Times of India: India deadliest place in world for girl child
By Rukmini Shrinivasan NEW DELHI: It’s official – India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Newly released data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy, making this the worst gender differential in child mortality for any country in the world.Infant (0-1 [...]
India’s Youth Walks On The Risky Side
A new study reveals around 7% of young women and 27% of young men in India, who are having or have had premarital sex, use condoms. Only a mere 3% of women and 13% of men said to have always used protection in premarital relationships. The other results are equally alarming. Not more than 40% [...]
To be a woman, not a victim!
I have realized for a woman like me, life began at 50. It took until then for me to understand what empowerment means in the Indian context. I was brought up to believe that women should be quiet, well-behaved, decent (my mother’s favorite word) and never rebel against social norms. I really never knew what [...]
Is Ignorance Really Bliss? A Female Perspective on Sexual Education in India
My decision to conduct a research study on HIV and female sex workers (FSWs) for my dissertation in Delhi two years ago provided me with some unforgettable experiences. These experiences taught me so much about ignorance, not just others but also my own. Having completed my MA degree in social work, I got the [...]
Invisible Among the Uncounted
By Nilanjana S. Roy NEW DELHI — Officially, Chandni doesn’t exist, nor is there any space for her in Delhi. Unofficially, the 14-year-old has grown up in the national capital, on its streets, one of the thousands of uncounted homeless women and girls in a city that has little time or empathy for her. “This [...]
Sexual harassment at a cafe
A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe that I frequently go to in Delhi doing some research for a paper I was working on. I had been sitting there for about two hours already (which would eventually lead to five hours), and had been there the week before too, so the waiters [...]
Why Does India Hate Women?
By Tripti Lahiri So, which countries in the world boast — though I suspect that’s not quite the right word — the highest rates of pregnancy among teenage girls? If you were to pick one of the nations of the supposedly sexually precocious West, you’d be quite wrong. The latest United Nations human development report shows that [...]
Global News Roundup 10.31.11
Here’s a weekly digest of important news stories from around the world: Domestic violence is ‘a hidden problem’ in UAE 10.27.11, The National My Female Colleagues Told Me Not To Talk About The Abuse. I Did It Anyway. 10.25.11, Huffington Post Domestic Violence Awareness Month 10.25.11, Huffington Post Women dare to dream, drive wheels of change 10.27.11, Times [...]
Damsel in Dress or Distress
After studying English literature for 3 years in Delhi University, and staying with people like Saumya Aneja, I had become a loyal preacher of Feminism and Women Liberation. The books I read, the lectures I attended, the teachers I heard and all the brainstorming sessions had all made me look beyond the beliefs which saw [...]
The Wife Beater and the Bystander
- As related by a friend Fighting to stay positive on a day that ends in a sweaty crowd at Andheri station at 9 pm, I was trying to divert my mind from the stickiness of the situation. Changing hair partitions seemed an apt topic. It would take the right amount of visualization that would [...]
