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Kavita Krishnan
Kavita Krishnan is a regular Scroll.in contributor
Kavita Krishnan argues in her new book that more autonomy means more safety for women in India
An excerpt from ‘Fearless Freedom’ by Kavita Krishnan.
Kavita Krishnan
· Feb 27, 2020 · 08:30 am
Two women, two policemen: The Ishrat Jahan and Pragya Thakur cases are a study in contrast
By asking us to accept the fates of Jahan and Thakur, Hemant Karkare and DG Vanzara as normal, the BJP is appealing to the worst prejudices of Indians.
Kavita Krishnan
· May 28, 2019 · 08:00 am
Indefinite strike by Bihar’s ASHA workers is another reminder that they are overworked, underpaid
The ASHA unions in Bihar are demanding government employee status and a minimum wage.
Kavita Krishnan
· Dec 21, 2018 · 02:30 pm
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Many Indians are deciding not to bring children into this overpopulated, unkind world
Jul 23, 2018 · 11:30 am
Indian innovation: The pressure cooker fix that saved TTK Prestige from imminent bankruptcy
May 23, 2018 · 08:30 am
Why did a cloth brand once promoted by Bond and Bachchan shut shop in India?
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Watch: Actor Madhuri Dixit releases her first song, ‘Candle’. It’s lockdown-themed. It’s in English
Yesterday · 07:05 pm
The Political Fix: What has India’s stringent Covid-19 lockdown actually achieved?
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Civil offence for Hindus, crime for Muslims: The triple talaq ordinance is plainly discriminatory
Deserting one’s wife without a valid divorce is now a criminal offence for Muslim men but a civil offence for men of other communities. The ordinance must go.
Kavita Krishnan
· Sep 24, 2018 · 08:00 am
‘It’s like blackening faces’: Why I am uneasy with the name and shame list of sexual harassers
We cannot afford to throw away due process and adopt vigilantism.
Kavita Krishnan
· Oct 25, 2017 · 07:30 pm
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
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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
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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
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