At the last day of college, a party was planned. It was a moment of pious hopes coupled with dilemmas. The joy of successful graduation was accompanied with queries of what next! As I stood in front of the mirror I realized…
PART 1:- My life was/is a Bliss... Life is long and I had seen a lot but cannot write down each and every incidence in this article. Thus, trying to make an account of some events in my life and comparing them with the life…
Suzette Jordan (1974 – 13 March 2015) was a prominent women's-rights activist and anti-rape campaigner from Kolkata, India. She herself was a survivor of a gang rape in Park Street, Kolkata. Referred to in the media only as…
"Finding the right shade of lipstick is harder than finding concentrated acid". ACID ATTACK, INJURY THAT NEVER HEALS. If burning is your culture, from Ashes we Rise Let scars be your gift, and can you burn a SMILE? BEAUTY…
A large number of women and teenage girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also sexual harassment and assault by men. The widespread lack of access to…
A large number of women and teenage girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also sexual harassment and assault by men. The widespread lack of access to…
The Mahila Jagat Lihaaz Samiti (Majlis) or Society for Respect for Women and the Earth, a collective of Dalit and Adivasi women organising action for the rights of women and environmental conservation, has initiated a…
As the world is running towards development, our society is also facing a lot of new things that it never saw before. With education and employment reaching to almost every household the time meant for spending with families…
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”– Virginia Woolf Ah! Rings so true….Our family has a crazy but a rather sincere love affair with food.It probably is the only common thing that brings…
An opportunity that I took being separated myself from the team on tour to Madhobpur lake, Lawyachhara and BDR Camp for having seven layer tea. All these places are considered as tourist spots and located in Srimangal…
Check your FOODMILES and WATER FOOTPRINTS when you feed your family at home. Elsie Gabriel Mentor Climate Reality/Founder Young Environmentalists NGO. Iam Elsie Gabriel from Mumbai India,I usually make vegetables at home…
While on the way we come across a lot of things all around us happening every moment. Like many of you I am fortunate enough to tour to many a places-villages, towns, semi-towns, hills, rivers, country sides etc. And in all…
Our cultural beliefs & rituals give a great prominence tofood. Adamate an apple and look, it created the human race. LordRamahadSabri’s berand niti & nyaya were established.Krishnatoo ateSudama’shandful of rice and a…
When I was 12, I watched the Fiddler on the Roof for the first time. A song in the film caught my fancy: “ Tradition !” it was called. To the uninitiated, the song was a take on how life was governed by these unwritten rules…
Zahida Bano, 62, lives with her ailing husband in a far off village in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir. After mechanically going through the day's chores she sits at the window sill of her small home in the mountains…
Three kilometres from the main town of Budgam lies a mountainous village situated right in the middle of apple orchids, waterfalls and paddy fields. It's green everywhere and a teeny tiny mud road leads the way into the…
Responsibilities The Gender Research Consultant will design a MIAD GDA Level 1 research study to conduct a desk review of existing AKF gender program and policy documents in order to: Understand how gender is integrated into…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking proposals from NGO/CSO for the implementation of HIV prevention of service deliveries and policy advocacy for transgender people/hijra in Karachi, Pakistan under…
Banners reading ‘Tobacco free zone’, greets everyone near city’s reputed colleges and schools, but girls from the same colleges are among the regular users of these substance claims a recent study. http://www.hervoice.co/…
In one of India’s most disadvantaged and isolated districts, Radio Mewat is sharing information and raising awareness to help women stand up for their rights against ingrained patriarchal traditions. Aliya Bashir MEWAT,…
earing a khaki salwar kameez, and holding her five-month daughter in her arms, Jamsheda waits for her turn in the dispensary at Gool, she looks pale and flushed out, maybe because she come by foot covering 13 kilometers to…
Kashmir is reelingunder continuous curfews, restrictions, so are the schools, but some young girls are coming forward to help the students. http://www.kashmirtimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=59355
When Hollywood teams up with big names, and ventures into making a film on sports genre, the expectations are pretty much met by default. We have all enjoyed “Cool Runnings”, “Million Dollar Arm”, where an unassuming…
South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF) is inviting all women’s rights activists and artists in Asia to submit visual designs which reflect the work of a women’s fund in Asia. SAWF’s intervention strategy underscores the following…