by NWMI | Apr 13, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
What a missed opportunity this report was. The title of this piece ‘Meet India’s Most Powerful Women Politicians’ in the otherwise well-researched site Global Voices, offered some hope that it would be a serious report on women politicial leaders....
by NWMI | Apr 13, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
The Hindu made a strong comment on the remarks on rape made by politicians like Mulayam Singh Yadav and Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party. In its editorial titled “India’s pro-rapist lobby”, it went beyond criticism of the politicians and their...
by NWMI | Apr 12, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
Women’s participation in politics, as political representatives and as voters, has increased over the years. But women don’t necessarily have the power to make their own choices. This report by Supriya Sharma in Scroll.in finds that women in Haryana are voting on the...
by NWMI | Apr 12, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/open-mike-does-any-political-party-really-care-for-the-safety-of-women/463346-81.html Following the uproar over what is referred to as the “Delhi gang-rape”, women’s safety has been much discussed in the public sphere. Watch a bunch of...
by NWMI | Apr 11, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
This article (6 April 2014), attributed to AFP, on India Times, about Jayalalitha, Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati, is largely dismissive of the three politicians. It opens with exaggeratedly distorted (graphic) caricatures of the women. The headline – ‘Lok Sabha...
