What’s wrong with Indian men?
12 years, 3 months ago

What’s wrong with Indian men?

The Hindu  

Another horror; another rape. Of course, the very fact of a compulsory school uniform imposed a level of conformism but even within that girls found ways to assert individual personalities — a tuck here, a stitch there. Yet, reading about the Delhi incident, I thought about these young women who are on the verge of stepping out into another world, away from the relatively safe environment of an all-girls school. Today, girls have Facebook friends and are daring enough to meet them even if all they know about them is what these young men choose to put on their “profile”. At the same time, many believe the problem will be tackled if the government, law enforcement and society at large figure out how to “protect” these girls from violence.

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Women in India should each be allowed to commit one murder due to rape epidemic, politician suggests
1 week, 4 days ago

Women in India should each be allowed to commit one murder due to rape epidemic, politician suggests

Daily Mail  

An Indian politician has sparked fierce controversy after suggesting that women in the country should be granted immunity for murder amid the rape epidemic. Rohini Khadse, head of the women's wing of the Nationalist Congress Party made the shocking proposal in a letter to Indian President Droupadi Murmu on International Women's Day. Rohini Khadse, head of the women's wing of …

From the India Today Archives (1980): Indian women: A time for reckoning
4 months, 1 week ago

From the India Today Archives (1980): Indian women: A time for reckoning

India Today  

They are unsafe on the streets and discriminated against at work. A mere 2.5 per cent of the Central Government’s 1.87 million employees are women. To Lajjo, 30 years old and mother of seven children, "The women’s condition is a question of two rotis." The ICSSR study on the status of Indian women says that "detailed analysis of employment of …

Nothing has changed for women in India
6 months ago

Nothing has changed for women in India

The Hindu  

I was in middle school when the bone-chilling Delhi rape and murder happened. The recent Kolkata rape case has, once again, brought the nation together, for yet another of “India’s daughters”. It is nothing but the fact that they are some of the many women who became “India’s daughters” in the past few days. Over the past few weeks, every …

How best to stop sexual violence in India isn’t obvious
6 months, 1 week ago

How best to stop sexual violence in India isn’t obvious

Live Mint  

There is anger in the air. The pervasive fear of sexual violence restricts women’s mobility as well as their access to education, employment and other economic opportunities. Hence, we actually pay the cost of every rape or for that matter every crime that raises the ‘operating cost’ of a society. It began when 8 men gang-raped and killed an 8-year-old …

‘We will fight for you, Kolkata sister’
6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We will fight for you, Kolkata sister’

Hindustan Times  

When a young woman was gang-raped and left to die on the streets of New Delhi in 2012, a shocked and enraged India vowed that her death would not be in vain, that she would be avenged by not letting this happen to “anyone else”. Protests condemning the RG Kar case continue with doctors taking to the streets to demand …

‘We will fight for you, Kolkata sister’
6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We will fight for you, Kolkata sister’

Hindustan Times  

When a young woman was gang-raped and left to die on the streets of New Delhi in 2012, a shocked and enraged India vowed that her death would not be in vain, that she would be avenged by not letting this happen to “anyone else”. Protests condemning the RG Kar case continue with doctors taking to the streets to demand …

Threat at every step: What it takes to stay alive as women
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Threat at every step: What it takes to stay alive as women

New Indian Express  

Grim figures Violence and abuse against women and girls is frequent on streets, in public transportation and in other public places. In 2022, the Delhi Police registered a total of 1212 cases of sexual assault which says that on an average three women were raped daily in the city. According to the data shared by the National Crime Records Bureau, …

Beyond Lenient Laws: What Will It Take to Protect India’s Women?
7 months ago

Beyond Lenient Laws: What Will It Take to Protect India’s Women?

