Category: Women in Hinduism & India

Of a dastardly crime, laws and the “system”

*** CAUTION: Disturbing post/ May Not be Suitable for Workplace *** This post is a “mixed” post in Hindi and English..It was triggered by an incident that Indra Vikram Singh (an IAC activist/coordinator from Indore),...

Depressed and sad…

…to read about the drop in sex-ratio in the latest census figures. The girl-child is the most precious thing any family and society can have. She is “Shakti” incarnate, the bearer of life, the...

Time for an overhaul of rape laws?

As another young girl is gang-raped in Delhi, is it not time to drastically overhaul rape laws that currently provide for a maximum of 10 years of imprisonment in rape cases? Should the maximum...