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GIRLS' EDUCATION
- Girls get the power to refuse child marriage
- Why rural girls need more than just sanitary napkins
- A better life through literacy
- Struggling against the double whammy of caste and gender
- Where did all the women go?
- Pro-life or pro-women’s rights?
- What’s turning women in labour away from hospitals?
- Barefoot auditors ensure health for tribal mothers
- Sterilisation deaths: What’s new, after all?
- When kitchen smoke can kill
- Where hidden identities wait for justice
- Should films have statutory warnings on violence against women?
- The strange tale of the 'son' who wasn't!
- Predicting rape on television!
- Casting couch vs workplace abuse: A thin line
- 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
- Manipuri mothers want an end to the killings
- What to expect when you watch the most talked-about film today
- Give us the strength!
- Visualising the many layers of a brutal world for women
- Voices from a wounded land
- Empowering rural women: Moving beyond 50 percent
- Competing effectively in MP panchayats
- Discarding veils, embracing change
- Power dressing
- A law with flaws
- Must women play football in sarees?
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Awakening the somnolent state
- New paths for the women's movement
- Lessons from tribals on surviving and thriving
- Where dignity is the first and most pressing need
- India’s “third gender” enters poll fray with new hope
- Rape laws have changed, but what about the judiciary?
- Whose dynasty is it anyway?
- A different destiny in writing
- Recording a woman's life
- Who is a feminist?
- A fuller record of our lives
- The guarded tongue
WATER & ACCESSIBILITY
Hill women no longer panic over water scarcity
Hill women no longer panic over water scarcity
In many part of rural India, women spend most of their time walking long distances to collect water for their household's needs. Nitin Jugran Bahuguna visits the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand where the women no longer have to worry about fetching water from long distances thanks to an intervention that has brought potable water right to their doorstep.
 ACID ATTACK SURVIVORS
Lucknow’s new landmark Sheroes upholds the indomitable spirit of humanityManjari Singh reports on the opening of the Lucknow branch of Sheroes Hangout, a café run and managed by acid attack survivors under the guidance of the humanitarian organisation “Stop Acid Attacks”. |
 BOXING GIRLS
Chennai girls learn to land a solid punchThese days, select impoverished neighbourhoods in Chennai have become the nursery of future champion boxers. Girls in these neighbourhoods are receiving training in boxing, something that has given them the confidence to stand up for themselves and dream big, reveals Hema Vijay. |
 WOMEN AND THE STATE
The women whose voices we seek to stifle, but can’tHigh rhetoric and token gestures abound on International Women’s Day. Yet, a brave woman of the soil was threatened, attacked and prevented from holding a rally that would have voiced the real issues faced by many women. Freny Manecksha met Soni Sori days before she was attacked, and recounts her story. |
 THE AFTERMATH OF RAPE
For rape survivors and families, the nightmare continuesRadha. Zahira. Neha. Names and tales that serve to remind us that despite the reams written, laws passed and discourses held on sexual violence in the country, the road to justice for rape survivors remains as arduous as ever. Manjari Singh reports. |
 DASTKAR RANTHAMBHORE
Rebuilding their lives with craftThe Board of Directors of this company haven't been to college or school. They don’t have fancy cars, and haven't travelled more than 50 kilometers from their homes. What makes them even more unique is that they're all women who when displaced from their homes in the Ranthambhore forest, Rajasthan, overcame many challenges, learned new crafts, rebuilt their lives and made their own destiny, writes Supriya Unni Nair. |
 INTERVIEW
Feminism is about leading a non-degraded lifeDr C S Lakshmi, the eminent Tamil feminist writer, who writes under the pen name Ambai, has been a researcher in women’s studies for the last several decades, and is also the Founder Trustee of Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women (SPARROW), that has undertaken several oral history projects. She speaks to Pratibha Umashankar about a wide range of issues concerning women, including the need to write women back into history. |
 GENDER RIGHTS
Sex workers turn paralegal volunteers An innovative project in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is helping sex workers empower themselves, by training them as paralegal volunteers. A confident community is fighting exploitation, standing up and being counted, reports Ramesh Menon. |
 INVISIBLE VICTIMS
When the man in the family is branded a terroristWhat happens to the mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives of the Muslim men who are rounded up, rightly or wrongly, for being terrorists? While the media talks mostly to the men the voices of these women are lost. Their family, community and the organizations working on releasing their men are not able to offer them much support. This leads to a silent suffering, the results of which could be dangerous finds Puja Awasthi. |
 CRAFT & EMPOWERMENT
Arifa shows how business is doneIn conflict-stricken region of Kashmir where women are sheltered and house-bound, it's next to impossible for a woman to be an entrepreneur. Making it possible are women like Arifa, who overcame various challenges to start her own crafts store in Srinagar. Renu Agal meets Arifa to write her inspiring story. |
 RIGHTS FOR UNWED MOTHERS
Are we celebrating too much too soon?Can a ruling from the Supreme Court change the socio-cultural and psychological ramifications of unwed motherhood in India? Shoma A Chatterji probes deeper to find out the social and sociological impact of the ruling on the family. |
 FOREST PATROL
Saving forests: Women sentinels of Gunduribadi The women of Gunduribadi, a small tribal village in Odisha, go out daily for thengapalli or forest patrolling around their village. They are also members of their Forest Protection Committee which decides how to manage the forest and its resources. Sonali Pattnaik spent a day with these sentinels of Gunduribadi to find out how this movement has restored the forest and empowered the villagers. |
 WOMEN'S MOVEMENT & RIGHTS
Veteran Voices: Detailing Indian Women’s StrugglesDecades of struggle and innumerable sacrifices are involved in the long history of women's movement in India. Deepti Priya Mehrotra speaks to some of the exemplary leaders who recall the history of women’s movement and their role in it. |
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