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Indira Jaising: โ€˜Now is the time to reclaim the Constitutionโ€™

The senior advocate on writing her memoir, womenโ€™s rights, and the challenges facing the judiciary

She was told to marry in a country which bans girls' education. So she got in a taxi and fled

Nearly five years on from the school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams.

Lakshmi could have been a child bride

Teenage girls across five villages in Uttar Pradeshโ€™s Chandauli district are resisting child marriage, supported by frontline government workers who donโ€™t want to see their own lives repeated in another generation. Ashna Butani meets the women leading and demanding change, in a State that sees the highest number of child brides in India

Casual sexism and โ€˜harmlessโ€™ jokes force women into silence at workplaces, says panel

Speakers at Telanganaโ€™s โ€˜Stand With Herโ€™ discussion say microaggression, tokenism and gender stereotypes continue to shape emotionally unsafe environments for women at work and home