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Apalling and Shocking -West Bengal: Disabled teenage patient raped in hospital by medical staff

Feb, 29, Kolkata: A hearing impaired patient has been allegedly raped by an employee inside the Bankura Medical College in West Bengal. A complaint has been lodged in the case. The victim’s clothes and bed sheets have been sent for… Continue Reading →

Human Rights Groups Blur Issues of Women Rights

By Meredith Tax (WOMENSENEWS)– Salafi mobs have caned women in Tunisian cafes and Egyptian shops; attacked churches in Egypt; taken over whole villages in Tunisia and shut down that country’s Manouba University for two months in an effort to exert… Continue Reading →

Open letter to Participants of Vedanta’s Creating Happiness

Dear  Film-makers I request you to have a look at my two open letters to Shyam benegal and Piyush Pandey on the creating happiness competition available here https://kractivist.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/open-letter-to-piyush-pandey-on-vedantas-creating-happiness/ https://kractivist.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/open-letter-to-shyam-benegal-on-vedantas-creating-happiness/ After  Reading  my open letter , Mr  Shyam  Benegal, who was… Continue Reading →

Married Women in Maharashtra can keep maiden name need not take husbands’ surname

MUMBAI: Women in Maharashtra have another reason to celebrate as International Women’s Day approaches. It is now perfectly legal for a woman to retain her maiden name after marriage. The Bombay high court recently amended a crucial rule under the… Continue Reading →

Amnesty action for Indian activists- Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi

Hoevelaken – The annual action by Amnesty International this year focused on the release of political prisoners in India. Soni Sodi (female) and Linga ram Kodopi (male), two indigenous activists from the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Maoist rebels who are… Continue Reading →

Rapist agrees to marry victim, seeks FIR quashing.

NEW DELHI: After spending a year in jail on charges of rape, a man has approached the Delhi high court seeking quashing of the FIR against him on the ground that he and the victim have decided to get married…. Continue Reading →

Open Letter to Navin Jindal

Dear Mr Jindal, I just finished watching a few videos showing security forces mercilessly beating villagers in Orissa, along with some heartrending pictures of the attack. One of the pictures was of a year and a half old child with… Continue Reading →

In Mumbai, buy a baby boy in seven days for 2 lakhs

  Feb 20, 2012 –Mumbai: In an explosive sting operation that lasted for about a week, MiD DAY blows the lid off a thriving baby-selling racket in the city, in which infants are sold like commodities for Rs. 2-3 lakh…. Continue Reading →

Mamta and Madan Mitra’s Medieval Moralising

Kolkata police find holes in rape case; Mamata says cooked up By: IANS Date: 2012-02-17 Place: Kolkata As the Kolkata police said there were “certain technical discrepancies” in the rape complaint filed by an Anglo-Indian woman, a state minister questioned… Continue Reading →

Listen Up, Guys: If The Catholic Bishops Win, It’s The End of Sex As You Know It

One of the most stunning things about this whole contraception farce is the number of men who are still sitting this out, on the assumption that this is just another “women’s issue.” They don’t think they’ve got a dog in… Continue Reading →

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