Safer City Project: Halonix Takes a New Approach to Advertising
Halonix has set out to change the nature of traveling at night by increasing lightning in dark areas. Using social media and a grassroots approach, they are targeting those areas and placing huge billboards that illuminate the area. This before-and-after picture shows the difference it can make! Here is a …
Court Gives Married Men Free Ticket to Rape Their Spouses
Just recently the court of Delhi has so wisely decided that forced sexual intercourse in marriage is not considered rape. What’s extremely hard to digest, is that the court of Delhi believes that just because a woman and man are married means the man can force the woman to have sex. Didn’t …
Hey Rape Victims, It's All Your Fault
Trigger Warning: This depicts and satirizes sexual violence. Satire can sometimes help show the absurdity of common beliefs, this is one of those instances.
Viira Cabs: Empowering Women Through Taxis
Hear the inspirational story of a woman who decides to empower herself and other women to take a job that Indian women traditionally shy away from. Share to spread the great work Viira Cabs is doing! Viira Cabs Winning the Amodini Award // Post by Viira Cabs.
Maternal Mortality Rates Finally Dropping, But Is It Enough?
Problem Maternal death is defined by the medical dictionary, MediLexicon, as the, “death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days after the termination of gestation, irrespective of the duration and site of pregnancy and the cause of death; two periods are recognized in the 42-day interval: period one includes day …
Muslims Killed by Bodo Rebels Over Politics
Ethnic violence strikes once again in India this week. With the murder of more than 32 people, there has been violence in the state of Assam between the Bodo tribe rebels and victim Muslims. As of May 3rd, 22 people had been arrested for the killing of the Muslims in Assam. The assault was led …
#Poo2Loo: A Not-So-Crappy Solution to a Shitty Problem
The digestive system is responsible for the solid waste that ends up in our toilets, a.k.a. feces, poop that is.Toddlers are potty trained at a young age, and they have to start to do their business in the toilet. Imagine not having a toilet, where would human waste end up? Westerners take …
Khaps Approve Inter-caste Marriages, Break Traditional Barriers.
Khap panchayats have always been in the news for the wrong reasons but it now looks like the Khaps are trying to make history by relaxing their obnoxious restrictions of their traditions from more than 650 years. Haryana’s biggest khap panchayat, Satrol khap in Hisar on April 21 gave approval to inter-caste …
Doctor Rapes Sister in Delhi for Eight Years
Issue Rape in India is a prominent issue that to this day has not been handled properly. If it were, the number of rape incidents wouldn’t be increasing dramatically. After the gang rape of a student in Delhi who lost her life, the number of reported rape incidents has doubled. …
