Month October 2018
As the #MeToo movement entered its seventh day in India, women in the media continued to name and shame predatory behaviour in newsrooms. One of the most recent cases in which an organisation’s head was called out by a few… Continue Reading →
Mumbai Mirror | By Khalid Mohamed Sai Paranjpye, while discussing her autobiography, expresses solidarity with women outing sex predators. She’s in the throes of translating her best-selling autobiography Say: Maza Kalapravas from Marathi to English even as she shuttles between her Juhu… Continue Reading →
Dismisses Fake Complaints By Two Students TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hyderabad: Days after allegations of sexual harassment were levelled against an assistant professor by a group of students, the Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad on Sunday said it has suspended Srinivas Methuku,… Continue Reading →
BRINDA KARAT BJP President Amit Shah’s speech in Kerala using, typical of his style, the language of a school bully, should be seen as a direct assault on the Supreme Court of India. He said that courts should not give… Continue Reading →
Ayodhya hearing: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said an appropriate bench will fix a date and adjourned the hearing till January by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute will be taken up in the first week of… Continue Reading →
To The Leader of Opposition Maharashtra, Mumbai, 29 Oct 2018 Dear Sir, Greetings, I’m a Urdu novelist, Rahman Abbas, hereby desire to bring in your attention that the Depart of Urdu of Mumbai University has organized a poetry reading session… Continue Reading →
A N Roy Millions of homeless slum dwellers across India and certainly Mumbai lost their messiah when my friend, Magsaysay Awardee & Nobel Peace Prize nominee Padmashree Dr Jockin Arputham, passed away in a Mumbai hospital on October 13 of brain… Continue Reading →
While the nation is in the #MeToo movement’s grip, Dalit women are not speaking up against their oppressors. This is because all mainstream sectors have only paid lip service to their cause. Credit: Flickr/CC BY SA 2.0 Cynthia Stephen All… Continue Reading →
By Daily Excelsior Rajan Gandhi With the allegations of sexual harassment by actress Tanushree Dutta against her co-star Nana Patekar on the sets of movie in year 2008 it seems whole India is on a sexual rampage with daily new… Continue Reading →
We, the members of civil society and more than 40 rights organisations including women’s rights organisations, dalit rights organisations, adivasi mass organisations, legal aid and research organisations, environmental groups, trade unions, students etc., have come together to register our… Continue Reading →