Kerala nun case: Can courts demand clinical precision from rape victims?
A traumatised rape survivor, that too a nun, cannot be expected to narrate abuse in consistent, accurate terms, say legal experts “The victim was…
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What it means to be a nun in Kerala: Stories of ordeal and steely nerves
What does it mean to be a nun? It is not exactly what films show us – living a conscientious life in the serene…
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Why Nirbhaya Homes are shutting the door on rape victims in Kerala
Home, they say, is where the heart is. But for 15-year-old Pooja, home is where trauma was. Unable to bear the trauma, Pooja left…
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Labour ward to court, a Kerala woman’s ordeal to get her baby back: The story of an ‘unwed mother’
The family court in Thiruvananthapuram has stayed the controversial adoption procedure followed for the child of Anupama S Chandran and Ajith Kumar, who raised…
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Pending cases in Kerala’s family courts mount to frustrating heights
In 2018, Beena (name changed), a typist in the Kerala Police department, realised that her 15-year-long marriage was emotionally dead and beyond repair. That…
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Public Health
Kerala’s tryst with Nipah: A tale of scare, vigilance and tears
In Kerala’s experience, the fatality rate of Nipah was 89 per cent as 17 out 19 infected people succumbed to the virus in 2018.…
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What the piling bodies and helplessness are doing to our overworked health workers
Healthcare workers all over the world are exposed to tremendous levels of risk for anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, moral distress and post-traumatic stress disorder.…
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How the new abortion law fails to give women the absolute right over their bodies
The new Act gives the right to seek abortion to unmarried women too, as it replaced the term ‘married woman and her husband’ in…
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A woman, an Editor erased from History
Haleema Beevi, the first woman editor of Kerala, played multiple roles with a single objective—to empower, educate and organise Muslim women. “Dear sisters, let’s…
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Baby blues: Why Indians need to be more sensitive to new moms
There is a stage called postpartum depression. A majority of police officers that I talked to have not even heard of this. Those who have…
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