A sexual harassment case has been registered against the pastor of a church in a village in Punjab’s Jalandhar district, police said on Sunday. In the complaint, a woman alleged that she and her parents have been visiting the church since October 2017. Pastor Bajinder Singh took her mobile number and started sending messages. She…
Actor Sruthi Hariharan. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K Kannada actor Sruthi Hariharan has called for a forum in the Kannada film industry along the lines of the K. Hema Committee, which was constituted by the Government of Kerala following Women in Cinema Collectiveâs (WCC) petition in 2017. Published recently, the Hema Committee report revealed…
âIn the absence of adequate structural protection by the state and the society, the onus of oneâs safety often falls on women themselvesâ | Photo Credit: Soumyadip Sinha/THE HINDU The brutal rape and murder of a woman doctor in Kolkata has led to the country finding itself, once again, engaged in a deep conversation on…
Sexual assault in India isnât just an act of gender-based violence; it is also one that reinforces caste and power equations and the structural biases inherent in society. As if to underscore this point comes the Justice Hema Committee reportâheavily redacted and released this week, five years after it was submitted to the Kerala government…
