Priyanka Tupe, Author at BehanBox

Displacement18 Mar 2025

Displaced, Jai Bhim Nagar’s Women Are Reclaiming Urban Spaces In Mumbai

Thrown out of their homes eight months ago in a demolition drive, the women of Jai Bhim Nagar are fighting for their right to housing. They are also reclaiming spaces to keep their cultural identity alive

Caste07 Mar 2025

How Systemic Injustice Is Driving Pardhi Women To Extreme Despair, Suicide

In Pardhi bastis, suicide is so common that it is normalised by the community. Constant encounters with institutional violence, bias and poverty leave women with little hope for a better future

LGBTQIA+19 Feb 2025

Hopes Of Police Jobs Shattered, Maharashtra’s Trans women Return To Precarious Livelihoods

For five years now, Arya Pujari, a trans woman, has been relentlessly pursuing her dream of joining the police. Her struggle ties in with the transgender community’s demand for reservations in government jobs

Stories01 Feb 2025

What Monalisa’s Harassment Says About Violation Of NT-DNT Women’s Workspaces

The manner in which the young garland seller from the NT-DNT community was harassed and ultimately forced to flee the Kumbh Mela shows a disregard for their right to dignity, privacy and a safe workplace

Politics04 Dec 2024

How Maharashtra Poll Analyses Are Missing The Rise Of Women’s Agency

Analyses of the assembly polls in Maharashtra miss the emergent political agency of women voters by stressing only on women-centric schemes like the Ladki Bahin Yojana

Politics25 Nov 2024

With Fewer Women MLAs, Gender Parity Takes A Hit In Maharashtra Assembly

Smaller states in India have a better record of women’s representation in their assembly. In Maharashtra, the gender skew is glaring – few contest, fewer win and those who do often have family backing

Politics11 Nov 2024

Inflation, Unemployment, Women’s Rights: Maharashtra Assembly Says ‘Maybe Later!’

The 14th Maharashtra Assembly rammed through 1000 crucial resolutions in the last days but was visibly silent on crucial development issues

Uncategorized17 Oct 2024

Ajit Pawar Goes Pink: Are Maharashtra’s Women Ready for a ‘Dada’ Makeover?

The leaders’s campaign is awash with pink in a bid to reach out to women voters and to position himself as their big brother and benefactor

Gender Based Violence24 Sep 2024

How Maharashtra’s Women Academics Are Resisting The Hate Narrative

In the face of rising right-wing hostility in western Maharashtra, women academics are pushing back, asserting their right to freedom of speech

Politics16 Sep 2024

‘Land Jihad’: How Hate Campaigns Turn Vicious In Western Maharashtra

Communal polarisation is gathering pace in the state, with right wing organisations resuming campaigns around what they call land jihad. Vishalgad and its Muslim residents are among the latest victims of this hate campaign

Gender Based Violence12 Sep 2024

Why Instant And Populist Anti-Rape Laws Will Fail To Deliver Justice

Fueled by public demands for quick justice, and pushed through hastily with no effort at addressing systemic issues, these laws cannot bring real change, say experts

Gender Based Violence29 Aug 2024

Transgender women Are Being Excluded From Maharashtra’s Cash Scheme For Women

With no clarity on trans women beneficiaries, and the many hurdles to establishing gender identity, the Ladki Bahin scheme is becoming exclusionary

Caste12 Aug 2024

Monsoon Misery: Why Umbrellas, Rain Footwear Are A Luxury For Working Class Women

A polythene bag clasped over their head is all the protection many domestic workers and women vendors have against heavy coastal monsoons

Caste02 Aug 2024

Despite Law, Caste Panchayats Still Run Kangaroo Courts In Maharashtra

Jaat panchayats that routinely impose brutal and humiliating punishments on women for defying caste norms should have been a thing of the past. But they continue to operate with impunity, say activists

Resistance30 Jul 2024

‘Committed To Janata, Not Sarkar’: Protesting Anganwadi Workers In Maharashtra

With the state indifferent to their demands for better wages and their workload heavier by one more scheme, Anganwadi workers in Maharashtra are protesting again. But their resistance tactics have changed

Caste01 Jul 2024

Rape Survivors From Nomadic Tribes Get No State Support, Compensation Or Counselling

Stigmatised and doubted when they report sexual violence, women from NT DNT communities are never informed about the resources the state provides to rape survivors

Ground Reports12 Jun 2024

Name Off Rolls, These Women Were Disenfranchised In A Crucial Election

Elderly women who fear this will be their last vote, women from minority communities keen to back democratic norms – missing from the electoral list these women feel deprived of their right to vote in what was a historic election

Ground Reports29 May 2024

Why Few Informal Workers Know Of A Portal, Meant To Ease Their Access To Welfare Schemes

An offline registration process and better outreach could help, say labour rights activists

Ground Reports16 May 2024

In Maharashtra, Women Activists Of Anti-BJP Front Join Hands ‘For Democracy’

Women activists from all the parties that allied to forge the Maha Vikas Aghadi are campaigning with a never-before show of solidarity

Ground Reports06 May 2024

Women’s Collectives Are Pitching Their Own Manifestos To Parties, Candidates

From women belonging to nomadic tribes to cane-cutters, small social and workers’ groups are presenting their charter of demands to politicians and parties contesting the ongoing elections

