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A mall, a lady, and some slut-shaming – another sad day in India’s ‘rape capital’
Women don’t always look out for their own, especially when a word like rape can be thrown around with such impunity
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The year that #Metoo was reborn, and with it the sisterhood of victims
No one can deny that it has given a voice to those who perhaps had no other way of taking on the rich and the famous.
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When Tanushree Dutta said #MeToo but Bollywood didn't care, because that stuff is only for movies
Even the far-fetched movies portray a victim who gets justice in the end, but always only in movies, not the industry.
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“Girls expose their bodies only when they don’t have beautiful faces”
She may as well have told them it was their bad luck they were born female. Will she also blame the eight-month-old?
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Schools in India have become less about education and more about survival
When we have bus conductors slitting throats of 7-year-old students in schools, you know the system has eroded.
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Banning triple talaq is one small step for India but one giant leap for Muslim women
Ishrat Jahan was divorced over the phone from Dubai. For women like her, this was a fight for respect and equality.
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In India, women’s safety is a promise no one can keep
One girl is pregnant after being raped by her stepfather while another was gang-raped and left for dogs to nibble on.
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Virat Kohli gifting Shahid Afridi a jersey proves that cricket transcends boundaries
This, after all, was the same Shahid Afridi who had once accused Indian fans of not being big-hearted.
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Are Pakistani dramas losing the plot?
Why does every second drama have a cancer patient or a storyline where nothing moves until someone has died?
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Chaiwala pe charcha in India
This boy has an old world Hollywood charm to him, but hopefully it wasn’t just trick photography.