News 18  

After this fortnight, it is not hard to see why some are demanding speedy punishment, including automatic death sentences for severe crimes against women. A migrant labourer was charged with the crime and sentenced to death, a verdict upheld by the Kerala High Court in May 2024. “Every sinner has a future" There was the startling “every sinner has a …

What to know as thousands protest sexual violence in India
7 months, 1 week ago

What to know as thousands protest sexual violence in India

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy India's medical workers began a …

Indian women deserve the democracy they were promised
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Indian women deserve the democracy they were promised

The Hindu  

As India wrapped up the second phase of its gargantuan Lok Sabha elections, flash drives with many videos of graphic sexual violence began to appear across Karnataka. No conversations The lack of women in leadership positions across the Indian political landscape translates to a real absence of feminist policies that deliver justice for women and create meaningful strides towards gender …

Indian men’s rights group burns underwear to protest ‘laws that favour women’
11 months ago

Indian men’s rights group burns underwear to protest ‘laws that favour women’

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The lack of gender neutral laws implies that “only women can be victims and men only …

A note on the issue: The anxiety of the Indian male
1 year ago

A note on the issue: The anxiety of the Indian male

Live Mint  

A couple of weeks ago, I read Neha J. Hiranandani’s iParent: Embracing Parenting In The Digital Age in which she makes the very pertinent, and somewhat frightening, observation that for a whole generation, the first experience of love, romance, sex and heartbreak is entirely online. We recently did stories about dating app burnout fuelled by the anxiety to find a …

Mapping the Indian Manosphere
1 year ago

Mapping the Indian Manosphere

Live Mint  

One of the most popular videos uploaded by Dev Tyagi, a 23-year-old social media content creator and music producer with 85,000 followers on Instagram, is about how he doesn’t allow his girlfriends to have male friends. It’s a global phenomenon—a January 2024 Financial Times article spoke about a new “global gender divide”, citing combined data sets from various studies conducted …

Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women
1 year ago

Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Seven men raped me, and they have beaten us and robbed us.” …

Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women
1 year ago

Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — The woman in the Instagram video appeared shaken. The case triggered a nationwide outcry over one of India’s rampant problems: a decades-long struggle to curb rising sexual violence against women. Reports of horrific sexual assaults on women have become familiar in India, where police recorded 31,516 rape cases in 2022, a 20% increase from 2021, according to …

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India
1 year ago

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India

Hindustan Times  

While the Indian constitution guarantees the protection of life and liberty and prohibits discrimination based on gender, policymaking in this field is stymied by several problems. India’s social structure, with long-standing gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms and gender roles, plays a significant role in perpetuating GBV. While the common forms of GBV against women in India are acts of …

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India
1 year ago

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India

Hindustan Times  

India’s social structure, with enduring gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms, plays a significant role in perpetuating gender-based violence. In the context of this brief, GBV refers to acts of abuse of a sexual, physical, psychological, or financial nature committed against women in India. India’s social structure, with long-standing gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms and gender roles, plays a …

Sexual abuse of boys continues because of patriarchy, says expert
1 year, 2 months ago

Sexual abuse of boys continues because of patriarchy, says expert

The Hindu  

Sexual abuse of boys continues to happen because of patriarchy, said Alankaar Sharma in Chennai on Wednesday at the annual lecture of Tulir Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse. Mr. Alankaar senior lecturer, school of health and society, University of Wollongong, Australia, was speaking on ‘Boys, child sexual abuse and masculinities: Connecting the dots’. Stating that …

Crimes against women must stop for the country to prosper
1 year, 3 months ago

Crimes against women must stop for the country to prosper

Live Mint  

Crimes against women in India rose by 4% in 2022 from the previous year, a majority of the cases being cruelty by the husband or his relatives. Delhi is still rated as the country’s most unsafe city for women, with an average of three reported rape cases per day, accounting for 29% of crimes committed against women in 19 major …

Explained | Study shows link between domestic violence cases and climate crisis in India
1 year, 8 months ago

Explained | Study shows link between domestic violence cases and climate crisis in India

The Hindu  

The story so far: The environmental perils of climate change are worsening social hazards, such as domestic violence. The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time pointed out that “women, girls and LGBTQI people are at increased risk of domestic violence, harassment, sexual violence and trafficking” during and after extreme weather events. Since …

Feroze Varun Gandhi’s The Indian Metropolis — Deconstructing India’s Urban Spaces: The female force
2 years ago

Feroze Varun Gandhi’s The Indian Metropolis — Deconstructing India’s Urban Spaces: The female force

