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Redressing Violence Against Women in COVID 19: Experience of Hospital-based Centres in Mumbai, India
The pandemic has brought a sharp focus on the issue of domestic violence. Over the last few months while COVID 19 has in general led to deaths and disruption of lives, it has, in particular, been an e...
Category: Gender Issues
by Sangeeta Rege | On 01 Nov 2020
Unexplored “Bill of Rights” : A Magna Carta for Gender Justice and Budgeting in India
This paper explores the “Bill of Rights” in the Justice Verma Committee Report as an analytical framework for gender budgeting in justice. Gender budgeting in justice, as a public good, needs effectiv...
Category: Gender Issues
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 03 Mar 2017
The Violence of Disappearance: Reading the Boko Haram Kidnapping
‘To disappear’ is no longer a metaphysical-theological mystery or magic act, but a political invention that must be seen as integral to the violence of modern politics. Focusing on the disappearance o...
Category: Gender Issues
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 04 May 2015
Women and the RSS
Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehe...
Category: Gender Issues
by Namrata Ganneri | On 01 Jan 2014