Blame the Rape Victim courtesy Delhi Police

In a recent investigation by NDTV and Tehelka into the rapes in Delhi and how the law enforcement handles and looks at them, there was a stunning revelation: Most senior cops are hostile to the victims and blame them for their own rape. In a two-week long investigation, Abhishek Bhalla and G Vishnu spoke to [...]

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Almost 1000 Pakistani women killed for Family’s Honor

What is it about the people of Indian subcontinent, that we still value “Honor” or our value in others’ eyes so much?  Why can’t we live our lives in a way that upholds ourselves in just our own eyes? Although, both India and Pakistan have this family honor disease, but it is far more prevalent [...]

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Where Mothers are forced to give Opium to their Infants

Rajasthani Women Labourers

Yesterday, the world observed International Women’s Day.  Women are facing many issues over the world, specially in countries like India.  The issues that a working woman faces in the urban places is quite a bit, but the issues that the rural or slum mothers face often puts them in situations where they end up making [...]

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Infographic of the Day: International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day.  While many use this day to wish women, but the real intent of instituting this day was to push for Gender Equality.  Even today, most women do not get the same level of salary as their male co-workers get, even in the US! In many other countries – the less [...]

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Indictment of Crime or Resignation by the Justice?

A Kerala High court judge had an interesting observation on the society around him:

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How few Keralite women are changing the future Indian social landscape

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India is achanging.

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Padded Bras, Perky Breasts and Islam: Government of Pakistan body protests against padded bras!

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Zakir Naik – the very popular Islamic authority and speaker from India – has a great business idea for Pakistan. He wants the Government of Pakistan to fund research for Shariah-Compliant Bras.

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Rape – Do You Feel Hot About It?

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It is said that the way the women of a particular region, or country, are kept and treated tells a lot about the men of that place.

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How Pakistani Muslim men seduce, rape and convert Sikh, Hindu and White Women in UK

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A couple of years back I came across a letter written by a Sikh girl from UK on an internet forum, on how she was seduced by a Pakistani guy and then made pregnant and married and converted to Islam.

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Fall Of The Feminine

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A few weeks back I had written a post about how the media has not kept pace with the changing role of women in society

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