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By Ninglun Hanghal There has been a positive churning in electoral politics in northeastern India in recent years. Women are slowly but surely making their way into state Legislative Assemblies as elected members (MLAs). Although the numbers are still relatively small...
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 News of the first two women MLAs to be elected to the state Assembly, Hekani Jakhalu and Salhoutuonuo Kruse, received prominent media coverage both within the state and elsewhere in the country. Salhoutuonuo Kruse also became Nagaland's first woman...
By Aheli Moitra For representational purpose only. Women queue up to vote during the 2018 election in Nagaland. Nagaland votes on February 27 Nagaland got its first ever female Rajya Sabha MP, Phangnon Konyak, in 2022. She is the second woman from Nagaland to ever...
By Aheli Moitra A woman with a sling bag across her shoulder, paan across her teeth, stood beside the voters’ queue. Seeing the presence of election observers, she approached them and said, “Please write that election here has been peaceful.” Her hands swayed inward...
By Aheli Moitra Here's a narration of what women said while standing in the voters' queues around Dimapur, Nagaland. Some were either oblivious of, or had reconciled with, what a Member of Legislative Assembly owes to them but does not deliver, while some were using...
By Kalpana Sharma This article in Scroll.in is a useful backgrounder on the issue of women contesting elections in Nagaland. It points out the complex web of customary laws, and how difficult it is for Naga women to carve out a space for themselves. It is always...
By Aheli Moitra In Nagaland’s political scape, women have become buzz words and stepping stones to political power. Hypocrisy, insensitivity and ignorance define political manifestos and speeches around gender questions. But as long as patriarchy defines these...
By Kalpana Sharma In this report on the ongoing Assembly elections in Nagaland, Dipankar Ghose has gone beyond just reporting that five women are standing. Apart from profiling the independent candidate, he has also interviewed a women's rights activist on the...
By Contributor Can Nagaland create an enabling environment for women to become public leaders? Can political parties do more to support and strengthen women candidates? Can political structures in the State formulate their own policies to facilitate women’s...