Denial of rights to women is against sharia law: MJ Akbar: New Delhi: Denial of gender rights is against the sharia law and no state can be modern without gender freedom, Union Minister MJ Akbar said on Thursday. “You cannot deny gender equality to any being. Denial of gender rights is against the sharia. Anyone who…
How Do You Imagine A Feminist Internet?: In August 2016, APC along with some activists and feminists which also included Feminism in India revised and released the 17 Feminist Principles of the Internet. Often I have been asked “Why do we need Feminist Principles to run the Internet when women and queer individuals already have…
In the recent times, there has been an increase in violence against women in India. In a country where women are worshipped as Goddesses, hundreds and thousands of women are being ill-treated every day. Violence against women and children is being manifested in various forms – physical, economic, sexual and psychological – cutting across culture…
HYDERABAD: Vijay Mogli was dragged out of the hostel of Hyderabad Public School on wintry nights, stripped nude, made to do frog jumps or imitate Mehmood’s and Johnny Lever’s fake Tamizh accents. Sometimes he resisted – when pencils, erasers and chalk pieces were pushed up his posterior – only to be footballed and kicked. Amidst…
Egyptian-American Mona Eltahawy, an award-winning journalist and a vocal speaker on women’s rights believes that all religions are used by men to control women. Mona gets candid in an interview to Ashok Kumar of OneWorld South Asia at the latest edition of Jaipur Literature Festival. OneWorld South Asia: What makes you angry about the state-of-women…