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The popularity of novelist Ratna Vira, who writes about this common family drama, could be a sign of cultural shift. But for now, many women in India are discouraged from inheriting family property on the same basis as their brothers.
Ria Sharma wasn’t always an activist. Just a few years back she was a fashion student at Leeds College of Art. But she felt uninspired by the work, and decided to branch into film. Her first project: A documentary about acid attack survivors.
Even the monsoon rains don’t keep the women of Ghunduribadi, a tiny tribal village in India’s eastern state of Odisha, from patrolling the nearby forest at dawn.
The Moods Planet condom store is set on one of Panaji’s busiest streets. Buffered by a motorcycle repair shop on one side and a jeweler on the other, this brightly lit store with its distinctive logo — the shapely ‘o’s of Moods intertwined — seems incongruous.
Female feticide may be illegal in India but old structures of patriarchy combine with medical technologies to keep it going. We need basic awareness campaigns, not government mandates that will first invade a woman’s privacy and then backfire.
One girl says the self-defense training makes her feel more able to “escape an attacker.” Other girls like the training, but think boys also need to be taught to treat girls with more respect.
When I moved to New York in the fall of 2014, I left a few things in India: my family, my job with a leading English-language newspaper and my caste.
“I’m a human rights activist now,” Leslee Udwin says. Her film, still banned in India, is being aired on PBS today, Nov. 16. The government has made its own, official film about the notorious and vicious rape, which she shrugs off as reassuring propaganda.
Renuka Kotagiri, the founder of Cheyutha and an HIV patient herself, is feeling pretty down these days. In 2005 she won a major victory in getting the government to provide free ART medication. But now she speaks with a tone of despair.
What do Indian guys think about men who harass women in their country?