The Hindu  

In his new book, The Indian Metropolis: Deconstructing India’s Urban Spaces, Varun Gandhi rues the apathy displayed towards urban infrastructure in India. He traces India’s journey towards urbanisation going beyond the metros, discusses multiple issues threadbare, from water, healthcare, transportation, housing, employment opportunities to crime, particularly crimes against women, and offers solutions to problems. It is estimated that women comprise …

Making India safer for women
2 years, 2 months ago

Making India safer for women

Hindustan Times  

A woman stabbed 51 times by her stalker with a screwdriver in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district. National Crime Records Bureau data shows that in 2021, a crime against a woman was recorded nearly every minute, with abduction, rape and domestic violence forming the bulk of the cases. It has left the police baffled and society shocked, underlining a fundamental disconnect between …

Four women 'rape' a man in Jalandhar: Gender-neutral laws are crying need of hour
2 years, 3 months ago

Four women 'rape' a man in Jalandhar: Gender-neutral laws are crying need of hour

Firstpost  

While India’s rape laws have undergone changes over the past few decades – they still continue to regressively espouse patriarchal structures. The need is for gender-neutral rape laws that stand for equality and dignity of men, transgender and homosexual persons to be protected, alongside women Minutes after I got off a show on a leading English news channel about intimate …

Violence Against Women: Can Indian Parents Finally Have Their Daughters' Backs?
2 years, 3 months ago

Violence Against Women: Can Indian Parents Finally Have Their Daughters' Backs?

The Quint  

Mind you, neither Walkar nor her parents are to be blamed in any way for this tragic mishap but we need to address the set of problematic discourses that we see developing around this incident. If anything, this case should motivate Indian parents to talk about toxic relationships with their kids. They never encourage them to ask questions as the …

Shraddha Walkar case puts spotlight on violent relationships: Understanding why women don’t leave their abusive partners
2 years, 4 months ago

Shraddha Walkar case puts spotlight on violent relationships: Understanding why women don’t leave their abusive partners

Firstpost  

Shraddha Walkar was reportedly assaulted by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala. The question everyone is asking today is, ‘Why did she not leave?’ Experts and women’s rights activists say that it’s easier said than done Shraddha Walkar died in the most brutal of ways — she was strangled and her body was then chopped into over 30 pieces — allegedly …

Toxic masculinity could be making Indian men feel lonely
2 years, 4 months ago

Toxic masculinity could be making Indian men feel lonely

Live Mint  

For decades, the ‘angry young man’ trope has been glorified to describe the sort of hulking masculinity that ‘real men’ had to aspire to. In Anubhuti Kashyap’s recent film Doctor G, the character of Dr Uday Gupta played by Ayushmann Khurrana says, “humare mohalle me ladke cricket khelte hain aur ladkiyan badminton”. She adds that men are “not taught to …

Redefining masculinity: The dark side of Darlings
2 years, 6 months ago

Redefining masculinity: The dark side of Darlings

Hindustan Times  

In its opening weekend, it had the highest global opening for a non-English Indian film, with audiences spending more than 10 million hours watching it, according to a statement released by Netflix to the BBC. The film has been appreciated, as viewership suggests, but some working in violence against women and domestic violence have been critical of it, suggesting that …

Women, girls safer in India since 2015, say NFHS figures: Government in Parliament
2 years, 8 months ago

Women, girls safer in India since 2015, say NFHS figures: Government in Parliament

Firstpost  

Domestic violence, including violence during pregnancy down from NFHS-4 survey period. No increase in sexual violence against girls under 18 years was reported under Modi regime New Delhi: The government on Wednesday informed the Parliament that there has been a favourable decline in crimes against women in India since 2015. The WCD Minister said that as per the latest National …

Women must be safe in intimate spaces
2 years, 10 months ago

Women must be safe in intimate spaces

The Hindu  

Marriage represents one of our most private, intimate spaces. Through an analysis of the recent split verdict of the Delhi High Court on the issue of criminalising marital rape, this article identifies the thorny issues we are confronted with while seeking to find a solution in criminal law: first, the lack of nuance in rape laws that adequately accounts for …

