by Anupama Bijur | Aug 5, 2024 | Features, InkSights
The 2024 Paris Olympics aimed for gender parity among athletes – 5,630 men and 5,416 women are competing. (Source: CNN) But what’s grabbed attention is calls for a “gender eligibility test” after Angela Carini of Italy withdrew from a boxing match with Imane Khelif of...
by Anupama Bijur | Jul 2, 2024 | Features, InkSights
June 30 is celebrated as World Social Media Day. While technology is empowering and enabling, it has also helped to transfer and recreate misogyny, sexism and violence against women in social networks. A few years ago, extreme misogyny existed on platforms like...
by Anupama Bijur | Jun 3, 2024 | Features, InkSights
Nearly a month after he left India after videos of him, allegedly sexually abusing scores of women came out, suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna returned to Bengaluru on Friday, May 31. In a move he may not have anticipated, women officers from the Special...
by Anupama Bijur | May 2, 2024 | Features, InkSights
In the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections, when there were a host of burning issues like jobs and inflation to address, women became the target, victims and pawns, as rape tapes, misogynistic and sexist remarks brought political campaigns to new lows. The NWMI has...
by Anupama Bijur | Apr 1, 2024 | Features, InkSights
Many cities in India are experiencing water scarcity this summer. In Bengaluru, there’s a water emergency. According to Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, of 13,900 public borewells in the city, 6,900 have gone dry, and water in the Cauvery river, the chief source...
