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Breaking the bias: How India's daughters are recasting success in science and innovation

September 29, 2025 1:19 pm

History of Indian science demonstrates that when women are included, the country doesn’t just achieve equity, it achieves excellence

From Rocky Aur Rani to Aap Jaisa Koi: Bollywood, please stop stereotyping Bengali women

July 18, 2025 4:48 pm

With their kohl-lined eyes and gossamer saris, the trope of the ‘liberal’ Bengali woman — invariably from an upper-caste, privileged background — overshadows the real-life, ordinary women pioneers of Bengal

Women in judiciary: A mountain to climb

December 28, 2025 3:16 pm

Since its establishment in 1950, the Supreme Court has had only 11 women judges, while the situation is not better for High Courts and lower courts. But how does this imbalance affect gender justice?

Mahatma Gandhi’s visions for women’s rights issues

Gandhi Jayanti 2024: How did the great leader envision women empowerment

October 03, 2024 10:23 am

Mahatma Gandhi played a pivotal role in encouraging women to step out of their traditional domestic roles and participate in national struggles. But how did Gandhi's traditional ideals of ‘purity’ and ‘virtue’ shape his vision for women’s rights?

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

PM Modi has ended 'rule of law': Rahul slams BJP on Dalit woman's death in MP

May 28, 2024 2:59 pm

The woman, who had lodged a case last August claiming her brother, a Dalit, was beaten to death by some persons pressuring her for a compromise in a harassment case, died on Sunday after she fell from an ambulance carrying her uncle's body in Sagar.