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Mind The Gap: In her words: Harinder Baweja

India, Oct. 6 -- When she was leaving on assignment to Kabul, my friend Harinder Baweja came to me with a strange request: Could she borrow some of my long-sleeved kurtas? Shammy, as she is known amon... Read More


Mind The Gap| In her words: Harinder Baweja

India, Oct. 6 -- When she was leaving on assignment to Kabul, my friend Harinder Baweja came to me with a strange request: Could she borrow some of my long-sleeved kurtas? Shammy, as she is known amon... Read More


In Bihar, the focus is on the woman voter

India, Oct. 5 -- It was Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi who made the announcement, on video conference, from New Delhi. Though the scheme is named the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, it was not ... Read More


In Bihar, the focus is on the woman voter

India, Oct. 4 -- It was Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi who made the announcement, on video conference, from New Delhi. Though the scheme is named the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, it was not ... Read More


Empowering Single Women in India: The Rise of the Ekal Nari Movement

India, Sept. 22 -- When Nirmal Chandel's husband died all of a sudden of a heart attack two years after their marriage, there was grief but also, overwhelmingly, claustrophobia. Back in 1989 young wi... Read More


Political parties have to be safe spaces for women

India, Sept. 21 -- Political parties are not workplaces, the Supreme Court has determined, and so do not come under the protection of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, or to use its cat... Read More


Political parties have to be safe spaces for women

India, Sept. 20 -- Political parties are not workplaces, the Supreme Court has determined, and so do not come under the protection of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, or to use its cat... Read More


Delayed justice to limited aid: The long wait for domestic abuse relief

India, Sept. 20 -- It's another working day at judicial magistrate (first class) Shikha Chahal's court 507 at the Saket district courts in Delhi. C is talking about the unravelling of her marriage in ... Read More


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