What it means to 'Be A Man'
National Award winning social activist, Harish Sadani, talks about the journey from his locality to MAVA in engaging and involving men and boys in the movement for gender rights and equality.
Men & Emotions
What I am about to say might infuriate the feminists here. But be patient and stay with me awhile. Sympathy is easy. Empathy is hard. Harder it is to empathise with someone who has suffered from things too atrocious for one’s imagination. Harder still is to empathise with the perpetrator. And it is this that [...]
"But he didn't abuse you physically…or sexually?"
#16DOT blogger, Neha Sharma, writes about her experience of emotional abuse in a relationship and the sympathy she received from no one (forget empathy) only because he didn’t lay a single hand on her.
In Search Of Rays of Hope for Victims of Violence
Domestic abuse is often treated as family skirmish, and its victims are often advised not to seek help outside family. That’s the message I got when I started poking around in search of assistance that is offered to victims of abuse. From doctors to police personnel, anyone in a position to help a domestic violence [...]
Women in Red Corridors
Mahima Singh retraces the roots of her understanding of violence and expresses how the opportunities for women are dismal, perceivably non-existent, in the red corridor regions of the country.
For the women, the valley is no paradise!
Rhythma Kaul recounts a few memory flashes from her childhood spent in the Kashmir valley.
Reflection on the Montreal Massacre
December 6, 1989. Marc Lepine arrives at the Universite de Montreal with a semi-automatic rifle and a hunting knife. He kills fourteen women. He is fighting feminism. Lepine entered an engineering classroom and ordered the men and women to separate onto opposite sides of the room. He ordered the men to leave and asked the women if they [...]
My Mother's Son
Mom is nothing like me. She’s strong. A trait I got to see up close, growing up, whenever I veered off the path she had carefully set. Maybe it came from bringing up two boys who might have had the tendency to be free, attesting that they were born wild, or maybe those were the [...]
Let It Be
Message from Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: “Worldwide, women and girls continue to suffer violence inside and outside of their homes, often at the hands of intimate partners or persons of trust… we need to combat attitudes and [...]
End of a Honeymoon
“Old habits die hard!” Rahul Mahajan married Shweta Singh after knowing her for 13 years. Shweta stood as a pillar of support during those days when Rahul Mahajan lost his father and was facing a court case. They got engaged in July 2006 and divorced on August 1st 2008. Domestic violence was cited as one [...]
