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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
Why the case for same-sex adoptions is both moral and legal
After de-criminalising homosexuality finally in 2018, with the Navtej Singh Johar, the Indian Courts are now being compelled to legalise marriage and adoption
Pew Research Centre: 53% of Adults in India Support Legalisation of Same-Sex Marriages
The survey also examined how attitudes of people vary by geography, demographic factors, political ideology and religion
Its live-in and gay ties whip up cyclones like Biparjoy: HJS, Goa
From calling for an economic boycott of all Muslims, to demanding a film on Portuguese “atrocities” the HJS now, says that natural calamities like cyclone Biparjoy are caused by the “immorality” of live-in and gay couples
Kerala High Court Upholds Tribunal’s Order Directing PSC To Provisionally Accept Trans-Woman’s Application For Post Confined To Women Candidates
The Kerala High Court (HC) declined to interfere with...
Man allowed to change his name in service register after gender affirmation surgery: Rajasthan HC
The issue of recognition of transgenders in government and policy making is mired in bureaucracy and an obstructionist attitude
Same-sex marriage an assertion of love, marriage & inclusivity
This piece aims to explicate for the reader the juridical and political position of the institution of marriage. It further locates within these legal and political trends the case for same-sex marriage. The write-up dwells on the various instances where the State has intervened in the institution of marriage and how these interventions, accompanied by the laws and jurisprudence, lay the foundation for the current 18 petitions in the Supreme Court. This short article will also go on to explicate the understanding of same-sex marriage following the expansion of the Special Marriage Act of 1954.
Delhi police file chargesheet against BJP MP Brij Bhushan, submits cancellation report in POCSO Case
Sports Union minister had promised protesting wrestlers that the police investigation into allegations of sexual harassment would be complete by June 15
Clear case of re-victimisation: Former SC judge Madan B Lokur on Delhi Police’s handling of women wrestlers case
Singh is a powerful, well-connected person, who has not been arrested despite the allegation of aggravated sexual assault, says Justice Lokur
Coach accused of threatening Brij Bhushan complainants was also named in a wrestler’s 2017 sexual harassment FIR
The case against Mahavir Bishnoi is still in court, next date July 2023
Against overwhelming odds, women entrepreneurs in Kashmir Valley offer hope
Stories from the Valley after the devastating impact of the abrogation of Article 370 (August 2019) have been otherwise grim; here some real life accounts of Kashmiri women pioneering online businesses show us a tale of both resilience and hope
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