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Teachers arrested for allegedly strip searching girl student in West Bengal

Press Trust of India | Updated: August 04, 2012 21:01 IST Suri, West Bengal: Two women teachers were arrested today for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in… Continue Reading →

In the name of Bharatiya Sanskar

  RASHEEDA BHAGAT   …and stop lecturing women on all the wrong things. Can we, as a mature country, stop pointing an accusing finger at women all the time? How come nobody is giving homilies to men that it is… Continue Reading →

The media’s handling of #sexworkers and marginalised has been patently insensitive

Festival with a difference NUPUR BASU reports on the deliberations of a congregation from 42 countries in Kolkata. Posted/Updated Tuesday, Jul 31 , The hoot.org Meena (name changed) came from a middle-class family in Baroda. Like millions of girls in our country,… Continue Reading →

Short skirts cause women harassment– Bengali actor and TMC MLA #Moralpolicing #VAW

  KOLKATA  July 29, 2012 Bengali Actor and Trinamool Congress legislator Chiranjeet Chakraborty waded into controversy on Saturday, correlating a woman’s dress with eve teasing. He also sought to downplay an incident of harassment of a girl in his constituency… Continue Reading →

Body of Mentally ill woman dug up at home for disabled funded by WB govt

Kolkata : In yet another shocking case that puts a serious question mark on the state of our society, reports claimed on Friday that mentally ill women lodged at a rehabilitation centre in West Bengal were subjected to sexual abuse…. Continue Reading →

Sunil Janah- Portraitist of the Nehruvian era passes away R.I.P

Ram Rahman,  The Hindu  , jUNE 23, 2012 The Hindu Sunil Janah, at his exhibition in New York in 1998. Photo: Ram Rahman Sunil Janah, the photographer whose searing coverage of the Bengal Famine and vivid political portraiture of the… Continue Reading →

Update June 20 : Police attack and arrest demonstrators-State crushing a democratic movement

Massive Lathicharge on Nonadanga protesters: Another example of state’s effort to crush a democratic movement A Report by Nilanjan Dutta The day before, police said they would not permit any rally at Esplanade by the evicted people from Nonadanga. On… Continue Reading →

Resist the silent emergency! Call for Action on June 26th 2012

Dear friends, On June 26,1975, Emergency was declared in India, robbing citizens of their basic democratic rights and ushering in a dark period of rampant human rights violations all over the country. Arrests of Indian citizens without charge or notification… Continue Reading →

Kolkata Park Street rape witness “thrashed” and ‘molested’

Jun 12, 2012 – RAJIB CHOWDHURI| Age Correspondent A former BPO professional, who is said to be a key witness in the Park Street gangrape case, was allegedly molested at a night club in New Market. On Sunday night, the… Continue Reading →

Solidarity statement from Bangalore with anti-eviction basti struggles in Mumbai and Kolkata

June 11, 2012 Dayanandnagar slum residents group , in s Bangalore send their solidarity  supportwith the basti dwellers fighting eviction in slums of Mumbai and Kolkata after seeing pictures and films of their struggles. We also know such struggles are… Continue Reading →

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