Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
Resignation in Protest: MP woman judge quits over elevation of senior she accused of harassment and discrimination
In a powerful act of protest, Judge Aditi Gajendra Sharma resigns after the elevation of a senior she accused of caste-based harassment, calling out the judiciary’s silence, systemic bias, and betrayal of its own ideals
Don’t demand loans from those keeping home fires burning: National women’s organisations
National organisations come to the defence of SHG women, demanding the withdrawal of decision to collect outstanding loans from the marginalised.
Why do the mighty cry ‘defamation’ when accused of sexual harassment?
“It was important and necessary for women to speak up. Women are taught that silence is a virtue,” Priya Ramani told a Delhi court hearing MJ Akbar’s defamation allegations
Women in prisons: 2019
Here’s a look at the conditions in which female prisoners are lodged in Indian prisons, as per NCRB 2019 report
Two FIRs against AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair for ‘online harassment’ of minor girl
The portal AltNews has denied allegations and said this is an attempt to hound Zubair through the ‘misuse of legal apparatus’
How many rapes and murders will it take before the UP govt takes action?
The third case of rape and murder in just three weeks, reported from the Lakhimpur Kheri district, the victim was 3 years old
Hum Agar Uthe Nahi, a clarion call for Indians to show a united front
To fight the growth of fascist and neo-liberal forces, 400 human rights and women's groups call for a nation-wide campaign
Women auto-rickshaw drivers struggle to make ends meet during post-lockdown period
Auto-drivers hailed as warriors during the lockdown period continue to suffer from a dearth of adequate wages, lack of family support
Jharkhand woman killed on suspicion of being a witch
As police investigate the murder of a young woman in Giridih, this year’s witch-hunting toll in Jharkhand reached 12
Can another Phoolan blossom?
Bandit queen-turned-politician Phoolan Devi was born on August 10, 1963 in a Mallah family in Jalaun district of UP. Following a troubled childhood and child marriage, Phoolan joined a gang of dacoits where too she faced abuse, and was raped by a group of dacoits from the higher castes after being held hostage. After she escaped, she collected her gang and killed 22 members of the village where she was raped. Two years later, she surrendered and was shifted to jail. After being in jail for 11 years, she was released on parole in 1994. In 1996, she became an MP from Mirzapur constituency in UP, and was re-elected in 1999. On July26, 2001, Phoolan Devi was shot dead by three gunmen outside her house in Delhi.
Adieu Ilina (Sen)
Doyen of feminist politics, academic and activist who spent years working on healthcare in remote tribal regions, mostly in central India passes away in Kolkata on August 9
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Lucknow: Caste hierarchies & contract labour exploitation among sanitation workers
Sanitation accused their supervisor of coercion, wage manipulation and caste-based abuse, alleging that workers are being pressured to surrender a recently approved ₹2,000 wage increase while being denied entitled leave. The allegations reflect the broader vulnerabilities faced by sanitation workers in Uttar Pradesh, which has recorded the highest number of sewer and septic tank deaths in India since 2017
Rights
From Protest to Petition: Maharashtra’s Public Safety Act in the dock
After months of state-wide protests, thousands of objections and sustained civil society opposition, Maharashtra's controversial security law now faces a constitutional challenge before the Bombay High Court
Communal Organisations
51st Anniversary of Emergency in India: While the RSS supported the Emergency, it now ruthlessly presides over an ‘undeclared Emergency’
The RSS shakha, well documented for its recounting of a manipulated history has, over past decades laid claims to being part of the wider democratic struggle against the Emergency; archival documents from independent sources, civil servants and writers, as also its own archive clearly document otherwise.
Minorities
When the State Valued a Desecrated Grave at Rs 100: The Mathura cemetery controversy
The reported desecration of graves in a century-old Muslim cemetery in Mathura raises troubling questions about dignity, religious freedom and state accountability
India
To Karnataka’s Anti-SIR Movement: A note of caution and concern
While efforts have been afoot in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh by civil rights groups and people’s movements to ensure inclusion of the maximum number of eligible voters under the ongoing, expanded, SIR process. The author argues how these efforts may come to naught, given the structural issues involved: a compromised ECI, rushed timelines and the unlawful and rigid document-test for citizenship. In fact, robust efforts in Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu where similar efforts were made also came to naught.
Minorities
After Akbar Ali Mondal’s Killing, Pani Sol’s Hawkers Ask: How Will We Survive?
Ground Report I In Pani Sol, one of Bengal's largest villages of hawkers, Akbar Ali Mondal's killing has left thousands of Muslim traders fearful about earning a living and supporting their families
India
The BEST Strike: Years of unfulfilled promises, structural neglect and the future of public transport in Mumbai
From unpaid employee dues and stalled budget reforms to controversial depot monetisation and the expansion of the wet-lease model, the strike has reopened fundamental questions about the future of public transport in Mumbai
Rights
Declared Foreigners, Facing Deportation: Supreme Court grants interim relief
Women detained after being declared foreigners argue that tribunals disregarded substantial evidence and relied on minor inconsistencies to reject their citizenship claims