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GIRLS' EDUCATION
- A better life through literacy
- Struggling against the double whammy of caste and gender
- Where did all the women go?
- Educating India
- A mother's touch at school
- Barefoot auditors ensure health for tribal mothers
- When kitchen smoke can kill
- Good food from dry land
- To deliver on health, understand it first
- Health to the beat of drums
- Predicting rape on television!
- Casting couch vs workplace abuse: A thin line
- Who will cast the first vote for equality?
- Imprinting the women's view
- Sangham Radio making waves
- Should our anti-dowry law shield husbands too?
- Why Pooja got 'mad'
- Why dowry will not die
- A murderous arithmetic
- Hitting dowry for a six
- Voices from a wounded land
- A trend highlighted in the Jadavpur University moment
- In search of the missing link
- Are we just blind persons feeling an elephant?
- A law to help women, but who is enforcing it?
- Competing effectively in MP panchayats
- Discarding veils, embracing change
- Power dressing
- A law with flaws
- Many more Mayawatis
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Kokkarni, saviour of paddy
- Kokkarni, saviour of paddy
- Awakening the somnolent state
- India’s “third gender” enters poll fray with new hope
- Rape laws have changed, but what about the judiciary?
- Whose dynasty is it anyway?
- Why trolls have it so easy
- Anti-rape law: Can India get it right?
- A different destiny in writing
- Recording a woman's life
- Who is a feminist?
- A fuller record of our lives
- The guarded tongue
FEATS OF WILL
Ain't no mountain high enough!
Ain't no mountain high enough!
Nungshi and Tashi Malik from Dehradun have created history as the only twin sisters in the world to have scaled the seven highest peaks across the seven continents. Surekha Kadapa-Bose brings us the story of their feat in the face of myriad odds.
 WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Empowering rural women: Moving beyond 50 percentApril 2015 elections to Karnataka’s gram panchayats will see a high representation of women, given 50 percent reservation at all tiers, but how can one ensure real authority for women in local governance? The recently proposed amendments to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act may hold some answers. |
 CHILD SEX RATIO
When tribal India too begins to favour its sonsTribal societies and groups belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in India are traditionally known to have been relatively gender-unbiased, but recent reports and statistics point to a deteriorating child sex ratio in these communities, too. Shambhu Ghatak analyses the findings. |
 SEX WORKERS' LIVES
Where dignity is the first and most pressing needWhile debates over legalisation of sex work and rehabilitation of women in the trade continue without much tangible impact, sex workers themselves carry on the fight to win legitimacy, safety and social security. Pushpa Achanta brings us some voices from the twilight zone. |
 CYBER CRIME
How to avert the dangers of being an Internet userA recent UGC-sponsored seminar on the incidence of cyber crime, hosted in Kolkata, drew attention to the safeguards to be adopted as also the right procedure to be followed in order to obtain redress. Amrita Mukherjee reports. |
 FAMILY PLANNING POLICY
Sterilisation deaths: What’s new, after all?The death of 14 women in Chhattisgarh following botched sterilisation procedures has rightfully led to furore across the country. But a detailed, historical analysis of family planning as it has evolved, by Shoma A Chatterji, exposes an inherent and sustained gender bias in policy as well as practice. |
 WOMEN ON TOUGH TURF
The many battles that Kashmiri female cops fightA female police inspector from J&K, deployed in a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, has recently won a prestigious international award. Yet, her story holds little meaning for fellow women officers back home who fight social stigma, poor pay and gender bias at work every day. Shazia Yousuf reports. |
 RELIGION & JUSTICE
Muslim women fight patriarchal Sharia lawsSeveral women’s groups are now fighting the age-old gender bias perpetuated by Sharia law and finding ways to help Muslim women who have suffered due to its patriarchal dispensations. Pushpa Achanta reports on some of these, including one which proposes a codification of such law, reinterpreted. |
 VAW DATA
Visualising the many layers of a brutal world for womenDoes inequality engender crime? S Venkatraman presents a graphical exposition of data from a recent WEF report and the NCRB to unravel the many layers of inequality and violence against women in India. |
 GENDER & TOURISM
In search of the elusive female travellerMost Indian languages do not have a specific word for the female traveller. The traveller is by definition male, a fact that provokes Namrata R Ganneri to delve deeper into the gendered nuances of travel and its implications for women. |
 MATERNAL HEALTH
When expecting mothers fight graft to secure prenatal careIn Jahangirpur Gram Panchayat of Bihar’s Kishanganj district, Rs 30 lakh meant as cash incentives for pregnant Muslim women had already been misdirected, when a community-driven project launched by Oxfam decided to tackle the corruption head on. Ajitha Menon reports. |
 SENIOR CITIZENS
What it means to be old and alone in the cityElderly individuals leading solitary lives in our cities are desperately in need of an assurance of safety and a better support system, overall. Rakhi Ghosh speaks to a few such people in Bhubaneswar, as she tries to fathom their needs and expectations. |
 A TRIBUTE TO FORGOTTEN LEGENDS
In search of Binodini and her peersThe leading ladies of Bengali theatre in the late 19th and 20th centuries presented an intriguing portrait of women caught between two worlds, liberated in a way, yet shackled in others. A recent performance as tribute to these artists leads Shoma Chatterji to reminisce their lives and times. |
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