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Voices: Nepal, are you still my home?
Nepal has been occupying the news headlines for the last few months, either due to the devastating earthquake that killed…
By Shubha Kayastha
September 1, 2015
Why the Absence of Safe Abortion in the Post-2015 SDGs Matters
The eight UN Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) have been rightly criticised because they were too narrow, failed to address the…
By Kristin Francoeur
September 1, 2015
The Millennium Development Goals: An Overview of the Success So Far
[slideshow_deploy id=’6698′] The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have not always been easy to understand. In this set of posters the…
By Curated Content
September 1, 2015
Nothing for us without us: Young People and Development
There are many mechanism, agendas and processes such as the post-2015 mechanism in development to ensure gender equality and ‘to…
By Sarah Soysa
September 1, 2015
The Editorial: Let’s Talk Sexuality
“There is no sexuality without knowledge.” -Slavoj Žižek, Agitating the Frame Philospher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek writes and talks…
By TARSHI
August 15, 2015
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might Have the Wish, I Wish Tonight
While we were researching women’s access to public space in Mumbai under the aegis of the Gender and Space Project,…
By Shilpa Phadke
August 15, 2015
“DON’T LET YOUR FOOT SLIP!” : MESSAGES ON ‘APPROPRIATE’ FEMININITY BY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MUMBAI
“In Hindi, though there is a word for rape (balaatkaar), it is rarely used by women. Instead they say izzat…
By Juhi Sidharth
August 15, 2015
Bandar Aur Insaan Reloaded
Last year, I received a research fellowship from the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)…
By Surabhi Shukla
August 15, 2015
Brushstrokes: Word’s Worth
[slideshow_deploy id=’6411′] In a culture where sex is depicted all over media messaging, it’s funny how the word itself is…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2015
“IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ASK ME?
A lot of research concludes that globally, young people aren’t learning enough about sexuality, and that they would like to…
By Padmini Iyer
August 15, 2015
Open Letter to Parents-Who-Are-Katti-With-The-Daughter-Mumbai-Police-Illegally-Harassed
Dear Parents-of-the-Young-Woman-Picked-Up-By-Moral-Mumbai-Police, I write this as a citizen, outraged by the actions of the Mumbai Police in picking up consenting…
By Shilpa Phadke
Issue In Focus: This Thing We Call Freedom
Chandra Deo Singh, a name not necessarily familiar to many of us, spent time in prison in1945 for taking part…
By Shikha Aleya
August 1, 2015