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Thirty years ago, Ushaben Rathod started her investment journey and today runs a thriving business. A resident of Bapunagar, Ushaben has spent her life as a daily wager polishing diamonds in Ahmedabad. An embodiment of the saying that entrepreneurship runs in the blood of Gujaratis, Ushaben and thousands like her have benefitted from a ‘service’ […]
When a 60 plus-year-old man Kisanbhai (name changed on request) shouted that Muslims should be beggars, not hotel owners, he meant it very sincerely. Not taking into consideration that his son who lives in the United State of America works for a Muslim-owned company, he furiously shouted anti-Muslim slogans. “This is my country. America is […]
“We need to look at the role that women play in perpetuating gender-based abuse. A lot of abuses that we consume in popular media, shown as happening to women in Bollywood movies or TV dramas, is women abusing other women. Popular culture normalises it for society,” says Mandy Sanghera, award-winning philanthropist and human-rights activist from […]
“In South Asian societies, we genderise so early on,” says Nandita Das, actor, director and human-rights activist, about the inherent gender discrimination in South Asian societies. Speaking at the opening panel of eShe’s South Asia Union Summit Led by Women. Das was among 50 eminent women from 13 countries who came together to seek solutions […]
Nasreen Bano (50), clutches hard the papers in the cradle of her arm, as her nephew, Aslam Nagori (26), talks to the media about his accident. Nasreen knows the documents in her hand-collected over a year since Aslam’s accident – is her only chance to get justice for her nephew, who is now wheelchair-bound and […]
Article 29 and Article 30 of the Cultural and Educational Rights Act of the Indian Constitution give minority schools the right to administer their schools without the interference of a state government. But in a recent move, the Gujarat government has submitted an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court stating that “reasonable regulations” are required […]
The dispensation that rules India claims Gujarat is a promised land of plenty and a model to emulate but the state’s abysmal record in child health stands in stark contrast to those big boasts. Ask Feriyal Suran, an auxiliary nurse midwife from Ahmedabad — and not some remote corner of Gujarat — if she often […]
Hundreds of thatched huts, rickety houses, tin-sheds jostling for space amid smelling overflowing public toilets. And a narrow squalid lane meandering through them. Welcome to Ramapir Tekra, a typical slum colony in Ahmedabad’s Vadaj locality and home to around 150 tribal migrants. Some 70 per cent of them would be single male migrants, anywhere from […]
Saajanben, an Adivasi woman stripped and paraded in town for eloping with her lover. Saajanben is about 23 years old. She is a mother to a year old infant. She hardly has any milk in her breasts, yet she tries to feed him because her family hardly has any money to buy milk from the […]
Cedric Prakash, a human rights activist from Ahmedabad pays homage to late Fr. Stan Swamy and says that it has been ten days now since Fr. Stan Swamy left us but the plain truth is that the legacy he has left us is alive even today and we must do all we can to protect and […]
When Pankti Jog, a resident of Ahmedabad asked the local police as to whether we lived in an authoritarian or feudal State and whether Ministers were Kings that the Praja (the citizens) had to live under their diktats and not democratic principles, she meant it. Literally. Local police in Gujarat in Ahmedabad, issued instructions to […]
Parul Khakhar speaks volumes with her silence. This revolutionary poet from Gujarat who captured the imagination of the world with her “Shab Vahini Ganga” has not been selective in her criticism of the “system”. People who try to denigrate her work as a one-time outing to defame the government for its mishandling of the pandemic, […]
A tribal woman in Gujarat is fearing for her life and pleading for help from the police in a family dispute where in the accused reportedly assaulted her physically and sexually. Vinita, 43, has registered a FIR with Chichod police in Chhota Udepur claiming that her 21-year-old son Ajay had a love marriage with Payal […]
