Actor Smriti Kalra visited the Rajya Sabha and new Parliament in Delhi to celebrate the passing of Women Reservation Bill, and she calls it a moment of pride and honour. “It has been a long journey since 1996, when the bill was first presented and it was passed after several attempts.

In the first such study of the Constitution, legislation, schemes, policies, etc, vis-à-vis the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has concluded the rights of women remain restricted in all spheres of

Nominated by the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Droupadi Murmu, 64, received 64.03% votes in the presidential electoral college, which comprises parliamentarians and state legislators.

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was recently heard at a media event speaking on the many different devotional offerings made to goddess Kali. Moitra was responding to a question on a documentary titled Kaali, the poster of which had led to widespread protests.

On one of my meanderingly purposeful field trips in Govindpuri located in South Delhi, I ran into Shweta, who rents a house in a slum cluster where the word ‘re