Eisha Hussain is a multimedia reporter at Behanbox. Her work has covered issues around gender and sexuality, displaced communities from conflict zones, and protest cultures.
Gender Based Violence21 Jan 2024
In the public discourse around the Mandir, the Muslim voice has been absent. Here is why the community has chosen numbness over articulation
Crime12 May 2023
Data debunks false claims about ‘missing women’, the real problem lies elsewhere
Disability13 Jan 2023
Despite clear guidelines, insurance companies in India exclude those with intellectual and developmental disabilities from coverage
Crime18 Oct 2022
The murder last week of Chennai college student Sathya Priya by her stalker is at once horrific and familiar: a young woman is followed and harassed […]
Data28 Sep 2022
The steady fall in India’s maternal mortality rate over the last two decades glosses over significant variations between states, districts and social groups, show data. Poverty, […]
Inequality19 Sep 2022
For two years now Shabana Khatoon has been living under a tarpaulin sheet near the Dhobi Ghat in south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar. For 20 years, this […]
Data07 Sep 2022
The sex ratio of the National Capital Territory of Delhi has been consistently skewed over three decades, shows a BehanBox analysis. The reason for this lies […]
Gender Based Violence01 Sep 2022
Nafeesa Bibi* (36) was 16 when she left her home in a Bangladesh village and swam across the Ichhamati river into Bongaon in the North 24 […]
Gender Based Violence18 Aug 2022
With criminal networks, apathetic policing and patriarchal practices turning the impoverished Sundarbans delta region in West Bengal into a trafficking hub, it is now up to […]
Inequality10 Aug 2022
As August rains swept Delhi, more than 500 workers, mostly women, gathered around the Jantar Mantar monument to protest delayed wages, reduced workdays and digital glitches […]
Data31 Jul 2022
The pandemic may have undone decades of work in controlling teen pregnancies, shows a Behanbox analysis: at least 7% of all women aged 15-19 years began […]
Crime14 Jul 2022
Police stations with help desks for women, especially those run by women, are more likely to register cases of gender-based violence, says a new study, ‘Policing […]
Gender Based Violence04 Jul 2022
The Calcutta High Court has ordered the Government of West Bengal to ensure adequate funds with the State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) to disburse compensation to […]
Crime27 Jun 2022
Here are some critical data-points on crimes against women in Delhi for the year 2020 from the Crime in India report by National Crime Records Bureau. 997 […]
Gender Based Violence20 Jun 2022
The rights of women from India’s marginalised communities are being disproportionately constrained and eroded in digital civic spaces, says a report by The Bachchao Project, a […]
Law01 Jun 2022
The recent Supreme Court directives on guaranteeing sex workers dignity and constitutional freedoms still leaves some critical problem areas unaddressed and these can only be resolved […]
Labour Rights25 May 2022
The recent industrial fire at an electronic assembly unit of Cofe Impex Pvt Ltd in west Delhi’s Mundka village has exposed the social and economic precarity […]
Abortion Rights14 May 2022
Experts argue that linking digital identities to sensitive health services not only restricts access to reproductive healthcare but also infringes on women’s privacy rights, especially for marginalized groups.
Crime26 Apr 2022
On the morning of April 20, Raheema Begum* watched as her family’s only source of livelihood, a cold drink kiosk, was reduced to rubble during the […]
Caste14 Apr 2022
After a year-long campaign by a Dalit women’s union in Tamil Nadu, the multinational fast-fashion brand H&M and its Tamil Nadu-based supplier, Eastman Exports Global Clothing […]
Caste12 Apr 2022
[This article contains descriptions of sexual and physical violence, which might trigger unwelcome and distressing memories or thoughts. We advise readers to use their discretion before […]
LGBTQIA+30 Mar 2022
Roll call is always traumatising for Veronica Tyagi, 19, a trans woman studying zoology at the Lovely Professional University in Phagwara, Punjab. Every time Tyagi responds […]
Adoption21 Mar 2022
It took nearly a year for Virginia* and her husband to bring home the four siblings they had asked to adopt. The children were aged between […]
Resistance14 Mar 2022
Delhi's anganwadi workers (AWW) and helpers (AWH), who ended their 38-day strike on March 9, will move court against the state government order terminating the services […]
Resistance07 Mar 2022
A sea of red flags rises up along Flagstaff Road in north Delhi’s Civil Lines area, just a few metres from the home of chief minister […]
Hunger28 Feb 2022
Two years into the pandemic, approximately more than two-thirds of Indian households surveyed across 14 states reported experiencing some kind of food insecurity, according to the […]
Caste24 Feb 2022
[This article contains descriptions of sexual and physical violence, which might trigger unwelcome and distressing memories or thoughts. We advise readers to use their discretion before […]
Policy08 Feb 2022
Schemes that directly target Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have not received enough allocations in the Union Budget announced on February 1, says a […]
Inequality17 Jan 2022
For over three weeks now, eight Muslim students of the Government Pre-University College (PUC) for Girls in Udupi, Karnataka, have been sitting outside their classrooms with […]
Stories06 Jan 2022
[Trigger Warning: This article contains some disturbing accounts of harassment and violence against women,which might trigger unwelcome and distressing memories or thoughts. We advise readers to […]
Caste30 Dec 2021
“You will suffer the same fate as Gauri Lankesh,” Meena Kotwal, a Dalit woman journalist and founder of the media platform The Mooknayak ,was told over […]
Data15 Dec 2021
Indian women are exercising more agency as they participate more in decision making within their households, own and operate bank accounts and mobile phones, and own […]
Caste09 Dec 2021
Sujata Lilaka (21), a final year nursing student at YMT Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital in Kharghar in Panvel district of Maharashtra, collapsed on her way […]
Labour Rights17 Nov 2021
The Mitanins that BehanBox spoke to have either received no or partial payments since January 2020. Worse, in districts where the women received some money, the state has been recovering part of the compensation paid to them.
Mining13 Oct 2021
“We will not leave our forests and lands for Adani,” thundered Mayawati, a 65 yr old Adivasi woman from Fattepur village in Surguja district in northern […]
Policy04 Oct 2021
The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN), a modified version […]
Health28 Sep 2021
On August 26th, 2021, Dr Jibnus Ekta performed tubectomies on 101 women in a span of seven hours between 8 PM and 3 AM, at a […]
Data20 Sep 2021
On 26th March 2020, the Union Finance Ministry announced a Rs 1.70 Lakh Crore COVID-19 relief package under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY). The […]
Law11 Aug 2021
On July 11th, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, announced the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill as part of the state’s population […]
Gender Based Violence18 Jul 2021
Shaikh Tabinda received a message from her friend, on the night of 4 July, which read that she had been ‘sold’ in an online ‘auction’ on […]