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Kamla Bhasin always called herself one of India’s ‘Midnight Generation’, a reference to those born at the time of India’s Independence. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s invocation of freedom at midnight later found its way into Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel Midnight’s Children.
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“The anxiety over women entering into marriages of choice has deep-seated patriarchal and casteist roots, wherein a woman is perceived as property, and handed over from her parents to her husband’s family, safely within the community and caste, with little say in the matter.”
New Delhi: A group (...)
The unpaid, intensive forms of work women have been undertaking actually ensure the survival of families and communities.
Women workers in India have been disproportionately hurt by the Covid-19-related lockdown and the ensuing economic downturn. While 36% of male workers lost employment (...)
Citing data from NFHS 4, the report says nearly 80% of men aged between 20 and 24 did not use a contraceptive with their last sexual partner.
New Delhi: Half of India’s population is less than 24 years of age while 65 per cent is below 35 years. To harness the opportunity of this young nation, (...)
Rape survivors deserve a fair trail. But Indian courts are still biased against them.
Judge Kshama M. Joshi, additional sessions judge, Mapusa, Goa acquitted Tarun Tejal, former editor-in-chief of Tehelka Magazine of rape of a junior woman employee on the ground that the prosecution was not (...)
Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies
Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and also part of the All India (...)
Women end up in prison due to the traps of this patriarchal system that forces them to commit those crimes. They remain in prison because society and their families also considers them disposable
Q- Seema, tell us about your recently released book – Aurat ka Safar Jail se Jail Tak. Why the (...)
India’s #MeToo movement recently got a boost after a journalist won a criminal defamation case against an editor-turned-politician who she accused of sexual harassment.
In October 2018, the global #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassment perpetrated by powerful men in society reached (...)
The government’s current spending on specific interventions that address violence against women is not even 25% of the actual requirement.
Since its inception in 2013, the Nirbhaya Fund, set up to finance projects to improve the safety and security of women, has seen significant (...)
Throughout history, women have struggled for their rights, along with their struggles for people, land, nature, and the environment. Indian women do not come out suddenly. History has shown that once on the field, they will not retreat easily.
Recently, there has been an increase in the need (...)
An attempt to synthesise the results of discussions held between the 3rd and 8th July, 1978
Preface
This report was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, No. 2, June–September 1978, and is an attempt to present the discussions of two socialist feminist workshops held in Bombay (...)
“We are struggling to make ends meet. In this condition, we cannot prioritize her studies and buy a new phone,” said the mother of a thirteen-year-old.
Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh: “It has been six months since I read any book. My school closed in March and I have not been able to study after that,” (...)
Today, over 10,000 people from all walks of life, cutting across caste, religion, gender, occupation and community came together from almost every state in India and more than a dozen countries across the world such US, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE, Hong Kong, Japan, Nepal, Netherlands, Sweden, (...)
CASTE AND PATRIARCHY ASSERT THEIR UGLY POWER AGAIN.
AND THE STATE STANDS WITH THEM AGAINST THE BETIS OF INDIA!
Women’s groups condemn the horrific rape and murder of a young Dalit woman from Hathras, UP.
Stand with the family in their sorrow. Extend support, solidarity and rage.
Shame on the (...)
Another alarming statistic was that 40.3% of the survivors kept these incidents to themselves and a tiny fraction decided to approach the local internal complaints committee to lodge a complaint.
The lack of safety for women in India’s streets flows into its campuses, which fail to be the (...)
The labouring body is a combination of productive and reproductive functions, which act together to keep the market forces running. One cannot separate the surplus labour extracted by the market system, from the labour of parenting, running a home and further providing emotional care. These (...)
Increasing access to education, nutrition and job opportunities will go much further in terms of actually empowering India’s women, activists believe.
New Delhi: Child rights activists believe that by increasing the marriageable age for women from 18 to 21, the government is missing the (...)
Political Resolution Proposed by the Democratic Alliance for the Immediate Attention of the Public and the Government against the Atrocities against Rehna Fathima.
We, who work in artistic, cultural and socio-political arenas strongly protest against the atrocities perpetrated by the (...)
Though India was quick to declare the pandemic-induced lockdown, how accommodative was it of the violent and gendered realities of the country?
The first social distancing advisory, which was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 16 March 2020, advised students to stay at (...)
Sarada Muraleedharan speaks about the critical role of local self-governments in Kerala as part of the state’s robust response to COVID-19. She speaks about how Kerala’s history of decentralisation and participatory planning helped the Government implement effective contact tracing, quarantines (...)
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