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Ambush, retaliation, buoyancy to a reluctant pause—the latest India-Pak bump could polarise the country’s polity to the BJP’s advantage One has no way of knowing how the Varthamans of Chennai  looked at the spectacles of flag waving…

The first protest happened during the second session when the Pakistani delegation led by Raja Ali Ejaz, Pakistan's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, argued with the OIC for extending invitation to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj as the…

Jharkhand’s trained women masons have built over 15 lakh toilets in one year When Seema Khujur’s husband died in 2010, leaving her with three young children to raise, the young woman had little choice but to take on daily wage…

A student of class X of Madrassa Islamia, Chahat Mohammadi is a determined girl. She sets out with her friends on a journey to educate women and girls in her locality and adjoining rural areas about the importance of menstrual hygiene. She…

The South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), in collaboration with the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Initiative (WASH) by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), organized a conference on the theme of ‘Gender &…

SAWM India stands in solidarity with women who have over the past few days come out with their accounts of workplace sexual harassment. We have noted with deep concern the patriarchal and offensive behaviour of men within the journalistic…

A day after the Congress declared that the Bharat Bandh it had called on Monday enjoyed the support of 21 opposition parties, the Bahujan Samaj Party struck a sour note, indicating that the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition being…

IN a crowded cafe in the A K K Mall in downtown Yangon, squeezed on a table between strangers, a pro-democracy activist looks around warily and warns that talking about the Rohingya in a public place is not a good idea. He says it would be…

By Geeta Mohan Pakistan bureaucrat Danyal Gilani, half-brother of terrorist David Coleman Headley (alias Daood Gilani), one of the co-conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, spoke to India Today TV, defending himself as an "honest…

We, the members of South Asian Women in the Media (SAWM), condemn the brutal attacks on school and college students in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during their peaceful protests for improved road safety measures. We also vehemently condemn the…