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‘We are considered servants, not humans’: Women of Jai Bhim Nagar reveal the violence of domestic work

As the first rays of dawn hit the broad, grey-bricked footpaths of Powai’s Hiranandani locality, Darshana begins her day. Inside the blue hues of her current “home”— the tarpaulin-covered dwelling within which she, her family, and hundreds of others rendered homeless by the BMC-led demolition of their houses, have been living for the past five months—she starts her day with work. She washes dishes, cleans the cement side-walk on which rest the mattresses her family and she sleep on, and prepares meals on wood-fired chulas using the limited utensils she was able to salvage before the kitchen in her home was destroyed by bulldozers. By the time the sun shines bright, she has readied her two children, fed them, and sent them to school.

SC’s landmark judgment: Equal roles for women in the Army

The SC ruled that all women army officers are eligible for permanent commissions, commanding roles

Can’t have rules violating students’ dignity: NCW

NCW representatives met girls of the Gujarat college who were allegedly forced to strip by the authorities to prove that they were menstruating

Four, including Principal, booked for humiliation of 68 girls in Bhuj hostel

The authorities of the SSGI had demanded that the 68 girls prove that they were menstruating

Rein’state’ed – The case of the ‘exchanged’ women at Partition

The paradigm of the “recovery” and “restoration” of women was a form of biological citizenship, as it entailed not only determining the religion (at birth) of a woman, almost as if it were a biological characteristic, but also her biological status as a woman whose body had been violated, impregnated, or otherwise defiled by union with a male of another religious community

Protests against Delhi police brutalities on women students at Jamia, inaction at Gargi College

It was reported that at least 10 women protestors at Jamia were hit on their private parts by the Delhi Police

Picture of two Elderly Women at Shaheen Bagh, is worth thousand words

Divided by class and privilege, but united by compassion and patriotism

Draped in yellow, Malerkotla rises against the CAA-NPR-NRC

The women, students and farmers in the town are planning for a mega rally against the CAA-NPR-NRC on February 16

Never-the-less, she persisted: The true meaning of Mumbai Bagh

Another group of women protesters who refuse to back down are taking a hostile regime head on with decidedly peaceful means.

Male troops not ‘mentally schooled’ to accept orders from women: Center

Government cites physiological differences and peril of being taken as prisoners of war to refuse command posts to women officers

Did UP Police lathi-charge women anti-CAA protesters in Azamgarh?

Women were holding Shaheen Bagh style sit-in protest, when male police officers allegedly rained lathis on them

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