In Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, a woman is forbidden to venture out alone in the streets by herself, unless accompanied by a man who is either her husband or a family relative. Or so I’ve read in the accounts of authors like Carmen Bin Laden & Marjane Satrapi, making the grass [...]

“Old habits never die.” Rahul Mahajan, was married to Shweta Singh after knowing her for 13 years. Shweta stood as a pillar of support during those days when Rahul Mahajan lost his father and was facing a court case. They got engaged in July 2006 and divorced on August 1st 2008. Reason domestic violence and [...]

Sarla ji is a community worker in Neelmatha Lucknow. She is working on different social issues with women and youths in her community. She says that many women experience domestic violence as part of their daily lives, and often do not recognize it as such. It is about power and control and not always about physical violence [...]

I looked up. I could barely see him in the dark, yet I tried to find my way up. My left eye had gone blind; I could feel the blood trickling down the forehead. I looked up again; his shadow loomed over me as he stood there on the landing above. I had fallen down [...]

Being a girl in it self is the biggest challenge a human being can face. When in womb she has less than 50% chances to see the light of day. She is on the mercy of her bearer. Outside the womb the cruel members of the family who have given birth to her just to [...]

Neha is one of our Rights Advocate; she has passed out her intermediate going to do B.A. She had taken a part of our Bell bajao video van. She is spreading messages about the “bell bajao” into her community, among her friends, family and relatives. As per her “now we should try to understand exactly domestic [...]

For her, discrimination has many faces. As a minority tribal, she has been at the receiving end of strong and violent anti-tribal tirades in her home state Manipur. As a community member, she has been denied of several rights by the government and as a woman from a poor family, she has been denied jobs [...]

To be young and in love has proved fatal for many young girls and boys in parts of north India as an intolerant and bigoted society refuses to accept any violation of its rigid code of decorum, especially when it comes to women. For those who aren’t aware, an ‘honour killing’ is carried out when [...]

Tiwari ji is working in a Government organization. He is residing in Bakshi ka talab which is 20 Km from Lucknow city. He has watched the Bell Bajao PSA on TV. Initially the message of the PSA was not very clear to him. But his son helped him to understand that one should raise voice [...]