In a society like ours, is it necessary to rush through with the “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” clause without examining its impact on the vast majority of poor women? Divorce is still relatively uncommon in India compared to many other countries. The incidence of divorce is barely 1.9 per cent of registered marriages. »

Women are visible as spectators in most big sporting events but face great hurdles in their attempts to excel in sports. »

From Kashmir to Manipur, in the troubled conflict zones of our country, it is the women and children who pay the price, often a heavy one… »

They forage the city, collecting and sorting often hazardous waste when the city sleeps and by day they are gone. Most of them are women and we have no long-term policy in place that looks at their welfare or health… »

The sentence in the Ruchika Girhotra case is a small step in rectifying an anomaly in the law. The draft Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2010 now seeks to tighten laws dealing with sexual assault… »

Asserting one's independence in something as vital as marriage in many parts of India can end in death. That's the price of modernity. How can we still call ourselves a civilised society? »

The Sunanda episode leaves us with some hard questions, about the attitude of the media to women, about sexism and other hurdles that women face everyday at the workplace... »

What women need is basic healthcare. Not costly medical experiments involving vulnerable sections who don't know what they are getting into… »

Many have expressed their opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill. Only Mulayam Singh Yadav has been honest enough to say what he really thinks… »

Why is it that the burden of name change is laid on the shoulders of women alone, when they get married or divorced? »