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By Preethi Nagaraj In electoral politics, men rule the roost. This is not only a fact but an evidently unchangeable fact and one that established more strongly with every passing election. After Independence, women expected increased representation in electoral...
By Sowmya Aji Women who win elections in Karnataka at the Legislative Assembly level and above have managed victories mainly due to “sympathy” or “protection” from a largely patriarchal voter population. This is true in all districts but Mandya, in South Karnataka, is...
By C.G. Manjula Over five thousand (5,102) nominations were filed by 3,632 candidates for the Karnataka Assembly polls to be held on May 10. Of the total number of nominations, 4,710 were filed by 3,327 male candidates and 391 by 304 female candidates; there was only...
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 Durba Ghosh The recently concluded Tripura Legislative Assembly elections have brought forth a skewed gender narrative. On the one hand, enthusiastic and politically conscious women voters have outnumbered their male counterparts in exercising their franchise...
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 Kamalika Sengupta (Guest Post) As I boarded my plane for Imphal, my expectation was that my coverage of the Manipur Assembly election would definitely include stories related to women. One of the first things I tried to do soon after I landed in Manipur was to find...
By Editors Campaigning for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh is in full swing and reporters are scurrying around the state looking for under-reported stories. Journalists from “mainstream” media tend to go to the popular districts, featuring prominent...
By Annie Philip “Everything was building up,” says this former Delhi University assistant professor on her debut journey into electoral politics. Anuroop Kaur Sandhu, 29, is a candidate with the newly formed Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) party from Muktsar constituency...
By Varsha Pillai (guest post) Kerala is one of the five states going to the polls today. This time too Kerala’s political partieshave displayed a very poor record of fielding women candidates, despite public revolts from women politicians (read more here) when the...
By Durba Ghosh This year, political parties in Assam have made promises galore to woo women -- 49.35 per cent of the electorate. The promises range from giving Rs 2,000 per month to housewives, Rs 365 as daily wages to tea garden workers, and increasing financial...
By Editors If you are wondering where the women candidates are again this election season or struggling to explain to someone else why we need more women candidates at every level of democracy and hence every level of elections, then here is the video for you. Shakti:...
By Ammu Joseph "Not BJP, not Congress: Women voters are real winners today," claimed the headline of a December 12 article that highlights the fact that female voters outnumbered men in a significant number of constituencies in the recent elections to the state...
By Ammu Joseph It looks as if it’s not just Bengaluru, but Karnataka as a whole, that’s unfriendly towards women in politics. According to this report in The Economic Times (also published in the Bangalore edition of The Times of India on 17 April, p2), “On an...
By Manasi Kumar We take elections very seriously in India - after all as the largest democracy in the world who sets world records with them, nobody really does them better than us. And, given the context of the conversations around gender today, it is also important...