What is Saathiya? Between existing taboos around discussing sexuality in the country and the pervasive attitude that children tend to best learn about growing up and development on their own time, the fact remains that it is primarily peer groups that discuss and circulate knowledge gleaned around these issues. ‘Saathiyas’ are young boys and girls...

The POCSO Crime Log is a monthly chronological listing that tracks POCSO Cases reported in reliable media sources. 30 cases came to our notice in the month of March 2017.

Going through the archives of our mothership Prerana, we found this stunning flipbook issued by the Family Planning Association of India. The purpose of the flipbook is to ‘help the parent, teacher, family planning worker and the peer group leader to discuss common problems of sexuality among youth’. It is hard to say when this...

  Since the launch the portal has received 426 reports from users across India.

Some volunteered for Aadhaar, while the rest are having it thrust upon them. The debate over the Aadhaar card and the bio-metric database and its security design, relevance etc is currently attaining critical mass. And it has not been easy to keep up with the news and machinations around it. What is clear is that...