Sneha Banerjee

Sneha Banerjee is an assistant professor, Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad

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Girls strip searched in Thane school to check period. This is not the way you teach them hygieneSubscriber Only

July 11,2025 15:22:39 PM

That is a lesson to be taught using reason and compassion, trusting them as responsible agents and extending care as they navigate puberty and adolescence

Fri, Jul 11, 2025

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Why Supreme Court must look into compensation for surrogatesSubscriber Only

September 17,2024 07:29:21 AM

While the legislative intervention has set these important issues aside, it remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court views the question of fairness in compensation as distinct from the narrow logic behind prohibition

Tue, Sep 17, 2024

Best of both sides: On menstrual leaves, the question is not ‘if’, it is ‘how’Subscriber Only

July 19,2024 07:50:56 AM

There is growing acknowledgement of menstruation as an important area of policy intervention. Accommodations in the public, beginning with educational institutions and workplaces, need to be initiated

Fri, Jul 19, 2024

Behind Supreme Court’s remarks on sanctity of marriage, a growing social anxietySubscriber Only

May 16,2024 19:13:09 PM

Young people are thinking critically and even strategically about the institution of marriage. But their thinking is opening up possibilities that seem to be at odds with the so-called traditional values

Thu, May 16, 2024

The growing acceptance of surrogacy as a mode of family-making with the use of ARTs is sought to be codified in the law to bolster the legitimate status of surrogacy as a “new” mode of reproduction.

On surrogacy, Indian law goes a step further — but not far enoughSubscriber Only

February 29,2024 07:06:01 AM

Amendment to surrogacy rules is welcome. But legislation must be carefully crafted so as to not create hierarchies in contemporary family formations

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

It presents an opening of some kind of institutionalisation via the registration of live-in relationships.

For Uttarakhand’s live-in couples, the State could become an unwelcome third wheelSubscriber Only

February 08,2024 07:52:13 AM

Provisions on live-in relationships open the floodgates of moral policing and severe intrusions on the privacy of citizens, especially for inter-faith and inter-caste couples

Thu, Feb 08, 2024

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Denied abortion of 27-week-foetus: In India, reproductive autonomy remains a pipedreamSubscriber Only

October 19,2023 07:27:57 AM

Despite avowed goals of ‘empowerment’, is it a foregone conclusion that women are not to stake claims on their own bodies, on their own terms?

Thu, Oct 19, 2023