-Economic and Political Weekly While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the everyday practice and experience of going to dysfunctional toilets, particularly by women. By analysing the practices and problems associated with toilet use from a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to situate the issue in the everyday lives...
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A crime well reported is half-solved -Rukmini S
-The Hindu The latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau show that it is time to change our understanding of felony and its registration by the police With every passing year of writing on the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s crime data, it has become increasingly clear that what I am forced to do is essentially compare apples and oranges, and then make a normative call based on that comparison. This...
More »Delhi is the rape capital; NCRB data shows rape cases up 200% since 2012 -Aaron Pereira
-The Indian Express Data on cases of rape in India released by the NCRB has shown Delhi continues to top the list of cities where women are unsafe New Delhi: Crime data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Tuesday has once again revealed a rise in number of rape cases against women in the national capital. The total number of rape cases in India for the year 2014...
More »The spectre of suicide -V Sridhar
-Frontline As rural Karnataka reels under an unprecedented wave of suicides by farmers, the State administration looks on, unwilling to address the reasons that have rendered rural livelihoods fragile. DEATH stalks rural Karnataka. In the 41 days between July 1 and August 10, as many as 245 farmers committed suicide, an average of six a day; since April 1, 284 farmers have taken their lives. As a bewildered State government gropes...
More »During lathi-charge, it's the cops who suffer most: NCRB -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Police is routinely criticized for being baton happy and using undue force during lathi-charge to control crowds. However, a first of its kind data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show that whenever police have conducted a lathi-charge, it's the men in khaki who have suffered most injuries. The data show that in 2014 lathi-charge was carried on 382 occasions. In these, while 262...
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