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Friday, October 24, 2025
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Topic: consent

How did you react when people you looked up to were named in India’s #MeToo?

With #MeToo hitting India, several popular names from entertainment and media industry have been accused of sexual harassment by women. ThePrint asks: How did you...

‘Consent has to be enthusiastic, you cannot be coerced, forced or intimidated into sex’

Uma Subramanian, founder of NGO Aarambh India, also says the onus of proving rape should lie solely with the accused.

Barkha Dutt on why she thinks Aziz Ansari is gross but not an example of #MeToo

Polarised responses to the Ansari story expose the generation divide of feminism. Women need to talk to each other before we talk to men.

What can India learn from Aziz Ansari’s case if it’s not even willing to see marital rape

In a country, which adamantly refuses to recognise “marital rape”, we are still far away from these complicated conversations about sex, coercion, entitlement and misogyny in the bedroom.

The Aziz Ansari case: Bad date or sexual assault?

Young journalists atThePrint answered questions about the Aziz Ansari incident after a woman wrote about the actor allegedly sexually assaulting her.

The Aziz Ansari episode reminds me of all the Indian boys who can’t say please, or thank you

As a feminist stand-up comedian who is pro #MeToo, Radhika Vaz doesn’t want to list the number of ways ‘Grace’ could have changed the outcome.

After ruling sex with a minor wife as rape, SC needs to examine India’s child abuse law

The clause of the Indian Penal Code that allowed intercourse with married girls between 15 and 18 years was rendered irrelevant by POCSO Act before this decision.

Privacy verdict presents big data as a reality we need to work with, not against.

It is difficult to say if the verdict places individual consent as a deal-breaker when used by private actors.

On Camera

In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy

With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.