Scarred for Life
Above: Actress Diya Mirza with acid attack victim Laxmi at a youth conclave in Lucknow. Photo: UNI
Despite the fact that acid attacks are common...
Kerala’s Conversions: Struck by “Love Jihad”?
Above: Hadiya said she converted willingly but past cases raise questions of national security
As more and more cases emerge from God’s Own Country of...
Transgender Bill: A Marginal Approach
The recommendations of a parliamentary panel looking into the rights of this community may be put on the back-burner, setting back any progress made...
The Great Gambler
Above: People playing cards at a get-together. Photo: Bhavana Gaur
The recent hullabaloo over a den of vice in a South Delhi farmhouse has shown...
Blue Whale Psychoanalysis: Save Our Children!
Above: Youngsters hooked to smartphones. Photo: Bhavana Gaur
The dangers posed by this game have revealed the fragile and vulnerable state of children and why...
Online Games: Killer Blue Whale
If India has to meet the challenge posed by this danger, it will need to amend the Information Technology Act, 2000 and service providers...
Maid in India
Above: Domestic workers demand a separate central legislation during a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi in 2014 to ensure that their work gets...
Draft manual on juvenile homes: A cut and paste job
The Women and Child Development Ministry has recently framed draft guidelines for juvenile shelters. However, these do little justice to key issues and merely...
Fairness creams: Unfair and Unlovely
Abhay Deol’s roast of Bollywood stars endorsing so-called fairness creams gives a new twist to an old controversy
~By Rakesh Bhatnagar
The debate over skin colour...
Down in the Dumps!
Can the government make it mandatory for hotels and restaurants to give access to the general public to their toilets based on Article 15(2)...
