By Himanshi Nagpal Rape is one of the most common and under reported crimes against women in India. It is carried out in different ways and cuts across various social structures. As a result, there are also classifications of rape for instance, ‘landlord rape’, ‘caste rape’, ‘rape by those in authority’, ‘class rape’, ‘police rape’ […]
Rape of Draupadi: Why Indian democracy has failed women
Indians pray to goddesses in temples, but “abuse women in the domestic sphere”, notes author. Horrific crimes are not new to India. The capital of the largest democracy in the world, New Delhi, has been conquered many times over by successive waves of invaders – their paradigms of conquest were always different. On August 15, […]
Uplifting ode to girlhood and Assam in Village Rockstars at the Habitat Film Festival
by SONAL PANDYA The gorgeous second feature by Rima Das is a moving tale of a little family trying to get by, in the beautiful village of Chahaygaon, Assam. A young village girl Dhunu wants a guitar more than anything else in the world. She fashions one out of Styrofoam and shiny paper, but it’s nothing […]
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