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Domestic violence act: 20 years of power and protection

India, Sept. 19 -- The first time he hit her, they had been married for less than a week. After that the beatings became routine. Sometimes there was too much salt in the food, sometimes too little. A... Read More


Mind the Gap: Why Indian women sleep less than men

India, Sept. 15 -- The last time she slept for eight hours straight was before her daughter was born a year-and-a-half ago, Ashwetha Anil remembers. That now seems like an impossible luxury. Back at w... Read More


Mind the Gap: In her words: Safeena Husain

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


Why India's judiciary needs more women

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


Mind the Gap: The death and life of Nikki Bhati

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


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