India Disgraced: Sustained Campaign Required to Cure Social Biases
9 years, 1 month ago

India Disgraced: Sustained Campaign Required to Cure Social Biases

The Quint  

India has rarely been as disgraced as now because of the assault on a group of Africans in Bengaluru, the country’s vaunted Silicon Valley. Yet, this city, which is supposed to represent a cosmopolitan ambience, witnessed two of the worst examples of behaviour for which Indians are becoming infamous. One is an old trait – an intense colour consciousness which is visible in the search for fair brides in matrimonial The second abominable feature of the present-day social life is a relatively new phenomenon – the sadistic targeting of women exemplified by the rising instances of rape, including of small girls. Related to this cruelty is the growing propensity for violence, which can make the environment seem like a tinderbox, ready to burst into flames at any moment.

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‘Antisocial’ Indians ‘shamelessly’ cut lines: Woman’s claim sparks debate, netizens slam generalisation
1 month ago

‘Antisocial’ Indians ‘shamelessly’ cut lines: Woman’s claim sparks debate, netizens slam generalisation

Live Mint  

“Indian families behave very antisocial out in public,” a woman claimed in a viral social media post as she commented on their “shameless” tactics to cut through lines or secure a good spot in public places like airports. Christiane F sparked a heated debate on social media with her “common knowledge” claim about the Indians, as netizens slammed her “ridiculous …

Delhi people seen as 'rude, uncultured' in Bengaluru: Reddit user's post sparks debate
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Delhi people seen as 'rude, uncultured' in Bengaluru: Reddit user's post sparks debate

India Today  

A Reddit user has triggered a debate online regarding the reputation of people from Delhi after claiming that residents of the national capital are often seen as “rude and uncultured” in Bengaluru. Your thoughts?” by a user named biryanikaghulam attempts to dive into the historical factors that might explain why residents of Delhi are often labelled as rude or aggressive. …

Hate for Delhi people ‘quite real’, says social media user after visiting Bengaluru; netizens share similar experiences
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Hate for Delhi people ‘quite real’, says social media user after visiting Bengaluru; netizens share similar experiences

Live Mint  

“Why Delhites are usually hyper aggresive?” asked a Reddit user. Delhi has been destroyed and rebuilt seven times, with its name changing many times, from Indraprastha to Mehrauli, Qila Rai Pithora, Siri, Tughlaqabad, Jahanpanah, Ferozabad, Dinpanah, Shahjahanabad, Dhillika, Dilli and finally Delhi, the user added. The social media user recently visited Bengaluru and noticed a strong dislike for people from …

‘Bengaluru people hate North Indians’: Girl’s comment in viral video starts discussions on social media; netizens react
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3 months ago

‘Bengaluru people hate North Indians’: Girl’s comment in viral video starts discussions on social media; netizens react

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: India's electronic capital, Bengaluru, has often sparked discussions on social media for a host of reasons—either its infamous traffic jams, the difficulties of finding a flat in the city, or the ‘Chill Guy’ meme featured in street paintings. This time, a girl's comment in a viral video has taken social media by storm. When asked about the culture shock …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Indian doctors’ strike: Everything we know about the brutal murder and rape case and mass protests in Kolkata
7 months, 1 week ago

Indian doctors’ strike: Everything we know about the brutal murder and rape case and mass protests in Kolkata

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. “The strike will continue until all demands are formally …

Crime in India: A critical review of data collection and analysis
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Crime in India: A critical review of data collection and analysis

Hindustan Times  

Safe countries bestow multiple social and economic benefits on the individual and larger community. While India is a relatively peaceful country by global standards, there is significant scope for improvement in terms of policing, the national criminal justice system, and how data on crimes is collected and analysed. Safe countries allow individuals to participate in leisure and productive activities without …

We, the People!
9 months ago

We, the People!

Deccan Chronicle  

Wait and watch till the end. But in stabbing or gun violence, a witness may feel hesitant to step in because their life would be at stake,” she elaborates.Another major factor is the fear of legality and harassment. There is still a gap between the commencement of these rules and their awareness among the common people,” informs Dr Anjali.The answer …

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 …

The View From India | Unending brutality
1 year ago

The View From India | Unending brutality

The Hindu  

Over the last five months, Israel has persisted with its bloody war on Gaza, mowing down citizens without any consequence yet. “This war should be brought to end immediately, and aid allowed into Gaza without any ifs and buts,” The Hindu’s recent editorial said. “A close analysis of India’s voting record at the UN, post-October 7, and the statements made …

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 …

India’s growing neighbourhood dilemmas
1 year, 3 months ago

India’s growing neighbourhood dilemmas

The Hindu  

The proverbial Achilles heel of Indian foreign policy continues to be its neighbourhood. But South Asia is not only not keen to jump on the bandwagon of the India story, but it is New Delhi’s dilemmas, the causes In general, there are three types of dilemmas that India faces in the neighbourhood. The second type of dilemma India faces in …

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 …

Indian Cinema & Caste: Can Coming-of-Age Content Change the 'Victim' Narrative?
2 years, 1 month ago

Indian Cinema & Caste: Can Coming-of-Age Content Change the 'Victim' Narrative?

