Gender based violence refers to acts directed at an individual based on their gender, the abuse of power and harmful norms. Gender based violence is a serious violation of human rights and a life-threatening health and protection issue.
This article precisely discusses the leftist and rightist viewpoint with several recent instances on the ineffectiveness of the government (schemes not sufficiently viable) and never ending atrocities on the marginalized either physical or mental.
Sati was not at all a dominant societal custom in the Vedic era, nor did it originate from the Vedas. Other major Hindu texts, like the Dharmashastric corpus, which are post-Vedic texts, don't remotely promote Sati.
There are certain questions which need to be answered before discussing about Sati. Was Sati sanctioned and mandated in the religio-legal scripts or texts in ancient India?
In the age of 24/7 media, we have become so accustomed to the portrayal of women as a sum total of their sexual body parts, that we do not even realize when in real life also we manifest that behavior and objectify women by singling out body parts of women without finding anything wrong in doing so.
Women are subject to violence not only from husbands but also from members of both the natal and the marital home. Girls and women in India are usually less privileged than boys in terms of their position in the family and society and in terms of access to material resources.
Raja, a unique festival of Odisha is a positive deviation from the prevalent thoughts of considering menstruation a taboo, according to which this natural phenomena occurring in half the population is something to be embarrassed about.
A careful reading of Valmiki Ramayan brings out Sita's core characters in its wholeness, making her more relatable, that other retelling of Ramayana somehow could not convey.
Given the consistency in the position taken by Army leadership in all the previous occasions whenever the matter of women’s role in Army came up for debate, Center's reply doesn’t look out of sync with the view of the Army top brass.