Rape Culture
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Bois Locker Room: Delhi police file FIR after girl who exposed group allegedly receives threats
The girl said she had been receiving ‘threats, obnoxious and offensive’ messages on the social media for exposing the group.
Scroll Staff
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McDonald’s accused of ‘systematic sexual harassment’ of employees around the world
The complaint cited witness testimony of ‘attempted rape, indecent exposure, groping, and sexual offers’.
Scroll Staff
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‘Bois Locker Room’ rerun: Kolkata Police investigate JU student’s allegation of online abuse
The complainant said men in a WhatsApp group chat were verbally fantasising of sexually assaulting her.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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This holiday season, who’s ‘Uninvited’ from Goa?
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When a spiritual guru put the Indian government in a fix with a request for dual citizenship
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How Kerala’s Kozhikode became India’s first UNESCO City of Literature
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‘No data’ and other tactics: How the government is dodging RTI queries on health pacts with Big Tech
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‘Ours is the only Kashmir party under attack’: Waheed Parra on the loneliness of the PDP
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‘Bois locker room’: Delhi Police arrest admin of online chat group
The arrest came a day after the police took a school student into custody.
Scroll Staff
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‘Bois locker room’: Student from Delhi school taken into custody over Instagram group chat
The teenager, who studies at a well-known school in the Capital, has identified 20 more boys who were part of the social media group.
Scroll Staff
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‘Bois locker room’: South Delhi boys create Instagram group to share photos of girls, FIR filed
Massive outrage erupted after social media users posted screenshots of obscene conversations from the group.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Huge audience sings along to ‘Shauq’ with singer Swanand Kirkire in Delhi
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‘You cannot invoke martyrs to ask for votes,’ says TV anchor. Panelist plays PM’s speech in response
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Watch: Fashion show turns Manchester street into runway for models in the rain
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‘Incredibly rare’: Florida park celebrates first-ever recorded birth of white alligator
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Watch: Men try to frighten elephant with slippers, run away when it charges at them
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Shashi Deshpande: ‘Rape is an offshoot of the idea of power. Most women still remain powerless’
All the poems, the novels, the stories authors write, all the terrible stories that journalists give the world, cannot stop a single man from raping.
Shashi Deshpande
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Has Germaine Greer gone from feminist firebrand to professional troll (to promote her new book)?
Germaine Greer's recent comments on rape are glib, ill-informed and potentially dangerous.
Katie Edwards, The Conversation & Emma Nagouse, The Conversation
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Video: An exhibition recreated outfits worn by rape victims at the time of their sexual assault
Pyjamas, tracksuits and a child's t-shirt were part of the poignant exhibition, titled ‘What Were You Wearing?’
Shibika Suresh
The Reel
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Start the week with a film: ‘Somewhere’ is a sensitive look at an actor’s empty life
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Mining town-set film ‘Whispers of Fire and Water’ is an immersive experience
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In Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’, a solidarity that transcends differences
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In animated film ‘The Siren’, a reminder that ‘democracy and peace are never eternal’
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‘Mast Mein Rehne Ka’ review: A cheerfully meandering comedy