Bengaluru attacks: Misogyny by night and day
8 years, 2 months ago

Bengaluru attacks: Misogyny by night and day

Al Jazeera  

The toxic masculinity that triggered the New Year Eve’s attacks on women was there in the morning to deny they happened. The kneejerk reaction of the Indian political establishment was to blame “western culture” – Karnataka’s Home Minister G Parameshwara blamed young women for their western attire, while Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi blamed the late-night revelries as a western import. Violence against women is universal, so, we end up with multiple iterations of the same tragedy, with eerily similar responses: In India, the ruling class blames western culture. Whenever I hear western culture being taken to task for home-grown, home-made misogyny, I’m tempted to produce an encyclopedia of evidence of sexual violence within Indian culture. OPINION: Indian Muslim feminists – we are reformists not traitors Somewhere in this extended process, slut-shamed and victim-blamed, we are reduced to being the nothing more than the violation that was enacted upon our bodies: the woman of the groped breast, the woman of the pinched bottom, the battered woman of the violent marriage, the woman of the multiple gang rape, the woman of the date-rape, the young woman sold into prostitution, the corpse that endured custodial torture… The woman’s body as battleground of resistance Once limited within these humiliating acts of violence, the dehumanisation ensures that we are no longer individuals.

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

Transforming ‘men’-talities, redefining masculinity
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Transforming ‘men’-talities, redefining masculinity

The Hindu  

As another International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women passes by, we face a stark truth: despite decades of advocacy, nearly one in three women worldwide has endured violence at the hands of men. An India report UNESCO’s Transforming MENtalities initiative has aimed to shift the way men engage with gender issues — not just as allies but …

This week in gender news
2 months, 2 weeks ago

This week in gender news

The Hindu  

Welcome to The Hindu’s newsletter that puts gender front and centre. This week in gender news The plan was to begin this week’s newsletter with a take on how cities in the South continue to rank as India’s top cities for women. This is based on social and industrial inclusion, according to the third edition of ‘Top Cities for Women …

Gender Agenda newsletter: A Sunday afternoon nap
3 months, 1 week ago

Gender Agenda newsletter: A Sunday afternoon nap

The Hindu  

Welcome to The Hindu’s newsletter that puts gender front and centre. In the best tradition of sisterhood, three of us will share the ‘work’, one every week, each from a different generation of women. A Sunday afternoon nap There is a set of three pictures in photographer Krithika Sriram’s exhibit Anbu Magal at the Chennai Photo Biennale, inaugurated this week, …

Men’s Rights or Misogyny? The Fallout of Atul Subhash’s Tragic Death
3 months, 1 week ago

Men’s Rights or Misogyny? The Fallout of Atul Subhash’s Tragic Death

The Quint  

The tragic suicide of Bengaluru-based IT professional Atul Subhash has exposed systemic inefficiencies in India’s legal system. Yet, instead of addressing these failings, certain groups have used his death to fuel hatred against women, undermine progressive laws like IPC 498A, and skew public perception. Atul Subhash’s tragic suicide raises critical questions about systemic inefficiencies, not a blanket misuse of laws. …

From the India Today Archives (1980): Indian women: A time for reckoning
4 months, 2 weeks 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 …

Bengaluru: Woman accuses 10-year-old of sexual abuse after he gropes her in public, incident caught on camera
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Bengaluru: Woman accuses 10-year-old of sexual abuse after he gropes her in public, incident caught on camera

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: A social media influencer has shared a harrowing incident of being sexually abused by a ten-year-old boy while she was returning to her home from work in Bengaluru. Imagine how many similar incidents must have happened with people and weren't reported,” the influencer girl, Neha Biswal, said in the video, which Karnataka Portfolio also shared on X. Several social …

‘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 …

Neha Dixit on gender, the informal economy and the invisible work of women
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Neha Dixit on gender, the informal economy and the invisible work of women

