Safe Cooking, Better Health: The Ujjwala Yojana and Its Role in Women’s Well Being
In developing countries like India clean and safe cooking especially in the rural parts of the country is a top priority of the government. Unsafe...
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Menstrual Leaves Should No Longer Be Up for Debate
The Karnataka government’s proposal to allocate 6 days of menstrual leave per year for women in the public and private sector will reopen debate and...
Public Outrage On Kolkata Doctor’s Death Case
Rape and murder, considered brutal crimes, almost always evoke huge public outrage. Such is the recent case of a man, named Sanjay Roy, who is...
Steering the ‘Menstrual Leave Policy’ Debate in a Legal Direction
The long-standing debate regarding menstrual leave policy (hereinafter referred to as ‘the policy’) has erupted once again since the Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking...
My First Cup
These days it has become my intention to talk to each and every woman I come across in my life about the powerful value that...
Medical Termination Of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021: Progressive But Restrictive
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021 has become operative from the 24th of September 2021. The amendment alters the parent legislation i.e., Medical...
Menstrual Hygiene and Mother Nature
One in every three girls around the world do not have access to proper sanitation facilities. The data speaks a lot about the discrimination faced...
Karnataka Minister K. Sudhakar says – “Modern women want to stay single and childless, it’s not good”
At a World Mental Health Day event at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS), Karnataka’s Health & Family Welfare Minister K. Sudhakar...
Abortion Law in India: Not Quite There Yet
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was approved by the upper house of the parliament and received presidential assent in March, 2021. Some...
सफाई करने वाली महिलाओं की स्थिति
एक अध्ययन के मुताबिक कूड़ा बीनने वालों में 80 फीसदी संख्या महिलाओं की है और ये सब महिलाएं दलित समुदाय से सम्बन्ध रखती है, जैसे...
Status of Frozen Embryos in In-Vitro Fertilization
"Assisted Reproductive Technology" or ART with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means all techniques that attempt to obtain a pregnancy by handling the sperm...
Nivedha R.M – Recycling Waste Into Wealth
By Srinivas Rayappa “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use” – Mother Teresa Bengaluru,...