha, the mother of a daughter who needs fortnightly hospital visits for a chronic kidney ailment, is talking about how her life changed after the Karnataka government introduced f... Read More


After Coldplaygate, the world of moral lynchings

India, July 26 -- Are we done with our thin-lipped moralising over what some are calling Coldplaygate? You do know what I'm talking about, the video of the man and woman, he's got her in a tight cinch... Read More


Mind the Gap: The price of justice

India, July 21 -- The 20-year-old student told her college principal that her head of department Samir Kumar Sahu was asking her for sexual favours and, when she turned him down, began harassing her a... Read More