West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee penned a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday amid furore over the rape and murder of a Kolkata doctor. The CM noted that her previous missive had failed to evoke a suitable response and reiterated calls for āstringent central legislation on incidents of rapeā. Meanwhile the…
Sexual assault in India isnāt just an act of gender-based violence; it is also one that reinforces caste and power equations and the structural biases inherent in society.Ā As if to underscore this point comes the Justice Hema Committee reportāheavily redacted and released this week, five years after it was submitted to the Kerala government…
Indian Medical Association begins 24-hour closure of several services from 6 a.m. on today The IMA said that the Kolkata incident has brought to fore the two dimensions of violence in the hospital ā one, a crime of barbaric scale due to the lack of safe spaces for women and the other, the hooliganism that…
Junior doctors, trainee doctors and medical students protest against the sexual assault and killing of a post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College, in Kolkata, on August 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Junior doctors across West Bengal continued ceasework on Tuesday (August 13, 2024) protesting the rape and murder of a woman doctor…
