A concept note on 'India: Mother of Democracy' entirely erases the actual spirit and principles of the Indian constitution. Instead, it audaciously pushes an openly Hindu supremacist narrative.

The grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawalla in the national capital has generated a lot of pain and anger. Here's what can be done to prevent such murders in the future.

Women are people with an inalienable right to live the fullest of lives. Everything that prevents their life from being lived to the fullest extent of freedom, is a form of violence.

Courts, if they are to do their duty, must order a countrywide probe into the violent Hindu supremacist outfits that terrorise interfaith couples, and their enablers embedded in the police and administration.

The court order arbitrarily deprives students as a class the fundamental right to hold peaceful forms of protest.

Journalists disturbed by Gauri Lankesh’s killing must introspect on the nature and character of the news media today, and publicly and collectively condemn the rabble-rousers and instigators.

Courts are the only institutions left where India's women ought to be able to expect their freedom to be respected, but now court orders too seem to be legitimising the widespread violence against women.

Nitish has always been careful to ensure that his amenable secular conscience does not come at the cost of his government.

A rape survivor deserves justice no matter who the accused is – something the media and the ruling party seem to conveniently ignore.

The student was found dead the morning after her mother had been refused permission to take her home

Mohammed Shahabuddin is a classic example of the unsavoury marriage between politics and crime

While Sex Offenders Registries in the US or UK are aimed primarily at protecting children from sexual predators, in India the move seems motivated in large part by the wish to erode child protection and juvenile justice laws.

The paternalism inherent in Indian society prevails even over seemingly “progressive” campaigns to promote the girl child

Just as violation of the environment and the rights of tribal people is not an ‘internal family matter’ that should be kept away from international forums, the violation of women’s rights cannot be an ‘internal family matter’ for the organisation.