Ground Reports30 Apr 2024

‘Inflation Does Not Allow Us To Even Aspire For A Better Life’

A cinema outing, books, dreams of personal space – every joy, big and small, has to be put off, says a young social activist, in the face of inflation

Ground Reports22 Apr 2024

How Jal Jeevan Mission Left Women In Maharashtra’s Hill Districts High And Dry

The taps and pipelines meant to carry water to the homes of hill-dwelling communities of the state have either not been installed or have no water supply. Women trudge miles and undertake risks to collect water

Caste31 Mar 2024

Rural Jobs Scheme Has Yet To Benefit The Most Marginalised Women Of Maharashtra

Our investigation across eight villages showed just one project available under MGNREGS, forcing women to migrate as far as Odisha in search of work

Communalism13 Mar 2024

Justice And Normalcy Are Far Dreams For Us, Say Hate Crimes Survivors

These are stories of women whose lives and livelihoods remain ruptured months after they faced sectarian violence

Care economy20 Feb 2024

Cost Of Maternal Healthcare Is Pushing Families Into Debt Trap In Maharashtra

Few women in impoverished packets of rural Maharashtra are aware of government welfare schemes or do not have the documents to access them

Data03 Feb 2024

Budget 2024: Empty Declarations, Insufficient Allocations For Key Schemes

Schemes aimed at women did not get the big push they needed, we find

Caste19 Jan 2024

Why A Dalit Woman Is Demanding A Cremation Ground For Dalits In Her Village

In rural Maharashtra, landless Dalit families often struggle to find space to cremate their dead. Pramila Zombade wants that to change

Beats12 Jan 2024

What Justice for Bilkis Bano Means For Feminist Solidarity

Feminist solidarities come in all forms -- legal petitions, street protests, Whatsapp conversations, vigils and signature campaigns – as the Bilkis case shows

Beats10 Jan 2024

Why Maharashtra’s Anganwadi Workers Stir Is Spiralling Into A Livelihood Crisis

Faced with termination and loss of salary, striking Anganwadi workers in the state are living in fear and anxiety

Beats05 Jan 2024

For Young Women, Savitribai Phule’s Legacy Of Rebellion Is Empowering

The bright red slash of kumkum across her forehead has become a mark of feminist solidarity

Caste13 Dec 2023

Freedom, Enterprise And Sisterhood: What Women Find At Chaityabhumi

The annual Mahaparinirvan Din means many things for the women who throng the annual event in Mumbai to mark Dr.Ambedkar’s life and work

Freedom10 Dec 2023

Kabaddi Means More Than A Game For Women Wage Workers Of Rural Maharashtra

A unique sports event gives women from poor homes the chance to defy gender norms and find sisterhood in play

Inequality19 Nov 2023

For These Women Running Public Toilets In Mumbai, The Workday Lasts 15 Exhausting Hours

On World Toilet Day, here are the stories of two women who struggle to keep sanitation complexes in the slums of Mumbai clean and safe

Politics03 Nov 2023

Maratha Women’s Voices Missing In Public Discourse Around Reservation

Even the women who are leading pro-reservation rallies in Maharashtra are using the language of patriarchy

Financial Inclusion02 Nov 2023

Why Women In Maharashtra Are Agitated About Ration-To-Cash Switch

Ration cardholders in various parts of Maharashtra are complaining that they are being denied food grains even before cash transfers have been made to their bank accounts

Premium02 Nov 2023

For Women Hawkers In Mumbai’s Flower Market, The Day Begins In Jungles

Despite the enervating humidity of the mid-October night in Mumbai, Bhimabai Zunjure, 40, is deftly working a mound of mango leaves into neat bunches. She sits on the bridge leading to the Dadar flower market, and looks up from her work to only sell the leaves which are in high demand for the ongoing Navratri rituals.

Health12 Oct 2023

Malnutrition, Poor Rural Public Health Infrastructure Behind Infant and Maternal Deaths In Maharashtra

Sunita Sahebrao Dandekar (28), a Dalit woman from Kharvad village in Hingoli district in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra had to be rushed to Dr. Shankarrao […]

A Woman's Place Is In The Union09 Oct 2023

How A Trade Unionist Used Art To Power Her Unique Trade Union Journey

Culture is a powerful medium to collectivise and empower the working class, says the veteran union leader

A Woman's Place Is In The Union17 Sep 2023

‘I Am Furious With How State, Politicians Neglect The Poor And Marginalised’

In the bastis of east Mumbai, trade union leader Sangeeta Kamble is an ally and friend of the

LGBTQIA+25 Aug 2023

We’re Humiliated, Denied Reduced Bus Fares For Women, Say Trans women In Maharashtra

Every time they ask for the concessional tickets for women on state buses, trans women are asked to furnish gender and identity proof

Inequality17 Aug 2023

Women Waste Pickers Jeopardise Their Lives For As Little As Rs 100 A Day

In July, a woman rag picker died as her foot caught in a waste truck during a desperate scramble to find valuable scrap. Her story reveals the highly hazardous conditions in which waste pickers work for a pittance

Uncategorized30 Jan 2023

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Few women in impoverished packets of rural Maharashtra are aware of government welfare schemes or do not have the documents to access them

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Few women in impoverished packets of rural Maharashtra are aware of government welfare schemes or do not have the documents to access them