Editor’s Pick

Editor’s Pick

Manipur – Will the Central Government Stand In the Witness-Box Please?

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A victim in a Meitei relief camp in Imphal, who lost her family members during the ethnic tensions between Meiteis and Kukis in Manipur, that has lasted for 18 months since May, 2023 told me – “Imagine two kids fighting, will the father or mother not step-in to stop the fight? Now imagine the children actually killing each other – will the parents still not step-in to prevent the violence? Then why is the Central government not stepping in to stop Manipur state from burning?”

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Missing Manipur, Dead Democracy: An Account of Government Failure & People’s Misery

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Manipur: Silence is the loudest sound. As we entered Imphal Valley, the capital city of Manipur, I felt an eerie silence that couldn’t be mistaken for peace. The beautiful northeastern state is missing from the Map of India. It has become a forgotten state.

All one could see while traveling in Manipur right now are scenes of people being hounded out of their lives, rounded up, and herded into camps bifurcated based on community. When we visited the relief camps of both the major communities, Kuki and Meitei, all I could spot was helplessness. Zoned-out faces were looking at the sky remembering their murdered family members, their teary eyes filled with the willingness to return to their homes that now are being burnt and vandalized by an angry mob.

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Iraq’s Law Makers Decide To Lower The Consent Age For Girls To 9

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Are we moving forward or thousands of years back vis-a-vis women’s rights? Iraq’s Parliament is discussing a proposal to reduce the women’s consent age from 18 years to 9 years. This means that, if the law is passed, then women in Iraq could be legally married off at the age of nine years, with equally serious implications on their custody, inheritance, and related personal laws, alongside education and health.

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Lives Under Construction: Women Road Builders at 13500ft

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In the distant, dusty valleys of Ladakh, there sits a 2-year-old boy all alone with a dry & grubby face covered with a bedsheet tent along with a dupatta tied to his waist that prevents him from falling off the ridge & also from crawling to the middle of the Leh-Kargil highway, where on the other side, works his middle-aged mother as a construction laborer.

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Menstrual Leaves Should No Longer Be Up for Debate

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The Karnataka government’s proposal to allocate 6 days of menstrual leave per year for women in the public and private sector will reopen debate and discussions on its requirement in the workplace. The absence of National Legislation in India that provides for menstrual leaves to working women is a pivotal indicator of the status accorded to women’s issues and needs in parliament. 77 years after independence, we have three other states- Bihar, Kerala, and Orissa, and a handful of private companies such as Swiggy, Zomato, Magzter, etc, which have taken steps to acknowledge and extend support for this universal biological phenomenon.

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Delhi Chalo Padyatra, From Ladakh To Delhi With Mr. Sonam Wangchuk

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Torrential rain poured over his blue raincoat as environmentalist Sonam Wangchuk walked on the 15th day of the Delhi Chalo Padyatra. Spanning nearly 1000 km from the mountains of Leh to the capital city of New Delhi, the Ramon Magsaysay Award winner led over 75 Ladakh residents through the unrelenting terrains of Himachal Pradesh to reach Delhi by 2nd October, 2024. “It’s all in the mind”, Mr. Wangchuk declared in an exclusive interview with The Womb in Lahaul, when asked of the difficulties they are facing while on the way. Adorning a traditional Himachali topi and a white scarf, he was not fazed by the hardships they encountered during the march.

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Teachers’ Day Special: Ms. Anulata Singh-An Educator Par Excellence

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Clad in a pink georgette sari on the special request of her students, the Head Mistress of Government Middle School No. 51, Kulkarni Nagar, Indore, reluctantly agreed to celebrate Teacher’s Day this year. “The students should be celebrated”, Ms. Anulata Singh would say whenever accolades were bestowed upon her. Awarded with Rajya Stariya Shaikshik Samman (State level Education Trophy) and chosen among 100 inspirational educators in the book Meri Shaikshik Yatra (My Educational Journey) after 31 years of exemplary service, Anulata had never imagined being part of the teaching profession in her youth.

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The Womb Launches : The Common Woman

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We have built a society where ‘the common man’ is the general applicable standard. In our society, the women and their voices are often invisibilised and unheard, at both individual and collective level, on an everyday basis.

So while women suffer in silence, there is no platform for them to stand in their own power and be heard. It is in the light of this, that ‘The Womb’ has decided to launch a new vertical – ‘The Common Woman’.

If you have a story that deserves to be told, shared and mulled over, write to us. Pain and joys when shared, multiplies. It is time, that we get over the taboo and talk about issues that matter, stories that women actually live, stories which are suffocating under the pressure of emotions such as guilt, shame, fear, vulnerabilities.

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फर्रुखाबाद: परिवार का दावा आत्महत्या नहीं बलात्कार और हत्या है

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यूपी के फर्रुखाबाद में दो दलित लड़कियों के शव पेड़ पर लटके मिलने की घटना ने एक बार फिर पूरे देश में डर का माहोल पैदा कर दिया है। कोलकाता में ट्रेनी डॉक्टर के साथ हुए दुष्कर्म की घटना पर पूरे देश में आक्रोश का माहौल अभी शांत ही नही हुआ कि यूपी से एक ओर दिल दहला देने वाला मामला सामने आया है। बीते 26 अगस्त की शाम को दो सहेलियां जिनकी उम्र 15 वर्ष और 18 वर्ष थी, पूरे उत्साह से जन्माष्टमी का कार्यक्रम देखने मंदिर गई परंतु फिर वापिस अपने घर नहीं लौट पाई।

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