CATEGORIES

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

No Haircut For Dalits

Despite being illegal, despite the years of independence and progress India has made the practice of untouchability continues to plague the country's Dalit citizens

The Age Of Lynching

Incidents of fatal lynchings of people from minority communities is on the rise, even as the conviction rate for such crimes remains abysmal

Pomp and Happiness

Can we ever break free from the unending display of wealth and might?

The Banality of Story

Dear Studio, invest in people, not in products. Tell me a story I can feel-each time anew

The Ways of Seeing

Every artist should be free to follow the path that an idea presents

A Beautiful Mind

People with mental illnesses are left out of the narrative and deprived of freedoms and benefits that neuro-typical people take for granted; they deserve freedom from stigma

An Uncounted Rape

Already vulnerable, India's transgender citizens are assaulted or ignored by the very institutions meant to serve and protect them