The Quint  

The show opens with a cop investigating the murder of a girl student that periodically reveals the extreme power and privileges of the elites, the atrocious and precarious lives of the underprivileged sections, especially the Dalits, and the absence of any moral institution to address the everyday maladies. Importantly, the show deals with the excruciating complexities when the caste, religion …

From the India Today archives (2005) | The urban Indian woman: Single and unsafe
2 years, 2 months ago

From the India Today archives (2005) | The urban Indian woman: Single and unsafe

India Today  

It is 2.15 a.m. After a long night of study, two girls step out of their rented suburban home for a quick bite at a busy crossing. But it is not restricted to Delhi-though according to the National Crime Records Bureau, the capital accounts for over 30 per cent of rapes and abduction of women in urban India. A FICCI …

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 …

The hazards of radicalisation
2 years, 8 months ago

The hazards of radicalisation

Hindustan Times  

The killings in Udaipur and Amravati that came to light over the past week have shaken the country, underscored the dangers of fanning communal passions for sectarian and political considerations, and hinted at the insidious role of radicalisation in shredding the social fabric and pushing citizens towards theocratic and ideological impulses that sit uneasily with the rule of law as …

Violence in Indian life: Can rulers take steps to curb it?
2 years, 10 months ago

Violence in Indian life: Can rulers take steps to curb it?

Deccan Chronicle  

It is of secondary importance that 25-year-old B. Nagaraju, who was brutally hacked to death in Hyderabad’s Saroornagar area, was a Hindu or that his alleged murderers were Muslim. The party in power at any particular time might aggravate things but the violence exists irrespective of it, erupting in the killings of Mahatma Gandhi, Pratap Singh Kairon, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv …

The new violent India
2 years, 11 months ago

The new violent India

The Hindu  

A picture on social media last week said so much about India today. It is one where the leadership of the dominant political party is silent — because this violence solidifies hate and reaps electoral dividends. The “demolition of law”, which is the best way to describe this bulldozer violence, comes with a fig leaf of legitimacy, of the clearing …

Suspected rape and killing of Indian girl triggers protests
3 years, 7 months ago

Suspected rape and killing of Indian girl triggers protests

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Angry villagers in the Indian capital held a protest Thursday outside a crematorium where they say a 9-year-old girl was raped and killed earlier this week. Four men suspected in the crime, all of them workers at the crematorium, have been arrested but have yet to be charged, said police officer Ingit Pratap Singh. Police said the …

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 …

Days of 'Khela' and 'Boma': What Bengal Needs is an End to Decades of Political Violence
4 years ago

Days of 'Khela' and 'Boma': What Bengal Needs is an End to Decades of Political Violence

News 18  

In 1997, the government of West Bengal admitted on record in the state assembly that 28,000 political murders had been committed in the state since the Left Front came to power in 1977. How has India’s longest continuing nightmare of political violence been flying so smoothly under the ‘national’ radar? But the sections that talk about “death of democracy” or …

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 …

India: Protesters clash with police after rape victim’s cremation
4 years, 5 months ago

India: Protesters clash with police after rape victim’s cremation

Al Jazeera  

Protests erupted in several parts of India after a 19-year-old gang-rape victim from the Dalit community was cremated against the wishes of her family. The 19-year-old victim from the Dalit community – the lowest rung of the ancient Hindu caste system – was attacked and raped on September 14 in a field near her home in Hathras district, 100km from …

Indian artists demand end to violence against women
5 years, 1 month ago

Indian artists demand end to violence against women

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Dozens of artists and activists gathered in India’s capital on Sunday to demand an end to violence against women in a country where such crimes are rising despite tough laws enacted seven years ago. “Men, women and children who love and respect women should rise and say no more violence, enough is enough,” said Kamla Bhasin, South …

7 years after Delhi gang rape, brutal India attacks continue
5 years, 3 months ago

7 years after Delhi gang rape, brutal India attacks continue

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Days after an alleged gang-rape victim was set on fire, a note was left at the family home of an 18-year-old set to testify in her own case against a man she had accused of rape. “Consequences may be worse than what happened in Unnao,” the note read, alluding to the city in northern India where a …

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 …

Is Rape Serious Only Because a Woman’s ‘Honour’ Is Threatened?
5 years, 3 months ago

Is Rape Serious Only Because a Woman’s ‘Honour’ Is Threatened?

