-The Times of India NEW DELHI: "The teacher tells us to sit on the other side," said "Pankaj," an eight-year-old tribal boy from Uttar Pradesh, "If we sit with others, she scolds us and asks us to sit separately. The teacher doesn't sit with us because she says we are dirty." "The teacher didn't let us go to the toilet. One day, I asked her for permission to go to the...
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New initiative on coverage of women’s issues in polls-PV SriVidya
-The Hindu NAGAPATTINAM: How do the media frame Gender within the election paradigm? How are women located, and what's their vantage point in the vast repertory of election reportage by the media? The Network of Women in Media in India has initiated a Gender blog initiative called ‘Gender and Media Watch - General Elections 2014,' to look at the way the media covers women candidates, women voters, and how women are located...
More »Crimes Against Women Confined to Pockets of Delhi: HC
-Outlook The Delhi High Court today said crimes against women in the national capital occur more often in a few "pockets" of the city, particularly areas which have undergone rapid urbanisation. A bench of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice S Mridul made the remarks after going through the crime-mapping charts and tables submitted by Delhi Police pursuant to the court's order to undertake the exercise. "On going through the charts...
More »Supreme Court recognizes transGenders as 'third Gender' -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday created the "third Gender" status for hijras or transGenders. Earlier, they were forced to write male or female against their sex. The SC asked the Centre to treat transGender as socially and economically backward. The apex court said that transGenders will be allowed admission in educational institutions and given employment on the basis that they belonged...
More »‘Development is intrinsic to a secular project’-Garimella Subramaniam
-The Hindu If some communities have been denied the benefits of development on grounds of religion, this development is anti-secular, argues Rajeev Bhargava, political theorist Arch rivals the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party continue to trade accusations against each other of playing the communal card in the campaign to the general elections. These are classic instances of the confusion over what secularism is in India. Restoring clarity on the conceptual aspects...
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