by NWMI | Jun 5, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Vasanthi Hariprakash “Pombalenga yenge, paesalama?” (Where are the women, can we talk to them?) Asking just this question while reporting on any issue has been the game-, or rather the story-changer, for me many a time. Just like it was when I asked this in Tamil,...
by NWMI | Jun 2, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Manjira Majumdar The Women’s Reservation Bill – aka The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill – was first tabled in Parliament in 1996 and reintroduced by various successive governments over subsequent years. The 2008 version of the Bill which, like its earlier...
by NWMI | May 30, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Ammu Joseph As the results of the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 trickled in from the morning of Thursday, 23 May, NWMI members decided it may be worth noting the gender composition of the panels assembled by television news channels to comment on the unfolding...
by NWMI | May 29, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Sandhya Mendonca and Poornima Rajarao Contesting, let alone winning, an election at any level as an independent candidate is a difficult task, and all the more so when the goal is to become a member of Parliament. It was surprising that Sumalatha Amarnath, aka...
by NWMI | May 28, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
Guest Post by Tara Krishnaswamy Seventy eight is better than ever and yet simply not good enough. When just 8.8% are candidates, it is a minor miracle that 14.3% make it to the House. The evident paucity of women on the ballot points to endemic patriarchy in political...
