by Editors | Dec 1, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Ritwika Mitra Madhuri is an activist with the Madhya Pradesh-based Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan, a collective working for the rights of Dalits and Adivasis in the state. She spoke to NWMI ahead of the state election results about the struggles of Adivasis,...
by Editors | Nov 29, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By C Vanaja A 25-year-old Dalit girl from a poor family, Karne Sirisha, famously known as Barrelakka (buffalo girl), has been making waves in the run-up to the Telangana Assembly elections. Contesting as an independent from a constituency named Kollapur, around 150...
by Editors | Nov 28, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Vanaja C Women make up less than 10 percent of contestants in the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections. Vijaya Reddy is one of them. She is contesting from the Khairatabad constituency of Hyderabad on the Indian National Congress ticket. It is a triangular fight...
by Editors | Nov 13, 2023 | Features, Gender, Media & Elections, National Politics
By Aheli Moitra 33% reservation of seats for women in urban municipal bodies Nagaland recently passed a historic legislation that reserves 33 per cent of seats in the state’s urban municipal councils for women. This development has ended, for now, a long and...
by Editors | Nov 10, 2023 | 2023 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Vidhu Lata Translated from the Hindi version by Sumita Jaiswal Jiski jitni aabadi, uski utni hissedari (an equal share according to our population)! Political parties across the spectrum have been raising this cry, along with demands for a caste census, as the...
