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October 18, 2016
For the BJP, the Uniform Civil Code is Simply a Stick to Bash Muslims With
In 1951, India's first Law Minister Dr. B.R. Ambedkar fought to get our parliament to pass the Hindu Code Bill, a bill he had drafted with great love and care which would have granted equal rights to Hindu women denied to them by tradition and religious practice. Had this bill been passed in time the logical...
October 18, 2016
The ironical problem is that amidst all this debate, it is the BJP which is coming out as a supporter and champion of gender justice.
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The latest controversy over the Law Commission questionnaire eliciting responses over the viability of a uniform civil code has raised many questions. But at the outset, it should be made clear that there is nothing wrong in the...
October 17, 2016
पिछले दिनों दिल्ली में कांस्टीट्यूशन क्लब में हुए विधवा रैंप और फैशन शो के साथ ही एक और बेड़ी टूटती दिखी। आयोजक सुलभ इंटरनेशनल का मकसद चाहे जो भी हो, लेकिन इस कार्यक्रम के बहाने उस रूढ़ि के टूटने की शुरुआत तो हुई कि विधवाओं को रंगीन कपड़े और साज-श्रंगार से दूर रहना चाहिए।
हिंदू धर्म में खासकर उच्च जातियों की पुरानी परंपरा यही रही है कि महिला चाहे वह कितनी भी उम्र की क्यों न हो, पति की मौत...
October 17, 2016
महासमुंद: छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस महासमुंद जिले के पिरदा गाँव में चलती कार में हुए गैंगरेप के मामले में स्थानीय बीजेपी नेता के बेटे प्रिंस सलूजा की तलाश कर रही है।। आरोप है कि उसने 11 अक्टूबर को दो दोस्तों के साथ मिलकर मंगलवार को 36 साल की महिला के साथ सामूहिक बलात्कार किया, और वीडियो भी बनाया। फरार आरोपी प्रिंस सलूजा बसना के पूर्व मंडल महामंत्री और भाजपा नेता जसबीर सिंह सलूजा का बेटा है...
'I'm sorry we've come to this': Perfumer's murder reiterates the dangers faced by women living alone
October 15, 2016
'I'm sorry we've come to this': Perfumer's murder reiterates the dangers faced by women living alone
The funeral of 39-year-old perfumer and photographer Monika Ghurde at the Santa Inez cremation ground in the Goan capital of Panjim on Sunday was a somber affair. Attended by her mother, brother, and former husband along with about 40 of her closest friends, Ghurde...
October 15, 2016
In India, for every divorced Muslim man, there are four divorced Muslim women, anIndiaSpend analysis of Census 2011 data shows.
Across religious communities, except Sikhs, there are more divorced women than men. But the gender skew is particularly sharp among Muslims (79:21), followed by ‘other religions’ (72:28), and Buddhists (70:30).
Among...
October 12, 2016
Sangh parivar’s cultural vigilantes force exit of Dalit poet and activist Pradnya Daya Pawar, along with eminent Dalit scholar Dr Raosaheb Kasbe from a lit-fest in Satara
Dalit poet and activist Pradnya Daya Pawar. Photo credit: Praful Gangurde
In what is being dubbed as an appalling attack on the freedom of expression of the litterateurs, renowned Dalit poet and activist Pradnya Daya...
October 12, 2016
The death of a 13-year-old Jain girl who fasted for 68 days raises questions about how community traditions can impinge on the well-being of minors.'
A mother takes her seven-year-old daughter for circumcision, allowing a part of the child’s clitoris to be cut with a blade in the name of religion. A family allows their 13-year-old daughter to go on a 68-day fast – a...
October 12, 2016
The oppressor is in solidarity with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labor -- when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love. True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act...
October 12, 2016
The responses of feminist activists to the Suspend Judgement! campaign reveal the hidden hierarchies of power and exclusion we must confront. Part 2. Part 1.
Suspend Judgment! leaflets on display at the AWID Forum. Designed by Sherna Dastur/ CREA.
In the days before the internet, smartphones, texting, Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and what have you, the distribution of parchas (Hindi for...