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10 Jul 2014 3 minute read

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India’s Muslim women say ‘no second wife!’

... most poor, illiterate Muslim women voted to ban polygamy. (India has Hindu, Muslim and Christian Personal law, in addition to national ...

17 Mar 2017 3 minute read

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Chalo Nagpur: India’s women’s march against fascism and caste

... protest used since the start of the Independence movement in India. Nagpur, capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra in the west of ... opposition to the growing fascist and anti women forces in India.’ It’s a rare note of hope in these troubled times. All power to ...

1 Oct 2013 10 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Girls not allowed

... Choosing boys over girls in China and India has already skewed the global average sex ratio at birth to a ... husbands with a son. Such brutal customs are rare in India today, sociologists say, and confined to certain isolated communities. ...

2 Mar 2010 2 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Women at work

... Women weed the gardens at Sariska Palace in Rajasthan, India. My photographic journey has been a strange one, as it seems to ... looking, they were everywhere! From the remote villages in India and Vietnam to the modern streets in Singapore, they were making a ...

5 Sep 2011 3 minute read

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Disappearing girls

... note. Families in China, like those in many parts of India , have been aborting female fetuses for many decades. The heir apparent ... of sorts. But like Punjabi males who have to go to India’s poorer states for brides, Chinese men are now looking to Korea and ...

25 Aug 2015 3 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Women’s time will come

... week Delhi was officially declared ‘the rape capital of India’, by a census bureau. No-one was surprised. But Meenu started her taxi ... apart from the universal jokes, is especially difficult in India. One of her women drivers reports that when male drivers see the women ...

5 Apr 2000 4 minute read

This article is almost 19 years old.

View From The South

... years, we’ve seen a slow but sure erosion of democracy in India. But we haven’t really noticed it because it’s happened in small, ... that a Muslim film star ‘prove’ his patriotism to India by returning an award given to him by Pakistan. And once again, there was ...

1 Nov 2014 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?

... the medical director at Akanksha IVF Clinic, Anand, Gujarat, India. More than 825 surrogate babies have been born at her clinic. Her work ... to have brought in additional revenue of $1–2 billion to India in 2012. NO: Mohan Rao is a medical doctor, ...

27 Jul 2015 3 minute read

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Catholic nun barred, a step backward for women’s freedom

... nun was barred from a medical entrance examination, the All-India Pre-Medical Entrance Test, or AIPMT, last week. She was wearing her ... because of their hijabs. It’s quite a dilemma. In India we have separate personal laws for minorities. Muslims, Christians and ...

20 Dec 2017 5 minute read

Our favourite books of the month: December

... the invention of the Kalashnikov to the partition of India) in the news 70 years ago be relevant to us today? In 1947 – when ... war, the seeds of conflicts were being sown – Palestine, India/Pakistan – that remain unresolved today. Political seeds, too, were ...

15 Aug 2017 10 minute read

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Nepalese women defying patriarchy

... than 7,000 Nepalese women and girls were trafficked to India in 2014. As a result, there is an estimated 200,000 people working in ... are less important.’ Hearing her brother was in northern India, the family dropped everything to go find him, and fast. On the way, ...

20 Jun 2011 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Define Feminism: a poem

... batch of British development students to be ultra careful in India. To cover up for their own safety. I hate doing it because saying ‘wear ...

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