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Why Loitering is worth the Risk 26 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
By Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade We post an extract from our book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets in the wake of the recent gangrape of a journalist in Mumbai. It is true...
NWMI condemns gangrape of woman journalist in Mumbai & demands safety for women media professionals 23 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) is shocked and angry at the alleged gangrape of a woman journalist and the assault on her male colleague in the evening of August 22 while they were on ...
Loving “her” to Death 16 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
By Janaki Nair A grisly attack on a young woman student and the violent suicide of a “spurned” boyfriend has shocked and alarmed the campus community at JNU in Delhi. Long believed to be the small...
Brown in America 13 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am
My sister was born 4 years before me and a few shades darker. Just enough to cross the color line in the United States. When she tried out for Tom Sawyer, they cast her as Injun Joe. It didn’t matter ...
The Myth of the Supermom 2 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
By Shazia Nigar This year on Mother’s Day I came across a cartoon strip that I thought was appropriate for my mother. Two kids were peering into their mother’s closet in absolute awe. They had just d...
Commercial Surrogacy: choice and health 27 Jul 2013 | 12:57 pm
Being pregnant comes with its advantages. One of these is that a healthy amount of pampering is expected and endured. Pregnant women can put their feet up more than usual, or at least that’s how it sh...
Talking to kids about sexual safety – II 20 Jul 2013 | 10:15 am
In an earlier post, I talked about Childline India’s programme on educating school kids on sexual safety. The programme, which runs in 180 schools across the city, teaches kids about basic concepts re...
The Calvinists 12 Jul 2013 | 08:15 am
[Editor's note: Here is another one of Lavanya Karthik's comic strips, as part of our ongoing Feminism & Humour series. We enjoy interacting with you and knowing what you found amusing, thought-provok...
Rethinking Gender Equity in Transport Planning 11 Jul 2013 | 10:27 pm
I imagine every woman does this. Every time she enters a subway station, a bus or a bus-stop, a cab alone or with children, she looks around almost on autopilot; she is infinitely and finitely aware o...
Abhi Aur Safar Baaki Hai 5 Jul 2013 | 11:05 pm
By Kalpana Khare (This is the fourth of a series of posts written from the experiences at CREA of implementing a program called “Count Me IN! It’s My Body: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health an...
