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
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
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
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
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
India, May 18 -- Days after she identified herself as one of the women who had accused Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, then the head of the Wrestling Federation of India, of harassing her sexually, Vinesh ... Read More
India, May 11 -- After losing a 16-year legal battle for justice for an acid attack in December 2025, Shaheen Malik knew what she had to do: keep fighting. Not for herself necessarily-though she has ... Read More
India, May 9 -- It obviously struck deep at my mother's core because she talked about it more than just a few times - how she had given up her fledgling career as a lawyer in Kanpur when she married m... Read More
India, May 4 -- When her mother noticed her 15-year-old's distended belly, she sat her down to ask a few questions. The teenager couldn't remember when she had her last period. A quick visit to the do... Read More
India, April 27 -- The clue lies in the queues. Women are everywhere. In Tamil Nadu, a record 84.69% turnout with female participation at 85.76%, overtaking male turnout at 83.57%. In West Bengal, wh... Read More