Charts that capture the persisting problem of patriarchy in India
3 years ago

Charts that capture the persisting problem of patriarchy in India

Hindustan Times  

Women have been discriminated against historically in India and the rest of the world. Indians don’t think women are inferior, but prefer men in employment 80% of Indians in the Pew survey agreed that it is very important for women to have the same rights as men. Views about discrimination at odds with responsibilities and mobility of women Only about …

Untitled Story
3 years, 4 months ago

Untitled Story

Live Mint  

October is the month in which trees in northern countries turn gloriously vivid shades of red, pink and orange. As feminist peace activists have pointed out, recent events in Afghanistan show how little progress we have made in including women, taking women’s rights seriously, or even protecting women human rights defenders. The Secretary-General’s report points to the falling funding for …

Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan: ‘I love the ferocity of the MeToo movement in India’
3 years, 7 months ago

Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan: ‘I love the ferocity of the MeToo movement in India’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s so hard to imagine yourself as the centre of the story,” the star of …

Is rethinking masculinity the key to gender equality in India?
4 years ago

Is rethinking masculinity the key to gender equality in India?

Al Jazeera  

On Monday, March 8 at 19:30GMT: A new Indian series, What’s a Man? Host Deepa Narayan says behavioural change among men is key to achieving a gender-equal world, but believes they are rarely engaged in strategic and compassionate conversations that help reshape the world around them. Narayan says that by focusing on gender traits in the binary, men are forced …

Women From Disadvantaged Social Groups at Greater Risk Of Gender-based Violence: UN In India
4 years, 5 months ago

Women From Disadvantaged Social Groups at Greater Risk Of Gender-based Violence: UN In India

News 18  

New Delhi: Calling for attention to cases of sexual violence against women and girls in India, the UN in India said the alleged rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras and Balarampur are a reminder that those from disadvantaged social groups are at greater risk of gender-based violence. In a statement, the UN in India said it is essential that …

Women’s protection in India requires a mindset revolution
4 years, 5 months ago

Women’s protection in India requires a mindset revolution

Live Mint  

Two steps forward, one step backwards has been the sordid tale of women's protection in India. In turn, the government must empower them sufficiently so that they no longer remain mute spectators and are in a position to intervene to ensure facilities for lodging the first information report, or FIR, and medical help in all instances of violence against women. …

Sexual Violence Against Children And Gender Disparity In The Law
4 years, 9 months ago

Sexual Violence Against Children And Gender Disparity In The Law

Live Law  

The protection of children from sexual violence is a fundamental responsibility of every state. Section 377 of the IPC - This was the only provision of law prohibiting sexual violence against male children, prior to the enactment of the POCSO Act. The prison terms awardable in addition to fines for such offences can be seen in the following table- Offence …

We Have Not Reached The Point Where Men Need Protection From Women: Justice Hima Kohli
4 years, 9 months ago

We Have Not Reached The Point Where Men Need Protection From Women: Justice Hima Kohli

Live Law  

The Association of ILI Alumni and the Indian Law Institute conducted a webinar on Domestic Violence During Lockdown: An Invisible Pandemic. She further observed that women in India were reluctant to seek for help from various quarters in cases of domestic violence due to notions of insulting the honour of the family.Justice Kohli, being the Executive Chairperson of the Delhi …

The many forms of violence
4 years, 9 months ago

The many forms of violence

Deccan Chronicle  

Since the nationwide lockdown was announced after the Covid-19 pandemic hit, reports appeared in the media about the increased incidence of domestic violence during lockdown. The violence can take many forms including physical aggression or assault, or threats there of sexual abuse; controlling or domineering, intimidation, stalking, passive/covert abuse, and economic deprivation. As a result of abuse, victims may experience …

Four More Shots Please: ’Feminism is not a one-size-fits-all deal’
4 years, 11 months ago

Four More Shots Please: ’Feminism is not a one-size-fits-all deal’

Live Mint  

There are guilty pleasures and there is the discomfort of staring at your own missteps. When Reese Witherspoon’s Elena says “vagina” in Little Fires Everywhere and explores her lady parts, we accept it as part of the character’s personality. “Sex is usually a means to an end, but in our show it is part of the narrative, which makes people …

Women, Nonviolence, and Civil Resistance
5 years, 2 months ago

Women, Nonviolence, and Civil Resistance

ABP News  

2.5 One of the more remarkable features of the country-wide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens surely has to be the fact that women have taken the lead in signaling their dissent against the heavy-handedness of the Indian state and the increasing encroachment upon constitutional liberties. There have been countless poster campaigns by successive …

Does India truly care for women’s safety?
5 years, 2 months ago

Does India truly care for women’s safety?

