The varied trajectories of Bengali cabaret/bar dancers who ferried themselves between the two cities of Mumbai and Kolkata in search of livelihood and shelter since the last decades of the 20th century are mapped. Taking Kolkata as the epicentre of research, the author proposes to trace the eviction drive of the city’s erotic dancers ascribing their large-scale exodus to the
Nearly six months after a complete gag order to media reporting and uploading of judgements on cases pertaining to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (POSH) Act, 2013, the Bombay High Court has clarified that it was .
Nearly six months after a complete gag order to media reporting and uploading of judgements on cases pertaining to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (POSH) Act, 2013, the Bombay High Court has clarified that it was case specific and not applicable to all matters under the (POSH) act.
The clarification came while disposing of an application filed by Forum Against Oppression of Women seeking to intervene in the petition in which the guidelines were issued last September.
Hundreds of feminists, democratic groups, academicians, lawyers and activists on Thursday issued an open letter condemning the row over girls wearing hijab in colleges in Karnataka, saying it has become the "latest pretext to impose apartheid on and attack Muslim women". It said the video from Mandya in Karnataka of a saffron-stole-wearing mob of men surrounding a