Period leave debate is a reminder that workplaces must provide for women’s needs

A Mumbai media firm’s offer of a day’s leave during menstruation has polarised opinion. But it is backed by cold facts and feminist scholarship.

Kavita Krishnan

· Jul 23, 2017 · 08:00 am

Threats to Gurmehar Kaur show how politicians use the deaths of soldiers as fodder for jingoism

Soldiers and their children pay the actual costs of war, while politicians reap the harvests from those wars.

Kavita Krishnan

· Mar 02, 2017 · 08:05 am

After Bengaluru, this is what women should say loud and clear to men

What we need is a commitment to defending women’s unqualified, fearless freedom and a zero-tolerance policy for victim-blaming.

Kavita Krishnan

· Jan 06, 2017 · 08:00 am

Strange silences, skewed concerns: The heartbreaking disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed

The inaction of the police and university authorities is baffling.

Kavita Krishnan

· Oct 31, 2016 · 08:30 am

A road to empathy and solidarity: A reading list on Kashmir

To move ahead, we need a new imagination.

Kavita Krishnan

· Jul 21, 2016 · 08:30 am

By trying to silence campus activism, education policy report is ignoring voices of India's students

The world over, student movements have been instrumental in bringing about social change.

Kavita Krishnan

· Jun 24, 2016 · 06:30 am

'Those who sought to defame and tarnish JNU tend to live in an echo chamber'

Kavita Krishnan's rejoinder to Amita Singh's claims that a Scroll piece tying her to a controversial university dossier were 'a figment of hateful imagination'.

Kavita Krishnan

· May 13, 2016 · 03:00 pm

Sex and sedition: What the JNU dossier tells us about the right-wing imagination

The report compiled by 11 teachers about activities on the campus is both sinister and side-splittingly silly.

Kavita Krishnan

· Apr 27, 2016 · 06:30 pm

Radhika Vemula lost her son. Now she's being insulted by the Modi government

In their tawdry claims that the scholar was not a Dalit, the BJP and the ABVP prove that they don't really understand motherhood.

Kavita Krishnan

· Jan 31, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Dear prime minister, spare us the tears – we want justice for Rohith Vemula

Modi said he feels the pain of the mother who lost her son. Does he really?

Kavita Krishnan

· Jan 25, 2016 · 08:00 am

JNU is no ‘citadel of divisiveness’ – that label suits the RSS better

Recent articles in Sangh publications explain why the RSS hates JNU so much.

Kavita Krishnan

· Nov 07, 2015 · 12:30 pm

Why reprimands of hatemongers by Shah and Jaitley are completely hollow

The calibrated condemnations are mere punctuation marks in the unbridled hatemongering by RSS and BJP members.

Kavita Krishnan

· Oct 23, 2015 · 12:30 pm