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Mind The Gap: Grok is on a global undressing spree. Can India stop it?

India, Jan. 5 -- On the first day of January, Kaveri, who has an active social media presence and asked only that her first name be used, posted an innocuous enough new year greeting with her photogra... Read More


Sexual violence and the unevenness of justice

India, Jan. 3 -- One of the challenges I face as a gender writer is to find stories of hope, aspiration and optimism. You can see it very often shining through in sports, in education, even in jobs an... Read More


Mind The Gap: The 2025 year-ender gender quiz

India, Dec. 29 -- 4. That's the actor Dileep leaving the Ernakulam District and Sessions Court after his acquittal in the case involving the sexual assault of a woman actor in 2017. What was Dileep ac... Read More


Mind The Gap: The good, the bad and the downright ugly: 2025 version

India, Dec. 22 -- Weeks after being elected back to power on the strength of the women's vote, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's shocking act of forcibly removing a woman's face covering highlighted... Read More


Ending the male monopoly in bar councils in India

India, Dec. 21 -- It seemed appropriate at the end of the year to hear the unmistakable sound of a glass ceiling crashing down. The blow was struck by a Supreme Court bench headed by chief justice Sur... Read More


Ending the male monopoly in bar councils in India

India, Dec. 20 -- It seemed appropriate at the end of the year to hear the unmistakable sound of a glass ceiling crashing down. The blow was struck by a Supreme Court bench headed by chief justice Su... Read More


Absolutely the best books by women in 2025

India, Dec. 15 -- Fiction or non? Entertaining or insightful (or both)? Racy or meditative? The year gone by has been made richer by those who wrote and contributed to our knowledge of the world, of w... Read More


Bucking global trends, marriage in India endures. Here's why

India, Dec. 8 -- Marriage is having a bit of a moment in the news cycle. If Jaya Bachchan, married for 52 years, told journalist Barkha Dutt that marriage is an outdated institution, then her colleagu... Read More


Mind The Gap: In a world that normalises violence against women, digital violence is a new threat

India, Dec. 1 -- Yet another woman has died by suicide. Her brother says she was being tortured by her husband who routinely had affairs since their marriage in 2010. For 15 years, Deepti Chaurasia, m... Read More


When the internet allows weaponisation of intimacy

India, Nov. 29 -- Had she seen the video, a colleague asked. She had not and when she did, she had to sit down. The 13-second clip had been shot, surreptitiously, by her then boyfriend, a year senior ... Read More