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A Tribute to Comrade Ranjana Nirula

Submitted by sharbani on Sat, 05/22/2021 - 15:47
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Ranjana changed the course of her life through her commitment to the ideas of Marxism, by being inspired by the ideas of socialism, and her dreams of living up to the ideals of communism. 

Driven by notions of purity and impurity

Submitted by sharbani on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 14:15
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While heated debates and discussions were expected after the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala judgment, what is unusual is the kind of public intervention made by Union Minister Smriti Irani in her widely reported speech in Mumbai. Quite apart from the crudity of the statement, which is objectionable enough, Ms. Irani advised women to accept that menstrual blood is impure and that a menstruating woman desecrates a place of worship.

From Rajasthan To "Mersal", A Bad Week For Democracy In India

Submitted by sharbani on Tue, 10/24/2017 - 12:15
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In the village of Karimati in Jharkhand, Koili Devi, the mother of 11-year-old Santosh Kumari, who had died of starvation, had to flee her home as she was attacked by local goondas reportedly because she had challenged the official version that her child had died of malaria not hunger, and dared to publicly say that in fact her child had died because the government had passed orders that no one without an Aadhar card would get rations. She spoke the truth, and for that she was attacked. The local auxiliary nurse confirmed that the child was not suffering from malaria.

Gauri Lankesh Could Not Be Jailed. But She Could Be Killed

Submitted by sharbani on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 12:21
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The cowardly, brutal killing of Gauri Lankesh has led to waves of spontaneous protests in different corners of India. Gauri was a voice of honesty and courage, she challenged the status quo in multiple ways as a single woman, as the editor of a weekly, as an anti-establishment voice, as the proud promoter and practitioner of Kannadiga language and cultures, as a  vociferous opponent of Hindutva ideologies.

When Rape Becomes A Weapon Against Tribal Women

Submitted by mainuser on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 14:14
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The National Human Rights Commission is to be congratulated for taking the first step, even though much delayed, to bring justice to tribal women in the Bastar region of Chattisgarh. Its interim report confirms, through its independent investigation carried out in March 2016, the horrific gang-rapes, rapes, sexual assault and separately, physical assault, by security forces on 16 tribal women in different incidents in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.

GENDER CONCERNS AND STRATEGIES IN THE RESISTANCE TO IMPERIALIST GLOBALISATION

23 Dec 2013
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It is well known and documented across the globe that working class women and women of the working poor in rural areas have been the worst victims of neo-liberal policies and imperialist globalisation. It is not as though working men have gained at the expense of women. Debates on the feminisation of poverty must be situated within the reality of the main feature of globalisation, namely increasing inequalities, between the rich and the poor between and within nations.

Everyone forgets the surrogate

Submitted by mainuser on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 14:17
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Sushma Pandey,just 17 years old,reportedly died due to procedures related to egg harvesting conducted on her by a fertility clinic in Mumbai. Two years after her death,the Bombay high court did well to criticise the police for not prosecuting the hospital for its flagrant violation of the age requirement for women donors set out by the rules of the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Fighting For A Basic Human Right: A Life Free From Hunger

Submitted by sharbani on Sun, 12/29/2002 - 15:50
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THOUSANDS of women all over India observed December 10, the World Human Rights Day, to assert the basic human right for a life free from hunger.
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