The list of women oriented Bollywood films is huge. Most of them are slices of real life. Bollywood has portrayed on the celluloid the lives of women from different layers of Indian society till date. Bollywood, through its lens, has depicted many women centric stories; some are heart-touching, some are shocking, some are social commentaries, [...]

Agnidev Chatterjee who debuted as a director in Tollywood the Bangla movie industry with Churulata 2011, the contemporary, bold take on Satyajit Ray’s classic Charulata, is going to adapt the Delhi gang rape case 2012 on the celluloid in his upcoming Bangla movie. The movie on the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old girl in [...]

Medscape India along with Lyricist Sameer Anjaan comes with song Maa – a song to save our girl child on female infanticide and foeticide. As a part of campaign against the female foeticide and to promote the girl child, Lyricist Sameer Anjaan dedicated song with Medscape India. The Medscape India proposed song to create awareness for female foeticide to government and requested health [...]

MedscapeIndia along with Healthcare Bodies shows anger toward the continuous women harassment, ask government to take immediate action & work on root cause of rape by Gender sensitization. MedscapeIndia along with Healthcare bodies have joined hands to fight against women harassment and molestation. MedscapeIndia supports cause Save the Girl Child working to empowerment at various level & [...]

The hanging of Dhananjay the rapist in 2004 is all history for today’s rapists. Such crimes against women as molestation and rape hit the headlines of newspapers every other day. Delhi and Kolkata record a larger number of rape cases than other Indian metropolises in 2012. Kolkata shocks the nation with the rape of a [...]

My Kolkata has been hitting headlines for wrong reasons since the beginning of 2012. Crimes against woman (mainly rape) and political controversies are dominating the space on the front page of all leading English and Bengali newspapers. Recently rape cases have outnumbered the cases of political controversy, making the city unsafe for women, and dragging [...]

Discriminating men from and women, the haves from the haves not, the literate from the illiterate has been a common practice in the rural backwaters of India, since time immemorial. Innocent people have been discriminated against on grounds of caste, religion, gender, social order and profession. Women are still victims of discrimination on ground of [...]