The Woman Who Fought Back
It’s easy to tell people to stand up for themselves; it’s not so easy to do it. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Because it’s brave people who start a revolution for change. It takes courage to stand up for yourself and what you believe in, particularly if everyone else is inclined to disagree [...]
[Guest Post] Being a Child in a World of Violence
What is Delhi famous for? Its monuments? Its history? Its food? Of late, it seems that Delhi is known across the country for being the rape capital. Rarely a day passes, when a case of rape and or molestation in the capital is not reported. Some cases, like the recent Gurgaon gang rape, gain more publicity than others, [...]
What Sexual Harassment Means To The Average Delhi Girl
Honestly, I’m one of the lucky few in Delhi who’s never been eve-teased or targeted in any way. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t experienced these things in my surroundings. And it would be useless to deny that they’re a huge part of my life. Because they are, just as they are for any [...]
On the Right to Wear Shorts
It’s not about what this season’s style gurus tell us to wear, it’s not about defying an existing social order. It’s about freedom. The freedom to wear what we want without fear of the consequences. It’s about social justice. We live in a society where men are perfectly comfortable urinating on the side of a [...]
[The Atlantic] Study: DV Might Stunt Infants’ Intellectual Growth
In this study published in the Atlantic, researchers aimed to uncover exactly what the effects of early childhood trauma in the form of exposure to domestic violence might be on a child’s cognitive functioning. Through an examination of mother-child interactions, incidences of child neglect and child abuse, they found that children who had experienced domestic [...]
[The Telegraph] Counselling easy way out for DV in Jharkhand
In case you missed it, here is The Telegraph’s article from earlier this month on how Jharkhand is dealing with complaints of domestic violence under the PWDVA based on reports from Ranchi and Jamshedpur. Some excerpts: In the capital, 400 women knocked on the doors of the women’s police station in 2011 to register cases [...]
[Chowk] The Girl Who Lived
This short story by M Singh was published on Chowk two years ago, Prerna is a girl with three sisters and a young brother. As her parents are preparing her for marriage, she finds out there were meant to be three more sisters between herself and her brother – a fact she reveals to her [...]
Do we dare to wear what we want?
The famous No Pants Subway Ride launched in New York City in 2002 with seven participants stripping off on the subway, and completing their respective rides in their boxers. A few years later, it was an annual, international movement and in January this year, the No Pants Subway Ride involved tens of thousands of participants [...]
[Livemint] For Women Who Walk
The following post by Gayatri Jayaraman appeared on Livemint on the 19th of March 2012. Titled ‘For women who walk: The things they will not tell you’, it begins: Two young women writers (Nita Bhalla on BBC and Meena Kandasamy in Outlook) this past week decided to explore their personal stories of domestic abuse. Many [...]
Women News Network: Reproductive coercion puts Somali refugee women in the line of fire
Gitonga Njeru – WNN Features (WNN) Garissa, KENYA: Following several weeks of military intervention by the Kenyan Defense Forces against Somali extremist militia groups, Somali women have become easy targets for rape and physical assault. But physical assault can also come from home and can also be psychological. As some Somalian women stand up to [...]
