New Delhi — Three hundred years after the hysteria in Salem, in some places witch hunts are still terrifyingly real. Last week, a mob of 200 people in the Indian state of Assam dragged a 65-year-old woman out of her house, stripped her and beheaded her with a machete. They didContinue Reading
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Guwahati — On a sunny Saturday morning on a busy street of Guwahati suddenly a man appears taking guitar in his hand; singing the song of humanity, he appeals the people to stand against terrorism and violence but not against any religion or community. Kishour Giri, a musician of theContinue Reading
Jagdalpur: Sister Julie Mathew shudders as she recalls her brush with death on a cold winter night nine years ago. Stationed at a school for tribal girls in the remote central Indian village of Gangaloor, Sister Julie and her charges were roused from their sleep around 2 a.m. A mobContinue Reading
Rajsamand: Holding placards and raising slogans, some 1,300 schoolgirls marched through the streets of their villages, protesting the lack of teachers in their schools in Rajasthan. “We want to study, but there is no one to teach,” they sang in a chorus as they walked through three villages in Rajasthan’sContinue Reading
Bachelors in Haryana are paying the price for female foeticide, which has depleted the state’s sex ratio beyond imagination. The shortage of brides was a major election issue during the Assembly and Lok Sabha in Haryana. Politicians had even created a major controversy by saying that they will arrange bridesContinue Reading
Mumbai: Sunil Yadav does not believe in heaven and hell. But he knows what hell feels like “Narak” is the word he uses to describe what it was like the first time he waded through open sewers with floating garbage and dead rats when, at 25, he took over hisContinue Reading
Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilisations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channelled towards providing alternative forms of contraception. Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI), saidContinue Reading
New Delhi — It seems being forced to keep mum despite being sexually assaulted has turned into a bitter reality for many inmates in Tihar Jail. Authorities at Tihar, the largest prison complex in South Asia, have been reluctant to lodge cases of same-sex rapes by jail inmates. In fact,Continue Reading
