Ancient Indian Poetesses

From Speaking Tree : A community’s development can be easily measured by the level of women’s education or status. If we take all the ancien...

Sorry State of Women In India

Tragic tales of violence against women and children has emerged from India.  Here are just a few of the headlines that have appeared this we...

Meghalaya: Modern Day Matriarchy

From the Sydney Morning Herald : The one and only place in India where the birth of a baby girl is greeted with ecstasy is Meghalaya, where ...

New Delhi Gang Rape Outrage

From Time World : Last Sunday in New Delhi, at around 9.30 p.m., a 23-year-old woman was gang raped for almost an hour on a moving bus and t...

Legacy of Begum Akhtar

From the Hindu Business Line : Once the toast of cultural circles, artistes and musicians often slip out of public memory as soon as they qu...

Tribal Tradition Broken In Bihar

From NDTV : Santhal tribals in a Bihar village have added a new chapter to their ancient custom of young men and women living together - all...

Beware The "Medicine Man"

From CBN : Every 12 seconds, a baby girl is aborted in India. That's about 7,000 girls killed every day just because they are females.  ...

Man Beheads Daughter

From NineMSN : An Indian father beheaded his daughter with a sword and paraded it through his village after learning of her alleged "in...

Jharkhand Women Still Witchcraft Victims

From the Daily Pioneer : In a shocking revelation, a report released by Jharkhand Human Rights Movement 2001-2011, says every three days a w...

Smita Jadhav - Increase in Dowry Deaths

From DNA India : The new head of the women grievance redressal cell of the Pune Police, Smita Jadhav, handles a sensitive posting. As an inc...

Tortuous Life of Women & Girls in Brothels

From the Times of India : One doesn't expect socialites to spend a languid rainy afternoon listening to horror stories. Especially when ...

India: Ganesh Madal Supports The Girl Child

From Express India : If many Ganesh Mandals have adopted the popular sentiment of the Anna Hazare movement against corruption to decorate Ga...

An Anglo-Indian Tale

From IBN Live : During the earlier period of the East India Company in India, it was a common practice for British men to take Indian women ...

Love in the time of Mughals

From the Sunday Pioneer : Mughal history, as we know it, is all about how the Muslim rulers won over vast tracts of land and established ki...

Notable Female Indian Politicians

From the Bangalore Mirror : For the first time in the history of our democracy, four states are being led by women chief ministers. Here’s l...

India's Glamour Royal Women

From rediff.com : These queens and princesses had hordes of admirers in their time and it's easy to see why. The Duchess of Cambridge an...

Generations of Remarkable Women

From the Deccan Herald : The women in this story are undoubtedly brilliant, but what shines through making their story so compelling is the ...

Assam Witch Hunts

From Indian Express : A spate of killings in Assam’s Kokrajhar district in the past one week has shed new light on rampant ignorance, illite...