-Mail Today During interaction, about 1,000 girls disclosed that the people exploiting them sexually resorted to touching their private body parts. NEW DELHI: As the country has been raising a clamour to curb sex crimes against women, a large number of pre-teen girls studying in Haryana schools have reported sexual harassment. The startling revelations have come to the fore through a survey conducted by teachers of government schools in the state's Rewari district....
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Saluting the fiery spirit of Vinadi-Joan Mencher
-The Times of India Vina Mazumdar, academic, activist and one of the pioneers of women's studies in India, passed away on May 30. Renowned anthropologist Joan Mencher pays her a tribute. Vina Mazumdar (1927-2013)-"Vinadi" to colleagues and friends-a veteran fighter for Indian women's rights and pioneer of feminist studies, passed away in Delhi on May 30, 2013. She had been ailing since March of this year. I first met her in the...
More »The Neglect of Health, Women and Justice-AK Shiva Kumar
-Economic and Political Weekly A report on the 2013 deliberation of the Kolkata Group at its 10th workshop which focused on healthcare, the status of women and social justice in India. A K Shiva Kumar (akshivakumar@gmail.com) is convener of the Kolkata Group workshops which are organised by Pratichi (India) Trust, the Harvard Global Equity Initiative and UNICEF India. At the 10th annual Kolkata Group workshop in February this year, 40 policymakers, development practitioners,...
More »School for the blind achieves 100% results this year too -V Devanathan
-The Times of India MADURAI: While conventional schools strive hard to produce 100% pass in state board examination, a special school for visually impaired children in Sundararajanpatti has produced centum results quite convincingly. This is not first time it has achieved this feat. It has been doing so for the last 18 years. In the SSLC examination results announced on Friday, all the 23 visually impaired students who appeared for the examination...
More »Bastar: How democracy lost a generation -Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph Faraspal, Chhattisgarh: The Salwa Judum was a failure, both to its opponents and the man who was its face. "I shall repent the Salwa Judum's failure my entire life," Mahendra Karma had told a Dantewada journalist last year, months before being assassinated by the rebels last week. The 62-year-old tribal Congress leader wasn't referring to the extortion, murder and rape charges against the anti-Maoist militia - he considered them "collateral damage"...
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