'Low birthweight and prematurity' is now the most common cause of child death in India. Apart from improving publicly provided newborn care, we need to communicate to families how…
Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything…
The nation celebrates with gusto the joys and exhilarations of sporting moments. But it falls silent when the powerful are interrogated for violating the rights of sportspersons under their care,…
In coal mining districts, the nature of labour dependence on working coal may change over time, but generations will continue to rely on the industry for their livelihoods. This leaves coal…
The endogamous family has survived because it chooses not to support single women, queer and trans persons, sex workers, or anyone wanting to marry outside of caste and religious norms. Only when…
Virginity tests in judicial trials are premised on gendered and casteist ideas about women. The Supreme Court’s ban on such tests should be followed up with changes in medical education and social…
Isolated from the public world, a large section of Indian women remain closely entangled in the private world of family and kinship. An engagement with external networks would encourage their…
We cannot negate determined acts of Indian Muslim women to wear the hijab as mere social indoctrination. At a time when being a Muslim is a significant threat on its own, wearing the hijab and owning…
