Elementor #9673

[This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center] Bobby avoids leaving her room. Even on breezy days like the one we met in July this year. …

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“They Want To Show Us Our ‘Place’. We Will Continue To Show Up” Shahida Banu Takes Head-On Patriarchal Mores

Shahida Banu’s decision to run for the seat of a sarpanch of Kuraj panchayat in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan was met with great resistance from the …

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‘Where Can They Burn Their Pads?’ Caste And Access To Menstrual Products

Lack of information on and access to hygienic practices adversely affects girls and women, especially from marginalized castes and tribes.Only 37% women across India reported experiencing …

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Livelihoods Lost, Jahangirpuri’s Muslim Women Struggle With Economic & Emotional Precarity

New Delhi: On the morning of April 20, Raheema Begum* watched as her family’s only source of livelihood, a cold drink kiosk, was reduced to rubble …

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How Indian Laws Patronise Working Women, Limit Job Opportunities

New Delhi: Leela had been a binding assistant at the Kerala Books and Publications Society, a state-owned textbook publishing house, for 19 years when she was …

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