Hindustan Times  

There are many ways in which you could choose to approach Neha Dixit’s first book, The Many Lives of Syeda X: The story of an unknown Indian. When it's someone like a home-based worker who's working in different workplaces or from home and dealing with many people, when it comes to sexual violence, there is actually no mechanism for her …

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

Legally Speaking | Rape, outrage, and the legal system: Tracing the evolution of India's rape laws
7 months, 1 week ago

Legally Speaking | Rape, outrage, and the legal system: Tracing the evolution of India's rape laws

Hindustan Times  

The brutal rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College has once again highlighted issues surrounding violence against women, the role of the legal system, and societal attitudes. The history of rape laws in India reveals that public outrage following heinous crimes has often served as a catalyst for legal reforms. The term "rape" …

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 …

Review: Making the ‘Woman’ by Sutapa Dutta and Shivangini Tandon
8 months ago

Review: Making the ‘Woman’ by Sutapa Dutta and Shivangini Tandon

Hindustan Times  

Discussions on gender often trigger an intense debate about whether it is tied to biology or is a social construct. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} 240pp, ₹1295; Routledge It assumes even greater importance as gender has been central to India’s experience of alien rule and cultural subjugation. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} All this is skillfully articulated in Making the …

Explained: The outrage in West Bengal over public flogging of a couple
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Explained: The outrage in West Bengal over public flogging of a couple

Firstpost  

The public flogging of a couple over an alleged extramarital affair in West Bengal has sparked outrage. Investigation proceeds.” TMC’s response Responding to the shocking incident, TMC district president Kanaiyalal Agarwal said, “The man and the woman were engaged in an extramarital affair. Be it Sandeshkhali, Uttar Dinajpur or many other places, Didi’s West Bengal is UNSAFE for… — Jagat …

Disruptive desire and the Indian male | Review of ‘The Remains of the Body’ by Saikat Majumdar
9 months ago

Disruptive desire and the Indian male | Review of ‘The Remains of the Body’ by Saikat Majumdar

The Hindu  

Having grown up queer in the 90s, I’ve looked on with envy at the ease between heterosexual men. Instead, the novel positions us to see his desire towards Avik as the kind I’ve always assumed straight men feel for each other. There’s Avik and Sunetra’s “quiet dance of marriage”, Sunetra and Kaustav’s relationship, North American academia and Bengalis in America. …

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 …

#RespectWomen: Sadhguru condemns rising sexist remarks against women ahead of Lok Sabha polls
11 months, 2 weeks ago

#RespectWomen: Sadhguru condemns rising sexist remarks against women ahead of Lok Sabha polls

India TV News  

Spiritual leader and founder of Isha foundation, Sadhguru has strongly condemned the rising sexist and derogatory comments towards women leaders in the political discourse ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024 and has urged everyone to 'change the narrative'. It doesn't matter which party you belong to, please block out these people," said Sadhguru in a video message posted on social …

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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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 …

Cannot excuse sexual violence against women in Manipur on ground that crimes are committed against them in other parts of country: Supreme Court
1 year, 7 months ago

Cannot excuse sexual violence against women in Manipur on ground that crimes are committed against them in other parts of country: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday said the “systemic” and “unprecedented magnitude” of sexual violence committed against women in Manipur amidst ethnic clashes cannot be excused on the ground that crimes happened to women in other parts of the country too. “You cannot excuse what is taking place in Manipur now on the ground that such crimes are happening to several …

OPINION | BENGAL : THOSE WHO ASSAULTED WOMEN MUST BE PUNISHED
1 year, 8 months ago

OPINION | BENGAL : THOSE WHO ASSAULTED WOMEN MUST BE PUNISHED

India TV News  

At a time when the nation seethes with anger over the parading of two naked women in Manipur, disturbing reports have come from West Bengal of two BJP panchayat poll women candidates beaten up and stripped by alleged Trinamool supporters. Whether it is Manipur CM N. Biren Singh or West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, I want to remind them of …