Deccan Chronicle  

The countrywide demonstration of university students and people from oppressed communities against the newly imposed Citizenship Act and the fear and uncertainty this law is putting them through has pushed me into deep thinking. I could see the quote from Orwell’s Animal Farm — “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” — coming true, as …

Violence against women and collective guilt in India
5 years, 3 months ago

Violence against women and collective guilt in India

Al Jazeera  

How can women victims of violence get justice when the whole system is the perpetrator? We are inconvenient voices because we talk about our collective culpability in creating an enabling environment for sexual violence – a rape culture that goes as deep within India as our culture for selective outrage. Beyond the justice system, bizarre “solutions” to violence against women …

India needs urgent steps to stop violence against women
5 years, 3 months ago

India needs urgent steps to stop violence against women

Op India  

As we agonize over the happenings in this nation, it has become extremely painful to bear what is going on, the incidents of brutal violence against women have become a regular affair. We hear how young girls and women can be easily set on fire, how they can be pulled from bus stops in broad daylight and gang-raped, how they …

Indian police question suspects in Telangana rape and murder case
5 years, 3 months ago

Indian police question suspects in Telangana rape and murder case

Al Jazeera  

Veterinarian, 27, was reportedly attacked and her body burned after the motorbike she rode broke down. Police said they detained four suspects for questioning on Friday after finding the burned body of a 27-year-old veterinarian who was raped and killed in southern India, in yet another instance of violent crime against women in India. The woman went missing on Wednesday …

Opinion I Yes Mr Bhagwat, men are capable
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion I Yes Mr Bhagwat, men are capable

Live Mint  

Is your man a hunter? Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat actually thought he was making a speech about women’s empowerment when he said earlier this week that nature has handed men the skills to hunt and labour but not the ability to juggle home and work. And effectively freed yet another generation of Indian men from basic daily responsibilities …

Opinion I Yes Mr Bhagwat, men are capable
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion I Yes Mr Bhagwat, men are capable

Live Mint  

Is your man a hunter? Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat actually thought he was making a speech about women’s empowerment when he said earlier this week that nature has handed men the skills to hunt and labour but not the ability to juggle home and work. And effectively freed yet another generation of Indian men from basic daily responsibilities …

Uphill Task: Survey Finds the Going is Tough for Working Women in India
5 years, 5 months ago

Uphill Task: Survey Finds the Going is Tough for Working Women in India

News 18  

An all-India study, one of the largest since Independence, has shed new light on the challenges faced by working women in India. Just 10 per cent working women in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir have access to crèche while this facility is almost non-existent in border areas of West Bengal. A significant number of working women told the surveyors …

India’s culture of toxic masculinity
5 years, 6 months ago

India’s culture of toxic masculinity

The Hindu  

Three images of social violence have haunted me recently. I am reminded of a Latin American friend who told me that he loved the drama and action in Hindi films but, confronted with the hero’s androgynous features, was perplexed: “Why do they cry so easily?” Relatedly, it is uncharacteristic of men to adopt the point of view of others, show …

Men's rights activism on the rise in India in response to #MeToo movement
5 years, 10 months ago

Men's rights activism on the rise in India in response to #MeToo movement

The Independent  

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Opinion| Politics is still considered a man’s world. Why this must change
6 years, 2 months ago

Opinion| Politics is still considered a man’s world. Why this must change

Hindustan Times  

Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Sadhana Singh, a legislator from Uttar Pradesh’s Mughalsarai, recently courted controversy after attacking Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati with caste and gender-coloured remarks, calling her a “blot on womankind” and “worse than a eunuch”, a vicious jibe at both women and the transgender community. The attempted disrobing of the late AIADMK’s leader Jayalalithaa’s in the Tamil …

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