The Quint  

The case caused massive outrage across India. Politicians spoke of the need to ‘lynch’ the rape accused, or to hang them within 180 days. News anchors screamed that ‘when it comes to rape, justice delayed is justice denied’. The men, allegedly, tried to ‘snatch’ weapons, ‘fired’ at the police and began to ‘escape’. Popular actor Anupam Kher tweeted “congratulations and …

Anonymity is a necessary tool for India’s #MeToo movement
5 years, 5 months ago

Anonymity is a necessary tool for India’s #MeToo movement

Al Jazeera  

On September 30, the High Court of Delhi ordered the Scene and Herd Instagram account, which posted anonymous testimonials about sexual harassment and gender-based violence in India’s art industry, to be shut down. As one person explained to me: “Even the most powerful believe they are in positions of precarity, daring not to speak out against abusers lest they burn …

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, 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 …

Gurugram road rage incident: IndiaTimes gives it a communal angle when there is none
5 years, 10 months ago

Gurugram road rage incident: IndiaTimes gives it a communal angle when there is none

Op India  

In an unfortunate incident of road rage, one Dr Narul in Gurugram was beaten up by a mob when he went to buy milk for Iftar. However, IndiaTimes.com, a Times Group website, decided to twist its own report and give it a communal angle and declare the road rage as hate crime. As can be seen, the original Times of …

The savage in the mirror? It’s We the People
6 years, 2 months ago

The savage in the mirror? It’s We the People

Firstpost  

This Republic Day, as we celebrate the promise of democratic India, this one fact is inescapable: savage violence is our national language. “On your right,” wrote the philosopher Umberto Eco, after a visit to the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Vista, “you see Dracula raising the lid of a tomb, and on the left your own face reflected next to …

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 …

#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 …

#MeToo in India: Sexual assault and harassment have become the norm due to a culture built on toxic masculinity
6 years, 5 months ago

#MeToo in India: Sexual assault and harassment have become the norm due to a culture built on toxic masculinity

Firstpost  

The alleged behaviour of an Akbar or a Das isn’t deviance; it is the norm, the #MeToo movement has exposed. Rajnarayan Basu’s Nationality Promotion Society, for example, saw “gymnastic exercises”, the reform of the rice-based diet, and publications extolling “the military prowess of the ancient Bengalis” as key to a renaissance. There was an enthusiastic response: the Amrita Bazar Patrika …

Rahul Gandhi in Hamburg: Lynching, women's safety, hugging Modi and other takeaways from Congress president's speech
6 years, 7 months ago

Rahul Gandhi in Hamburg: Lynching, women's safety, hugging Modi and other takeaways from Congress president's speech

Firstpost  

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government on lynching in India, saying that it was due to anger emanating from joblessness and “destruction” of small businesses due to demonetisation and the “poorly implemented” GST. Rahul said non-violence in India was a foundational philosophy of our nationhood and the entire history while adding that “hate could not …

Chennai: Anger, discontent over status of girls' safety
6 years, 8 months ago

Chennai: Anger, discontent over status of girls' safety

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: The recent rape of a 11-year-old girl at an apartment complex in Chennai, allegedly by 18 men, has triggered widespread anguish and anger. Women should be economically independent.” Anita Ratnam of Arangham dance theatre says national focus started with Nirbhaya episode as the media has become far more vigilant. In the poll conducted by Thomson Reuters Foundation, India was …

‘Mobocracy’ cannot be the new normal, says India’s top court on lynching
6 years, 8 months ago

‘Mobocracy’ cannot be the new normal, says India’s top court on lynching

CNN  

New Delhi CNN — India’s Supreme Court has recommended the government enact new laws to combat mob violence, amid a sharp rise in the number of so-called vigilante attacks. In what amounts to a stinging denunciation of the central government’s failure to curb such incidents, the Supreme Court ruled that the State has a “sacrosanct duty to protect its citizens …

Crime against women up 83 per cent across the country
6 years, 8 months ago

Crime against women up 83 per cent across the country

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In 2011, India was ranked fourth in the list of the world’s most dangerous countries. Ranked “Worst” on all four indicators, which are, Cultural practices, Sexual violence, Economic Opportunities and Education, India has seen an increase of 83 per cent in crimes against women across the country. There needs to be an addition in the curriculum at a school …

Reflections: India as Lynchistan' Act before it's too late
6 years, 9 months ago

Reflections: India as Lynchistan' Act before it's too late

Deccan Chronicle  

Manmohan Singh had called the Maoist rebels “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country”. If Prime Minister Narendra Modi were equally realistic about the state of the nation as his predecessor, he would recognise not just that the assassination of Shujaat Bukhari, editor of Srinagar’s Rising Kashmir newspaper, highlights India’s rapid descent into the violence and …

Back Story: Why India’s rape crisis is getting worse under Narendra Modi
6 years, 11 months ago

Back Story: Why India’s rape crisis is getting worse under Narendra Modi

LA Times  

Demonstrators in Bangalore, India, hold a candlelight vigil in memory of an 8-year-old girl whose rape and killing has sparked national outrage. Misinformation on right-wing social media channels contended that Asifa hadn’t been raped, prompting state police to issue a statement over the weekend saying that the facts of the case were “established beyond doubt.” Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of …

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