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Jasmeen Patheja, founder of Blank Noise, and Elsa D’Silva, founder of SafeCity app, reflect on the roadmap to safety and equity in public spaces for everybody.

Menstruators face difficulties in accessing spaces in their everyday lives, including workplaces, public areas, transportation, schools, and homes: Nishant Bangera, founder of Muse Foundation and Maasika Mahotsav.

A total of 1930 characters from 35 films were analysed for their gender representation on screen

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Writer Neha Singh shared her journey as an author, which started with her first book, The Wednesday Bazaar.

Indranil Mukherjee/AFP As a pre-teen in the mid-1990s and the early naughties, every time I stepped out to buy something from the nearby confectionary store, I would be extremely aware of myself when walking. This was Kanpur, my hometown and an erstwhile industrial city in north India. From an early age I had been told to monitor, censor and diminish my outings as much as possible. I was a girl and repeatedly reminded of being one by elders. These outdoor trips, however short, were the head...

Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde asked last month why women had been “kept” at the farmers’ protests and praised Supreme Court advocate AP Singh (a man with a record of victim-blaming and support for honour crimes) for giving an assurance that women would be sent home and kept out of the protests. As an Indian woman, these developments fill me with a sense of foreboding and panic. Chouhan and Bobde are men with immense power, who do not feel obligated to listen to the voices of women. Th...

Women are people with an inalienable right to live the fullest of lives. Everything that prevents their life from being lived to the fullest extent of freedom, is a form of violence.