by NWMI | Feb 13, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By Shoorpanakha One can almost feel General Election year 2019 creeping in, and nowhere is this more evident than inside Parliament. As prime minister Narendra Modi stepped up to the mic at the Rajya Sabha for a change, several members of the opposition were heard...
by NWMI | Feb 12, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By a contributor The people of Nagaland will cast their votes on February 27, 2018, for the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly. Formed in 1963 through a political agreement, Nagaland State has not had a single woman member of legislative assembly to date. Even in...
by NWMI | Feb 12, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By a Contributor The people of Nagaland will cast their votes on February 27, 2018, for the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly. Formed in 1963 through a political agreement, Nagaland State has not had a single woman member of legislative assembly to date. Even in...
by NWMI | Jan 14, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By Vanaja C The recent Assembly elections in Telangana, the youngest state in India, with 119 Assembly seats, reduced the representation of women in the legislature to less than 5 percent, with only six of the 135 women who contested having won the elections. This...
by NWMI | Mar 30, 2017 | 2017 Assembly Elections
By Kalpana Sharma If all-male panels are called “manels”, what should we call an all-woman panel? Womels? People, meaning even well-intentioned men, get irritated when women remind them that it is possible to attempt some kind of gender balance when...
