by NWMI | May 6, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
A fascinating story about patterns in women contesting elections appeared in The Hindu on 5 May. Headlined “Tickets for women expand female representation,” the report by Rukmini S. included several interesting nuggets of information. The most intriguing of these –...
by NWMI | May 6, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
A week before the last day of polling, a bouquet of stories on women and elections appeared in Mint. “Women in Parliament: the other 270+” by Kirthi V. Rao and Ashwaq Masoodi in the 5 May edition highlighted the startling fact that about half of India’s Lok Sabha...
by NWMI | May 3, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
This election season has been unusual on many fronts. I don’t remember another Indian election during which personal relationships were brought to centre stage in quite the way they have been focussed on this time around, with social media adding to the...
by NWMI | Apr 28, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
The long headline, “Lofty ideas for women’s uplift, little to help ease their burden,” more or less summarises the theme of Subodh Varma’s report in The Times of India on 26 April. Calling attention to the fact that in an election supposedly being fought on the issue...
by NWMI | Apr 26, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
Now this is a good piece from columnist Seema Goswami in Bruch – HT’s weekend lifestyle magazine. Now, that’s interesting in itself as we don’t need to look for women candidates in the news section alone…we can stumble upon them in the...
