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By Swarna Rajagopalan (guest post) Over the years, I have come to bristle and splutter when asked to justify the importance of including more and more women — an equal number, even — in electoral nominations and political appointments. It’s 2021, I want to snap, and...
By Kalpana Sharma The tokenism that now marks International Women’s Day (March 8) has virtually become the norm. Politicians make ritual statements about women’s “empowerment”, the corporates and the retail sector reach out to their “market” consisting of women...
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 Raksha Kumar India Spend is publishing a three-part series on women in grassroots governance in Tamil Nadu. This is the first story, which looks at how women leaders are intimidated through violence. The article has stories of women who have been killed for being...
By Editors The Mumbai Press Club saw a full house for the release of Freny Manecksha's book Behold, I shine: Narratives of Kashmir's Women and Children. Freny described her journey of over seven years as she went from looking for stories to immersion journalism in a...