Gender and Sexuality

Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books

An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct

MP: Beautiful woman ‘distracts, rape may follow’ says Cong MLA, outrage follows

Intemperate and insensitive remarks by Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya on women, rape and women from Dalit and Adivasi communities have left the Congress shame-faced on the eve of LoP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the state

Manipur gang-rape survivor dies without justice, three years after 2023 ethnic violence

Abducted, brutally assaulted and gang-raped during the Meitei–Kuki conflict, the young Kuki woman succumbed to trauma-linked illness as her case languished without arrests, exposing systemic failure in prosecuting sexual violence in Manipur

BMC: Women corporators past the 50% mark, 121 women get elected in 2026

A total of 121 women got elected the Mumbai Mahanagarpalika in 2026, crossing the 50 per cent mark: with 227 corporators in all; BJP has sent 47 women to the civic body, Shiv Sena (UBT)34, SS (Shinde) 17, Congress 13, MIM 4, MNS 4 and NCP and Samajwadi Parti one each

Acid Attacks: The judicial struggle to regulate acid violence in India

From the landmark mandate of Laxmi v. Union of India to the BNS, a critical examination of why progressive legal doctrine continues to falter against the wall of administrative inertia and systemic trial delays

Protest outside Delhi HC gate over bail in Unnao rape case, survivor’s mother asks for maximum punishment

Protesters gathered near the court premises, raising slogans and expressing opposition to the bail order

Delhi HC grants bail pending appeal to Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar

The bail order accompanies a temporary suspension of sentence for Sengar will walk free; it has returned public attention to the survivor and her mother's pursuit of justice since 2017; Sengar will, however, remain in jail as he is also serving a 10-year sentence in the custodial death case of the rape victim’s father

Rajasthan panchayat in Jalore district bans camera phones for daughters-in-law

A village panchayat in Rajasthan's Jalore district has prohibited daughters-in-law and young women from 15 villages from using phones with cameras starting January 26 which is also India’s Republic Day, the day the Indian Constitution came into force. Instead, they will only be allowed to use keypad phones instead of smartphones; explaining the rationale, Sujanaram Chaudhary said the community believes that excessive smartphone use by women leads to prolonged screen exposure for children living with them

When Power Forgets Consent: How a public act by the Bihar Chief Minister derailed a doctor’s career

Outrage widens after CM Nitish Kumar pulls down Muslim woman doctor’s hijab at appointment ceremony; FIRs filed, media barred, national leaders condemn act

Allahabad High Court registers suo moto PIL over delays in termination of pregnancy of rape survivors

From September 2025, three months ago, the Allahabad High Court has registered a suo-moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding the issue of delay at different levels in taking appropriate steps while dealing with cases of termination of pregnancy of rape survivors

Silent Scars: How Muslim widows of hate crimes endure layered, unseen oppression

Ayesha or Samreen, Maharashtra’s Muslim women widows of hate crimes live abandoned by family and society, haunted by questions to which neither state nor society provides healing or answers

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