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Finding your peace, at times, is a lonely journey. Understand that peace can never be handed over to you on a platter by anyone.

We need to choose peace

Conflict is inevitable, but, if we create a proclivity towards peace in people around us, we naturally choose peace and...

12 March 2018 12:19 AM IST

The father raped his 15-year-old daughter in 2015.

Voices of hard-hitting truth

And that is when the true essence of humanitarian work smacked me hard in the face.

29 Jan 2018 1:23 AM IST

Most athletes who are suspended from international competition because of doping are women and half of them tested positive for androgen , a male hormone (Photo: Pixabay)

Doodle tribute for my heroes

There are so many women, so many voices since the dawn of time that are invaluable.

16 Dec 2017 1:07 AM IST

Women in the village say no woman was attacked (Photo: Pixabay)

Fighting the good fight

Towards the end of the panel, the moderator a woman herself asked us what women should do to gain more respect.

7 Nov 2017 12:15 AM IST

Finding your peace, at times, is a lonely journey. Understand that peace can never be handed over to you on a platter by anyone.

Ladies first: Lessons in peace

Everyone in today's generation is fighting a war on borrowed hatred.

23 Sept 2017 1:32 AM IST

Very simply, touching means when two things come in close contact with one another. (Representational image)

Touch, right and wrong

A confusing touch is one that doesn't quite feel safe, but you don't know for sure if it is unsafe.

19 May 2017 12:28 AM IST

Girls cant go to school because the route to school is peppered what India calls eve-teasing. (Representational image)

Mindset matters

The response to rape, be it legislative or policy or activism-oriented, has been largely framed around a band-aid...

10 April 2017 1:16 AM IST

Women need to be put back into the equation of equality.

Towards an inclusive, fluid future

In the same world where a woman has the freedom to work as an equal with a man, a woman is also subservient to a man.

28 Feb 2017 12:11 AM IST

A young woman runs to a police officer for protection during the New Years Eve on Brigade Road.

Men, don't be bystanders

While women, feminists and women's rights activists cried themselves hoarse, a bunch of the country's men got onto an...

16 Jan 2017 12:37 AM IST

Every criminal urge in a criminal is a reflection of the failure of a security sector system. (Representational image)

Ogling is no birthright

It is disheartening to note that there are many people who believe that it is a woman's way of dressing that causes...

28 Nov 2016 12:09 AM IST

Nigerian royals hail UK university move on statue

Nigerian royals hail UK university move on statue

Nigerian royals have welcomed moves at Britain’s Cambridge University to return a bronze cockerel stolen with...

22 March 2016 12:52 AM IST