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, 4 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 …

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 …

Untitled Story
3 years, 5 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 …

Women's day: Of Courts And Women
4 years ago

Women's day: Of Courts And Women

Live Law  

On 1st March, 2021, the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde asked a man accused of raping a minor in 2014 whether he would marry her. However, very recent judgements such as Karnataka High Court's observations on how a survivor should behave post rape and the Madhya Pradesh High Court's direction to a man, accused of molesting a woman, to …

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 …

Support BLM Movement, But What About Patriarchy & Colourism Here?
4 years, 8 months ago

Support BLM Movement, But What About Patriarchy & Colourism Here?

The Quint  

Women’s bodies and the idea of beauty have always been a site of contention due to the East’s rendering of “culturally pure” image and the West’s colonialism and capitalism. While many shall put the blame on colonisers for breeding this racial superiority complex in Indians – including the British, Dutch, Portugese, Mughals, Afghans, and so on – there is enough …

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 …

What 'bois locker room' case underscores about misogyny: The real problem isn’t on Instagram, it’s in our homes
4 years, 10 months ago

What 'bois locker room' case underscores about misogyny: The real problem isn’t on Instagram, it’s in our homes

Firstpost  

The execution of the men responsible for torturing and raping Jyoti Singh on a Delhi bus in 2012 has deterred nothing. Even the national lockdown has done nothing to slow India’s epidemic of savage violence against women: In recent weeks, a 10-year-old was gang-raped and left for dead in a field in Bihar’s Vaishali; a seven-year-old was raped and blinded …

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 …

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 …

Uphill Task: Survey Finds the Going is Tough for Working Women in India
5 years, 6 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 …

The violence of our rotten selves: Dirty linen from a judge’s home
5 years, 6 months ago

The violence of our rotten selves: Dirty linen from a judge’s home

Deccan Chronicle  

The ghastly and gruesome videos that Sindhu Sharma released in a last-ditch attempt to retrieve her children from the clutches of her ruthless husband and in-laws that are doing the rounds of the social media should give us more than routine voyeuristic pleasure masked as outrage. The routine nature of it is evident in the dog in the videos calmly …

India’s culture of toxic masculinity
5 years, 7 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 …

Opinion | Changing the status quo on sexual assault
6 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Changing the status quo on sexual assault

Live Mint  

On the morning of 17 December, 2012, Delhi woke up to a horror story of gang rape and torture of a woman who eventually succumbed to the brutalities. As widespread protests erupted following the ‘Nirbhaya’ case, people and specifically women became increasingly aware of their vulnerability—that another such incident may be lurking just around the next corner. This plays out …

It's taken a year, but thanks to the bravery of a handful of women, India has finally moved into the Me Too era
6 years, 4 months ago

It's taken a year, but thanks to the bravery of a handful of women, India has finally moved into the Me Too era

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It wasn’t that Indian women were …

#MeToo Movement In India: Need For A Comprehensive Legal And Social Engineering
6 years, 5 months ago

#MeToo Movement In India: Need For A Comprehensive Legal And Social Engineering

Live Law  

Be it a spontaneous overflow of suppressed psychological and emotional trauma or a practical manifestation of ‘the theory of contagion’, the ‘#MeToo movement’ has come to stay in India.Bedeviled by a puritan conscience, while legislators, progressive members of the executive as well as members of the legal fraternity of the country have made common cause with the victims of. Bedeviled …

#MeToo Movement In India: Need For A Comprehensive Legal And Social Engineering
6 years, 5 months ago

#MeToo Movement In India: Need For A Comprehensive Legal And Social Engineering

Live Law  

Be it a spontaneous overflow of suppressed psychological and emotional trauma or a practical manifestation of ‘the theory of contagion’, the ‘#MeToo movement’ has come to stay in India.Bedeviled by a puritan conscience, while legislators, progressive members of the executive as well as members of the legal fraternity of the country have made common cause with the victims of. Bedeviled …

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