Feature
A pension per month is quite a relief. But how far will it go to end the cultural and structural situation for widows. The Petticoat Journal analyses...
Feature
It was not just their attire that was in stark contrast to colours, and life. It was their life that was in stark contrast to life, life like it should be. But now the white widows of Vrindavan are showering colours on life. The Petticoat Journal reports...
Video
Narendra Modi at FICCI Ladies Organisation
Full speech of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi at FICCI Ladies Organisation, New Delhi
This remote village has a stark similarity with metros
Hirmathala is a non-descript village in southern Haryana which marries its daughters at the age of 15. But it bears a stark similarity with its immediate uppity neighbours, Gurgaon and Delhi.
Interview
"I am unable to have that “sense of feeling safe” about my daughter as much as my parents had for me"
Nirmala Sitharaman, national spokesperson of the BJP, talks to The Petticoat Journal about her "sense of feeling unsafe" about her daughter considering the scenario where our urban places have become completely intolerant of women. Yet, she strongly feels that India is a great place for women...
Nirmala Sitharaman, national spokesperson of the BJP, talks to The Petticoat Journal about her "sense of feeling unsafe" about her daughter considering the scenario where our urban places have become completely intolerant of women. Yet, she strongly feels that India is a great place for women...
Women's Day celebrations: Break for the routine
The International Women's Day was observed with songs, street theatre, rallies and debates. The Petticoat Journal reports...
Budget 2013
The Petticoat Journal reaction to Budget 2013
Budget 2013-14 has some important proposals for women the most significant of them being the announcement of the setting up of an all-women bank and Nirbhaya fund for the safety of women. Here's what The Petticoat Journal feels about it...
Budget 2013
Budget 2013: Women's share
Excerpts of budget 2013 highlighting benefits and allocations for women
Status of women
"Women are supposed to be in the custody of men" - Manusmriti
For a long while, we have argued about male dominance and patriarchy in our societies. As the discussions unfold and we move from one generation to another, we start from a new platform every now and then. But each time end at the same conclusion: our world is under the rule of patriarchy and the rulers refuse to budge.
The Petticoat Journal Street Reporter
If you have a story to share through photos, videos or text, send it to us along with a high resolution photo of yourself. Street Reporter is a corner exclusively dedicated for you...
The Petticoat Movement
A musical dance drama on women's emancipation
The Petticoat Movement brings to you the musical play performed under the Stand Up & Shout campaign initiated by a group of protestors in the wake of the Dec 16 gang rape in Dehli...
The Petticoat Movement
The Indian Spring
The Indian protest that the world joined
It's much over a month since the brutal gang rape in Delhi. And the world has joined in...
The Petticoat Movement
Frozen Mentalities
The Petticoat Movement reports the first of a series of freeze mobs, Frozen Mentalities, hitting at the age old mentalities which support violence against women ...
The Petticoat Movement
Kites were hoisted at Jantar Mantar on 15 Jan 2013. The symbolism is that we look forward to a colourful and bright future for all women. The Petticoat Movement reports...
Justice Verma Committee Report
The Justice Verma committee set up in the wake of post-Dec 16 Delhi gang rape protests, submitted its report to the government.
The Petticoat Movement
Slogans, candle marches, flowers...Jantar Mantar abuzz with activity on 13th Jan 2013 as the people's revolution moved ahead...The Petticoat Movement reports...
People's Protest
The Petticoat Journal brings you some pictures of the continuing protest at Jantar Mantar...The Petticoat Journal's umbrella campaign to report campaigns and protests on violence against women, The Petticoat Movement brings you some visuals straight from Jantar Mantar...
First Hand
Even as the protests in the wake of the brutal gang rape of a woman are at their peak especially in Delhi, this young woman was threatened by an auto rickshaw driver of worst violence if she complained against him for refusing to reach her to her destination.
Delhi Gang Rape
Delhi gang rape victim's male friend, the only eye witness in the case, talks about how nobody came forward to help them and the police and hospital authorities took their own sweet time even as his friend and he suffered on that fateful night.
The Petticoat Movement
The Petticoat Journal, along with a group of protestors observed Black Day on 3rd Jan 2013. We had a couple of serious reasons to see it as a Black Day...Here are some visuals brought to you under The Petticoat Movement...
Confession!
Honey Singh had sung and gloriously declared on us sometime back that he's a rapist and how he would rape a girl in a bus. Now, when he attacked, he says, "What he's going through is another form of rape." Rape of a rapist! Well, that's a first!
New Year Eve At Jantar Mantar
The Protestor's Year Ends With Human Chain & Candle Light At Jantar Mantar...At the stroke of the midnight hour on 31st December 2012, protestors at Jantar Mantar formed a human chain and observed two minutes of silence. Eve of 2013 in pictures at Jantar Mantar...
Story
This protestor is not the usual misled, politically lured youngster wielding a spear or a gun. This protestor is the common woman, the common man, fighting against violence. Not surprisingly then, The Petticoat Journal met five housemaids and an elderly gentleman who participated in the protests with honest and clear intentions of contributing to the cause...
Rape Law in India
Here are the details of the sections of Indian Penal Code which state law against rape.
Story
In the aftermath of the Monday night gangrape, we have some safety tips for women living in the capital of India. Among other things, they must vote Ms Sheila Dikshit back to power...