What’s the use of India’s track record of holding regular polls if voting rights of half its population, mostly women, are compromised at the altar of an inefficient registration system?

Forget the streets, women are not even safe at home. Gender violence indoors is akin to an elephant in the room. Still, we lack a uniform redressal mechanism

Better education is not leading to better job opportunities, marriage prospects or freedom of movement

There needs to be robust infrastructure for official statistics so that governments do not suppress inconvenient truths

Even as the Government is hastily drafting the quota Bill for the EWS section, like most predecessors, it has orphaned the Women’s Reservation Bill