Legislative Silence: Confronting the Barriers to a Law on Honour Crimes in India

Introduction The so- called honour crimes, deeply entrenched in India’s socio-cultural fabric, represent a brutal intersection of caste hierarchies, patriarchal norms, and societal control over individual autonomy. These crimes, which include acts like murder, assault, and harassment, are often carried out to protect family “honour” in response to perceived transgressions such as inter-caste or intra-gotra […]

Violence Against Women in Politics in Kenya is An Attack on Democracy

[responsivevoice_button] The Problem “I didn’t know Beatrice Elachi was this empty. On behalf of the Luhya Community, we disown her,” lamented Otwoma the Brand via X. As much as I would love to dwell on the fact that this post has been up for close to two years, the sentiment directed at Dagoretti North Member […]

Politics of Rape in India: An Altercation Between Justice and Power

Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, has spoken out on what she claims are politicized cases and this leads to a clash between public support and the need for justice in India. Ganguly asserts that rape cases are influenced or controlled by politics in India, where police officers occasionally decline to take […]

A tale of two nations: The partition of India

Religious extremism in India: Hereto and the aftermath I stood theoros to your most rational actions of abstraction and civilization.  Your civilization destroyed me, destroys everything, including itself.  I couldn’t help but breathe the stench of blood when you further groped the entirety of my existence with your bloodied hands.  Your filthy gaze reduced me to terra nullius. […]

8 questions for decoding the Afghan crisis with Prof. (Dr) Gerrard Chaliand (Interview)

Interviewed by Nidhi Singh from Global Shapers New Delhi (an initiative of the World Economic Forum) Date: September 7, 2021   About the Speaker   Gérard Chaliand (born 1934) is a French expert in geopolitics who has published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy. Chaliand analyses of insurgencies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and […]

All you need to know about Agnipath Scheme 2022

This post is written by Sanchari Bhattacharjee, student of Christ University, Bangalore The Agnipath scheme launched by the Ministry of Defence has taken the country by storm. With media houses reporting a multitude of news about the scheme, somewhere along the lines the public has lost the understanding of the scheme.   This article aims […]

The ‘Muslim Question’ in West Bengal’s electoral politics: A Critical Analysis of the Assembly Elections 2021

This post is written by Ritabrata Roy, PhD Scholar at University of Sussex, UK I. CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND   The state of West Bengal occupies a distinct place within the political demography of Indian sub-continent since pre-independence era. Throughout the three centuries-old colonial history of India, Calcutta (now Kolkata) which was the capital of Bengal also […]