Women & Child Development ministry
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Growing up in Begum Sultan Jahan’s Bhopal in the early 1900s meant picnics and a sense of freedom
Saeeda Bano
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Do the characters in the Ramayana follow ‘dharma’? This book investigates their actions
Arshia Sattar
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‘Suralakshmi Villa’: A world in which women stand up to patriarchy and abuse – and win
Namita Sethi
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‘She was very lucky indeed’: This short film highlights the subjugated life of a woman
Scroll Staff
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Watch: 68-year-old woman in a sari climbs up Harihar Fort in Maharashtra
Scroll Staff
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Why do women in South India have more freedom than their northern sisters?
Alice Evans
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In just four years, crimes against women increased in Uttar Pradesh by over 66%
Devyani Srivastava, IndiaSpend.com
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Children of women prisoners in India struggle to get proper food and education despite guidelines
Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com Preety Acharya, IndiaSpend.com
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Watt a feat: How women in a slum in Ahmedabad adopted energy-efficient practices
Renana Jhabvala Bijal Brahmbhatt
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‘The Shadow King’: The Booker shortlisted novel choreographs women’s footprints on the battlefield
Aditi Sriram
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‘India is not safe for women, more so for Dalit women’: Writer Suraj Yengde on Hathras gangrape
Scroll Staff
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What does it mean to be a Hindu woman? A new book explores the question
Wandana Sonalkar
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Satire: ‘Asking for it’ – what if women really used their clothes to convey what they want?
Scroll Staff
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Raising the minimum legal age of marriage for women to 21 years is neither feasible nor promising
Shireen J Jejeebhoy
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What contagion, confinement and companionship mean for single women in lockdown
Rashi Bhargava Richa Chilana
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India’s surveillance technology is policing the data and bodies of its most vulnerable citizens
Anja Kovacs
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Women are built to give birth to one child at a time. Then why do they have twins?
Joseph L Tomkins, The Conversation Rebecca Sear, The Conversation Wade Hazel, The Conversation
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In Pakistan, IT training programmes are looking to redefine women’s role in the labour force
Zofeen T Ebrahim, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Jobs in India: Yes, the workforce needs many more women. But first, their rights must be protected
Jeemol Unni
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In the lockdown, a reminder of the missing histories of women at work
Aparna Kapadia