The safety of women and men in any country is a matter of importance. Security, equality, and justice are fundamental human rights everyone deserves. Women from all walks of life live in a constant state of fear. They fear judgment on the basis of their gender. The innumerable threats and … Continue Reading
Women’s Safety: The Situation in Manipal
Safety— according to a quick Google search— is the condition of being protected.
But safety, for most of the women in India, means anything but that. For many women, it means fighting a constant battle for their right to live; sometimes from the second they are born. For … Continue Reading
Women’s Safety—The Situation In India
India is a country of vast culture and beliefs. We adorn our women with the jewels and statuses of gods. We call our country “Bharat Mata”. However, most of this respect comes in the form of them just being mothers. Women are rarely looked beyond their role of a caregiver; … Continue Reading
Violence Within Homes During Lockdown
Who knew that we would be witnesses to such a catastrophic event in the world, the likes of which has never been seen before? To prevent the spread of a tiny virus, we are confined within the four walls of our homes and forced to give up our education and … Continue Reading
The Social VIP Ticket: Male Privilege
The term ‘male privilege’ might ring unfamiliar in your ears. Is it really possible that four syllables could singlehandedly explain why you got interrupted midway through a sentence, why the pockets on your pants are miniature “pockettes”, why you couldn’t drink alone at a bar without having to deal with … Continue Reading
Me Too
Navratri, this year, has been made special by the replacement of song and dance with closeted allegations and withheld claims of the women of our country finally seeing the light of day. The accumulation of atrocities faced by them behind closed doors, followed by their subsequent and ignored cries for … Continue Reading
Your body, your rules
The significant rise in the number of rape cases and the fact that a marriage certificate is permission for the husband to force physical contact on his wife and get away with it is a testimonial to our country’s sad reality, a reality where the people still do not know … Continue Reading
#YesAllWomen
It’s been almost a month since we flinched at our TV screens and shrank at the sheer atrocities women of this nation face.
Sigh.
We know how 2017 started off. The initial uproar has died down, but let’s recall what happened anyway.
On 31/12, thousands of people gathered in … Continue Reading