The issue began to roam about in my mind when a friend of mine from the US who had visited India for a bit told me that she couldn’t go about anywhere in India in shorts or a knee-length skirt, or shirts without sleeves without being ogled at and sometimes, groped. What she told me … Continue reading Marginalisation and Objectification of Women by Kirthi Jayakumar

    Violence on Women as Depicted in Literature   Literature has always served as a mirror of society, projecting its virtues and reflecting the ills that plague it. ‘A theater, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. - Dario Fo.’ Violence against women as depicted in Literature, … Continue reading Violence on Women as Depicted in Literature by Vasudha Gulati

    ‘What do you want to do with her?’ screams the question accompanying the picture of a beautiful young teenager in a fake Facebook account. The responses to it are sickening and unreadable. It is apparent that the young woman had no idea where her photograph would end up or how it would be … Continue reading Violence Against Women by Bhuvaneshwari Shivakumar Shankar

  Female Genital Mutilation: A violation of a woman’s most basic Right to Health "My two sisters, myself and our mother went to visit our family back home. I assumed we were going for a holiday. A bit later they told us that we were going to be infibulated. The day before our operation was … Continue reading Female Genital Mutilation by Esha Chakraborty