Rights for the Right Life “You’re a girl!’’ is probably a phrase a girl will spend listening to at each stage of her life if she is born in India. At times, she will be denied basic resources or sometimes presumed to settle for less. She could be stopped by societal barriers or simply forced […]
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The Descent of Devadasis If you were to google ‘Devdas’ you would see images of the famous Shah Rukh Khan movie with exquisitely dressed actors and actresses and theatrical images of distress. However, if you were to google Devdasi, you would be witnessing images of young girls, who have barely hit adolescence, with a morose
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Free to Obey; Obey to be Free Out of the millions of girls born annually in the Indian subcontinent alone, the majority do not live to see another season or even another day. Some of the lucky survivors live in orphanages and/or foster homes, that is, if they outlive the challenge where their biological parents
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Home is Where the Kids Learn Every parent cares for their children. But for the parents of girl children in India, it is a whole different tale. They are so perturbed by a myriad of little things that they actually forget to address very important issues. Growing up in this very society gives us many
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Theatre to Reach Girls Roles assigned to each individual in the society, based on their biological characteristics, did not emerge in the linear evolutionary manner. In the course of history, as the human brain evolved, it intended to build a certain foundational structure – society. For this deal to last in harmony, it was necessary
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Gender Representation in Children’s Storybooks Children’s books most of the time contain characters which are either fictional or dreamy, which on a surface spells magic with respect to anyone’s imagination of an alternative world. From a prince riding a horse to a barbie dream house, it covers it all. While it all seems to be
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Indian Sexpert, Dr. Watsa To The Rescue One relies on adults and institutions like schools and colleges to provide them the very-much necessary sex education. In India, however, the two apparently reliable sources have failed us at many levels. As a result, youth ends up educating themselves through means like social media, pornographic websites, and
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Women Property Rights in India Avni Gupta writes about the laws that pertain to women’s rights to inherit their familial property. Amidst our challenging confrontation with COVID-19 during the year 2020, there was a ray of hope India’s Supreme Court strengthened Hindu women’s rights of property inheritance. In the judgment, they have recognized women property
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Let’s talk! Sexual rights in India and Persons with Disability (PwD) Sexual rights, often misunderstood to a limited understanding of one’s right to sexuality. These human rights also include freedom, equality, privacy, security, etc. The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) defined, “Sexual rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human rights
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Homophobia and HIV: How Stigma Fuels The Epidemic The AIDS epidemic brings along with it painful stories of people who were cast away, ignored and discriminated against; the homophobia that was rampant before was only fueled further by the moralistic high-ground that the AIDS epidemic conveniently provided it with. The fueled discrimination and prejudice placed
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