There's more than one place in India where the punishment can be gang rape. Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads.
SUBALPUR, India — Villagers here are used to being ignored. By authorities. By everyone. “The last time I saw a policeman was six months ago for the elections,” said a villager named Tunu Mandi. And before that? These days, police outnumber villagers. Narrow focus on New Delhi incident misses scope of India's rape crisis. After Being Raped, I Was Wounded - My Honor Wasn’t. What one 23-year-old taught us. She was 23.
She came from Ballia from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Anti-rape protests spread across India. Nip, Tuck & RAIPUR. Nip,Tuck & RAIPUR There is a bizarre boom in plastic surgery in small-town India.
NISHITA JHA reports on the frantic search for beauty. Photographs by GARIMA JAIN IN MAY 2008, we missed a wake up call. For those who were snoozing, this was when Sony Television aired 10 episodes of a reality series called Naya Roop, Nayi Zindagi, based on the American show Extreme Makeovers. Sharma’s mother and sisters appear in turns, talking about how hard it is for Prasanta, a 26-year-old postgraduate in sociology, to find a husband. The show came as a shock because it told us smalltown India had ambitions beyond just becoming Indian idols and dancing superstars.
Here are the incredible facts: The latest report (2010) by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) places India at No. 4 on the list of plastic surgery hubs in the world. WELCOME TO Raipur. Unintended consequences: India's rape crisis. Kavita Krishnan,Secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA) Rape and the crisis of Indian masculinity.
After Toronto, Montreal SlutWalk comes to Delhi. Slut Walk Is Besharmi Morcha in India. This post is part of our special coverage Global Development 2011 and SlutWalks 2011.
Slut Walk, a fresh feminist movement that originated from Toronto Canada in April this year, and had been taking rounds of various western cities like, London, Melbourne, Brisbane, Montreal, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Hamilton, San Diego and Vancouver and few others, is now coming to New Delhi, the Indian capital. Scheduled for late July Delhi will be the first Asian city to hold a slut walk. In India this has been a season of protests and campaigns with two colossal figures, spiritual leader Baba Ramdev and Gandhian Anna Hazare both going onto fasting persuading the Government of India to take actions against corruption and other such rots in the system.
Hundreds protest in Canada against a Toronto Police Officer who claimed "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized. " Image by Natalie A., copyright Demotix (03/04/11). Vidyut at Aam Janata has been writing consistently on the topic. Besharmi Morcha 2011. The What And The Why. Uttar Pradesh. Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads.
MUMBAI, India — A poor girl in northern India is a member of the lowest caste. She winds up in jail after fleeing her alleged rapists. These alleged rapists are powerful men. What are the odds the story gets better from here? North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh shames nation with five rape cases in 48 hours : North: India Today. Inside India's 'red corridor' - Al Jazeera Correspondent. By Imran Garda (with thanks to Nandena Saxena, Kamal Kumar, Kavita Bahl and Yasir Khan) The eye of the world has been focused on India's meteoric rise as a future superpower - the billion people, the Bollywood blockbusters, the inimitable IPL cricket - but, as with everything, India has its more troublesome aspects.
We have some knowledge of the conflicts on the borders - the almost intractable tension over Kashmir and a nuclear standoff with Pakistan in an epic neighbourly story. Daughters of the brothel - Witness - Al Jazeera English - Filmmaker Gautam Singh explains how he came to make Daughters of the brothel.
India's handwritten magazines have long fascinated me. But while researching the subject for a blog, I came across one in particular that stood out. Jugnu is a 32-page monthly magazine that has been written and published by the sex workers of the Chaturbhuj-sthan brothel in Bihar, near the border with Nepal, for the past 10 years. Home to about 10,000 women and children, the whole area - named after the Chaturbhuj-sthan temple, which is located inside - is essentially one large brothel. Historians believe it was first established during the Moghul era. Intrigued, I contacted the magazine and as more details emerged about this extraordinary publication and the women behind it, I realised that this story was much bigger than a blog.
The magazine had been set up by a group of sex workers led by one girl - Naseema. International Women's Day 2011. Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads.
A study released ahead of International Women's Day 2011 finds that Indian men exhibit the highest rate of sexual violence of the nationalities included, the Times of India reports. The survey, by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), found that nearly one in four Indian men have committed an act of sexual violence at least once in their life and one in five have forced their wife or partner to have sex.
Two percent of men in Brazil and nine percent of men in Chile, Croatia, Mexico and Rwanda have committed an act of violence against women. The three-year study looks at gender attitudes among men and boys in six developing countries. It is based on interviews with more than 8,000 men and 3,500 women. “This is the first survey of its size to offer a comprehensive picture of what men think and do,” Gary Barker, who directs ICRW’s programs that involve men and boys, said in a press release.