Society
Drug addiction a disease, not an identity
June 26, 2021
The road to recovery for drug addicts is already a perilous one, aggravated by physical pains of withdrawal and mental agony. In India however, it is made worse due to familial and social stigma that leaves addicts fighting for their life while being completely is...
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International Widows Day: Disdained, disgraced and...
June 23, 2021
“I don’t have anyone, I am uneducated and ignorant, everyone told me go live in Vrindavan after the death of my husband. That is how I ended up here,” A widow recounted her tale to Winnie Singh, executive director of Maitri, a non-profit organisation working for widows. The...
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Lockdowns lock women in abusive households
June 22, 2021
“A lady came to us with a complaint of domestic violence, but everytime we talked to her she changed her story, she was really scared, and our first response was to get her out of her house to a safe place. We took her to a psychologist and after two-three sessions with the psy...
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SC order puts 10,000 families in Faridabad at risk
June 21, 2021
Colin Gonsalves, head of HRLN, a law firm that fights for right to housing for the poor, expressed disappointment over the latest order of Supreme Court which refused to grant any relief to the over 10,000 families that have lived for decades in Khori village near Surajkund in Fa...
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Sex Education 101 with Dr Niveditha Manokaran
June 16, 2021
In the country where one of the most famous and oldest erotic textbooks of the world, Kama sutra was written, “sex” and everything around it still remains tabooed. While media coverage in India on any given day remains full of news of several gruesome rapes and hein...
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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: India’s elderly...
June 15, 2021
The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), a national survey conducted by an autonomous organisation of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), found that 1 in 20 people aged 60 or above had experienced ill-treatment in the last year, most often from their own care...
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World Day Against Child Labour: Pandemic paralyses...
June 12, 2021
Thirteen-year-old Muskaan is a very shy and soft-spoken girl. So soft-spoken that one would be tempted incessantly to ask her to repeat herself. But Muskaan, who lives with her parents and 5 other siblings in a slum near Malviya Nagar in New Delhi, is emphatic that chil...
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Indian doctors fear assaults from patients’ fami...
June 10, 2021
In the first few days of June 2021, there have been several reports of healthcare workers including doctors being attacked in hospitals, such as the assault of a doctor and a nurse in a Covid-19 ward in the Hojai district of Assam and an on-duty doctor in West Bengal’s Hooghly ...
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Digital India’s dichotomy: Denying digital disse...
June 9, 2021
In the pre-colonial era, British introduced section 124 (A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) covering sedition to curb the freedom movement and to suppress dissent. The first person to be tried under this law was Jogendra Chandra Bose, editor of a newspaper called Bangobasi, in 1...
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International Sex Workers Day: Invisible, unheard ...
June 2, 2021
“Akka, humari life toh kharaab ho gayi but humare bachchon ki life kharaab nahi honi chahiye, iss dhandhe mei mera bachcha nahi aana chahiye. Kuchh karo! (My life is ruined, but my child should not suffer the same fate, she should not be forced to into this cruel world. Please ...
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