Female feticide, child marriage, rape – these words have made headlines in India in recent months. In response to the crisis about the way women are treated, a bizarre guideline issued by the police in Kolkata has poured more fuel on the fire, says DW’s Debarati Guha.

If you were to land in Chennai in southern India one of these days, do not be surprised to see sari-clad women with khaki jackets, zipping around the city and ferrying passengers in black-and-yellow tuk-tuks, known as autorickshaws in India.

Since 1997 Nighat Shafi pandit and her group of activists have been undertaking different kinds of projects for children and destitute women in India-administered Kashmir. On the Friday I got in touch with her, Pandit was really tense as she spoke on phone for a couple minutes: “I am very upset and startled by the floods in Kashmir.

Messages to bring about behavioral change. (Credit: Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan)

Anita Devi, 50, of Dumri village in India’s eastern state Jharkhand, leaves her chores midway to rush to attend the meeting at the panchayat (village council) office. As she arrives,

The presence of young women in the movement for a violence-free society for women has infused new energy and vigour.

After the brutal gang rape of a young woman in December 2012 in the national capital, following which she succumbed to her injuries, there was a great upsurge of people protesting on the streets.

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Women at the ENSS meet in Jaipur. Credit: ENSS

“What you think, you become… If you think you are weak, then you are.