Criminal Amnesia

The focus may have now shifted to the Kolkata gang rape case, but questions about the sexual violence in Manipur since May 2023 remain unanswered

To Rape A Wife

Survivors of marital rape face twin hurdles: a lack of legal framework to deal with these cases and the social stigma that comes with reporting them

A City Violated

Public outburst of anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata has left the Mamata Banerjee government puzzled, worried

The Forest of Loss

From a legal perspective, justice appears to have been served in the 2017 Gudiya rape and murder case at Kotkhai, Himachal Pradesh. But several questions persist

Here, Nobody Speaks of the Wounds

Muhammad Iqbal Shah's 14-year-old cousin was gang-raped and murdered at Handwara town, Kupwara, in 2007. The family is still trudging along the long road to justice

She Must Have Been Afraid

The 2012 Delhi gang rape is reflective of a systematic failure to cleanse the societal malaise

The Burning Woman

UP has the highest rate of crimes against women, and the district of Unnao has seen some of the State's most gruesome cases

Naked (vs.) Justice

On March 14, 2006, Latabai and her son, six, were paraded naked in a village in Solapur. Less than six months later, four members of a Dalit family were paraded naked; mother & daughter were allegedly gang-raped

Songlines of Chambal

How do the residents of Sheikhpur Gudha, Phoolan Devi's village in Uttar Pradesh, remember her: as a survivor, a rebel, a leader?

Don't You Remember My Story?

A child gang rape survivor's 12-year long ordeal in Sikar, Rajasthan shows how calls for punishment of perpetrators don't always mean empathy for the victim

Still Jungle Raj

The demand for justice for victims and survivors of violence in Bihar continues

Kunan Poshpora: Frozen in Time

In 1991, 40 Kashmiri women alleged that Army officers raped them. The case remains pending

The Lost Innocence

In May, a minor girl was raped in a village in Latehar district of Jharkhand. Incidentally, the state is currently placed third in the country for rapes of minor girls

The Dog Chain & Hospital Bed

On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally attacked by a male sweeper, Sohanlal Valmiki. He raped and sodomised her, while strangling her with a dog chain

Speak Up, Shut Down

How the system defeats a gang rape survivor

They Didn't Cut the Tree

Despite global outrage at the gang rape and murder of two minors in Budaun, UP in May 2014, nine years later the case has not reached trial stage. The family continue to live in fear in the same village, awaiting justice

Unspeakable Memories

At least five tribal girls in Sidhi district in MP were raped by a 30-year-old man, who used a voice-changing app to pose as a woman college professor offering them scholarships

Rage Against the Machinery

The brutal rape-murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital has an inescapable geography

The Endless Night

WEST Bengal witnessed mass protests on an unprecedented scale on the eve of India's 78th Independence Day-the midnight of August 14when tens of thousands of people, overwhelmingly women, took over the main squares across the state's cities and towns.

Cause and Effect

India needs to show atmanirbharta as the era of New Cold War’ is rampaging across South Asia

Newsroom in Exile

It was a dangerous time to be a journalist in Bangladesh. Between 2001 and 2006, 13 journalists were killed and hundreds faced threats, intimidation, harassment and torture from law enforcement agencies.

Notes from a Revolution

Salimullah Khan is a Dhaka-based political analyst and public intellectual who teaches at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Snigdhendu Bhattacharya speaks to him about the implications of the Bangladesh uprising

We, the Women

The number of casualties in Bangladesh would have been much higher had women not taken to the streets in such large numbers. A first-person account

Jamaat Raises its Pitch

After being underground for more than a decade, Jamaat-e-lslami is back on the political circuit, raising concerns for India

Liberation 2.0?

India must be actively involved to prevent Bangladesh's return to the East Pakistan days

The Hindu Question

Rana Dasgupta is the General Secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, one of the main minority rights organisations in the country. He spoke to Snigdhendu Bhattacharya about the attacks on minorities, the role of the student leadership, the interim government and future plans

When Statues Fall

The protests in Bangladesh were about more than just toppling a regime. It was about reclaiming dignity and humanity in the face of oppression

Seeking Return of Democracy

The BNP will give the interim government reasonable time in the hope that it is aware of public desire for free and fair elections

Rapids Ahead in the Teesta

India’s challenge is to break with the past and begin afresh with the new power centre in Dhaka

Roaring With Storms

Bangladesh witnessed dramatic changes in a month, but bigger changes are in the offing