Girl Child - Different Truths

April 30, 2018
Swati Kumar
Crime, Gender

Crime against Women in India: The Black Dot of Shame

Our society is ruled by two “M’s” – Males and Money. Genders were never equal and I doubt that they ever will be in this country. Ours is a social...

January 7, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Films, History & Culture, Opinion

Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies

Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...

November 29, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Gender, Parenting

Meet Sonia Jolly, a Mother and a Good Samaritan to 45 Daughters

Sonia Jolly, a lady from an affluent family, runs ‘Upkaar Hum Hain’, an NGO, at Satna, Madhya Pradesh. She has been taking care and looking after 45 girl children,...

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

October 11, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender

Education is the Key to Reduce Child Marriage: CRY

CRY welcomes Bihar government’s move to combat child marriage and advocates that it can only be achieved by ensuring that girls get to complete higher secondary education before they...

May 14, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender, Special Feature

Motherhood Can Wait, Education Cannot

As the latest Census (2011) data reveals, there are over 13 million adolescent girls who are married between 10 and 19 years of age and a startling 3.8 million...

March 9, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Gender, Special Feature

Beena Lived the Change

They say you need only one person, yourself, to win the battle. And Beena’s journey is a living example of that. Herself being a victim of child marriage, she has...

February 24, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender

The Prince of Kolkata Bats for the Unsung Princesses

In its endeavour to ensure access to education for the girl-child, CRY receives support from the legendary Sourav Ganguly, who, apart from being a cricket-icon, is also a doting father to...

February 19, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Gender, Human Rights, Politics

Will the Enhanced Budget Allocation make Women Safer in NCR and Elsewhere?

Enhancement of budget allocation for the police for the Nirbhaya Fund, for the safety of women, though welcome, is not enough to ensure their protection. The government might have...

December 10, 2016
Shirin Shabana Khan
Advocacy, Crime, Gender

Domestic Violence: A Heinous Human Rights Violation in Private Space

The effect of domestic violence is not only physical, psychological or emotional but also impacts upon physical, social, interpersonal and financial domains. The survivors are compelled to live a poor quality of...

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