Tag: Uttar Pradesh
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Family Planning: Only a Woman’s Responsibility?
New government measures claim to increase the contraceptive choices given to women, but they still put the responsibility of contraception on women.
Too Beautiful to Pray?
Patriarchy supplies a slew of bizarre rationales for keeping women away from places of worship.
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When the Personal is Political: Inequality within Marriage
In rural Uttar Pradesh, one young woman brings her camera and lots of courage to dismantle patriarchy.
When Children ‘Perform’ Gender
In rural Uttar Pradesh children exaggerate ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ when performing gendered actions. But are things as black and white as they seem?
‘Make Men Wear Veils and They will Understand our Difficulties’
In rural Uttar Pradesh, one woman challenges men to cover their faces and then successfully execute their work.
Menstruation is Still Shrouded in Silence and Shame
A woman on her period is supposed to follow a thousand baseless stipulations of what she can eat, where she can go, what she can touch. When shall we learn to treat period as yet another normal bodily function?
200 Village Residents hold Authorities Accountable for Lack of Work Under MGNREGA
In a small drought affected village in Uttar Pradesh, the community came together to solve systemic bureaucratic apathy and wrested the employment guaranteed under MGNREGA.
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Swachh Bharat Mission fails 500 families in Uttar Pradesh
Are these 500 families in Uttar Pradesh village, an exception or is it part of a trend indicating improper implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission? “Advertisements promoting the Swachh Bharat Mission are all over the television. The government is shouting from rooftops that toilets will be built. But it’s all...