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“Policy changes can help make Bengaluru an equal city for women”

June 11, 2020 Sneha Visakha

Bengaluru lacks the infrastructure required for women to move around freely and participate in the public sphere. To change this, the city needs to be planned and designed differently.

How Karnataka’s first women’s football league is picking new talent

September 12, 2019 Grace Madigan

Even as women’s football lay neglected for decades, hundreds of women have been playing the game informally in Karnataka. Now the state football association is forming leagues to give them the opportunities they deserve

Women come together in Bengaluru to prepare manifesto with gender lens

April 30, 2018 Seema Prasad

Women’s Reservation Bill has been forgotten by all. There is no gender-sensitive approach in governance. The need for a women’s lens was felt in the event.

Never-ending rapes: What. Exactly. Is. Going. Wrong?

February 25, 2014 Devishobha Chandramouli

Do we, as a society, nurture the culture of shaming the woman’s body? Do we nurture the belief that women are a burden to us?

All about good girls, bad girls

May 13, 2013 Kedar Nadella

The 15-minute movie by Padmalatha Ravi depicts the perceptions of various people belonging to various profiles, on rape and violence against women.

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‘Good Girls Don’t Dance’ to be screened on Sunday

May 11, 2013 Kedar Nadella

Post-Delhi gang rape, there have been many attempts at various levels, to understand the phenomenon of sexual violence on women. The 15-minute documentary is one such attempt.