12 March, 2010 by Sanjukta | Topics: Culture Today
He is NOT a nice guy, listen to the doctor

One of our friends, Dr. Anand Philip have written this great article on the serious medical consequences faced by a woman livin in an abusive relationship.
In his article he had first broken the myth of ‘he is otherwise a nice guy.’ In absolutely unambigous terms he emphasizes that any man who habitually abuses his partner [...]

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8 March, 2010 by Deepanjan | Topics: blog
Women’s Day for the Everyday Woman

She gets up earlier than everybody else in the house. It’s 5! I overslept again, she thinks. She wakes up the kids, gives them milk and makes tea for the others. Her morning is hectic to ensure that everybody else’s is perfect. Then, it’s running after the kids to hurry up — that school bus has [...]

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5 March, 2010 by admin | Topics: blog
CRIME: BEARING A GIRL CHILD, VERDICT: UNPARDONABLE OFFENSE.

Dr. Mitu Khurana refused to abort her twin daughters when she was falsely tricked into a sex determination test by Dr.Kamal Khurana, her husband and also a doctor himself. Mitu’s story of struggle began here. Her staunch refusal to abort her children led her husband to eventually throw her out of their house. At other [...]

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2 March, 2010 by Saurabh | Topics: Culture Today
The Unethical Deal

A friend asked this morning, “Do these things happen in present times also?”
Having lived so far in a well-cultured and open-minded family in a metropolitan, isolated background, he had no idea about what happens in a house the very next street to his. And having studied and then worked out of his home for [...]

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19 February, 2010 by Sanjukta | Topics: In the News
UP cop beat up dalit woman, we are mute spectators

A police officer in UP beat up a woman accused brought into the police station for interrogation puposes. He slapped her repeatedly on the face and snatched her veil, when she fell off he pulled her up by her hair. A lady police officer standing next to them, stood by, without moving a finger, without [...]

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15 February, 2010 by Ashish | Topics: Bell Bajao Videos, Rights Reporters
Sarita Rang the Bell, did you?

Sarita took the Breakthrough training in Nov’09. Before the training she had never heard of domestic violence or gender issue. She knew that women get beaten up but didn’t know how to articulate that as a rights violation and didn’t know what to do about it. After the training she felt empowered.
One of the direct [...]

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9 February, 2010 by admin | Topics: Bell Bajao Videos, In the News
Bell Bajao goes to Pakistan

The impact of the Bell Bajao campaign is surely larger than we thought.
The three TV spots created by Ogilvy & Mather featuring campaign ambassador popular actor Boman Irani  has not only reached 132 million people through television, radio and press in India they have also had unprecedented impact across the Globe.
Inspired by our videos artists [...]

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4 February, 2010 by Sanjukta | Topics: In the News, Legal Take
Pre marital sex – Delhi high court calls it rape

I don’t how true this news item is considering the levels to which media is ready to stoop in order to create sensation but if even half of this is true then I don’t know what to say. Where are we heading? Are we going forward or are we going backward by leaps and bounds.
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29 January, 2010 by Piali | Topics: In the News, blog
Sexual Violence – forced pregnancy

The other day I was lazing in the sun with my copy of Times of India and a big cup of tea. I was casually turning the pages and just reading the head lines of the main paper. By the time I reached page no. 20, I was yawning and wanted to close my eyes. [...]

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