Shreya Raman, Author at BehanBox

Stories08 Sep 2025

Why Trump’s Tariffs Are A Feminist Issue

Women make up for a significant portion of the workforce in India’s four key US export sectors. From long-term wage cuts to increased debt burden, they will be most affected by the 50% tariffs

Caste23 Jun 2025

How India’s Forest Governance Is Increasingly Loaded Against Forest Dwelling Communities

From Uttarakhand to Karnataka, forest officials are violently evicting forest dwelling communities, disregarding their rights to the forests and its resources. The crux of the problem lies in the way India governs its forests

Stories19 May 2025

Drivers, Many Of Them Women, Bear the Cost of BluSmart’s Collapse

Last month, BluSmart, an all-electric ride hailing service abruptly halted its operations. The company was a unique opportunity for its women drivers but lack of labour rights have left them in a lurch

Caste15 May 2025

Why The Forest Rights Act Does Little For Adivasi Dwellers In Urban Jungles

Our cities were once forests, home to indigenous communities. In 2006, the Forest Rights Act was passed to undo the historic injustices against Adivasi communities but in cities, complex legalities get in the way of their fight for their homes

Gender and Climate09 May 2025

In Estimating Heat-Related Income Loss, Workers Should Be Centred

In just the first 18 days of April, Babita Malik, 40, had taken more than a week off from her job as a safai saathi (dry […]

Health06 Apr 2025

Why A Photo-Backed Attendance App Is Distressing Maharashtra’s ASHA Workers

In Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, the municipal commissioner has introduced a mandatory digital attendance system through a private app. ASHA workers, who are not considered government employees, are also forced to mark attendance thrice a day

Data28 Mar 2025

What Time Use Surveys Say And Don’t About Women’s Work

Last month, the government released a factsheet of the key findings from the Time Use Survey conducted in 2024. The survey, with crucial data on how women spend their days is also sensitive to errors

Inequality12 Mar 2025

Why Domestic Workers, In A Unique Labour Market, Need Their Own Labour Law

Since 1959, multiple bills have been introduced to provide legal protection for domestic workers, but all of them have failed. Lack of political will and conflict of interest erode the rights of the most marginalised women in India

Gender and Climate14 Feb 2025

How Natural Farming Is Helping Women Farmers Deal With Climate Realities

Climate disasters are wrecking crops and inflicting heavy losses on farmers. Natural farming methods – organic inputs, multi-cropping, and indigenous seeds – is helping Gujarat’s women farmers find a solution to this crisis

Displacement11 Feb 2025

Why Women Refuse To Give Up The Battle To Save Vadhavan, Site Of India’s Largest Port

Despite 30 years of local resistance, the government has pushed through the approvals for India’s largest port. Behind it lie systemic efforts to dismantle special protection given to an eco-fragile area

Women and Work06 Feb 2025

How Policies On Natural Farming Favour Women With Land, Networks

Improved soil health is one of the key reasons for promoting natural farming. But women who do most of the work on farms, have limited control over land and are unable to invest successfully in it

Politics30 Jan 2025

Health, Environment, Crime: Where Does Delhi Stand?

Ahead of the polls for the Delhi legislative assembly, our data dive exposes how the capital city fares on key parameters

Uncategorized12 Jan 2025

Science, Not ‘Cow Agenda’, Benefits Women Organic Farmers

The government’s push for natural farming is rooted in cow-centric policies. But creating a science-based information ecosystem is key to empowering women farmers

Stories07 Oct 2024

Why ‘Obscenity’ Case Against Kolhapur Dancers Is Policing Women’s Bodies

Four dancers have been booked and 21 have been virtually banned over accusations of ‘obscenity’. Despite court rulings, obscenity laws continue to police women’s bodies

Data09 Sep 2024

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Has Not Caused Any Significant Shifts: Report

Opacity surrounded the outcomes of the BJP-led NDA government’s flagship scheme for girl children. Data on sex ratio and education do not show significant changes

Health20 Aug 2024

What Afreen’s Story Says About Poor Healthcare Funding In India

Two of Delhi’s biggest government hospitals are right in Afreen’s backyard. But her struggle to access healthcare for her husband when he had a stroke underlines why the government needs to spend more on health

Caste07 Aug 2024

Why Justice Remains Elusive For Adivasi Victims Of Sexual Violence

In 2017, a 15-year-old Adivasi student in Odisha’s Cuttack district was raped by a group of men wearing police uniforms as she was returning from the […]

Anti Mining03 Jul 2024

Caring and Fierce, Jailed Adivasi Activist Suneeta Pottam Fights Injustice Everyday In Bastar

She is an Adivasi leader, an activist, a farmer, a migrant labourer and an eager student. But the only descriptor the police have for her is ‘Maoist’

Ground Reports31 May 2024

No Income, Unpayable Debts: The Truth Behind PM Modi’s ‘Lakhpati Didis’

The catchy title apart, the Lakhpati Didi initiative has not really been able to increase income generation among beneficiaries

Ground Reports16 May 2024

‘Our Financial Situation Is So Bad That Our Relatives Have Stopped Visiting’

Carrying the burden of an eight-year-old debt, 50-year-old Karuna Kale from Madhya Pradesh’s Barwaha almost broke down while talking about the financial condition of her household

Anti Mining25 Apr 2024

Diversion Of Forests Hits Adivasi Women The Hardest. Here Is Why

In 15 of the 86 constituencies where the general elections will be held tomorrow, more than 30% of voters are impacted by the Forest Rights Act. We look at how the loss of forests impacts the lives and livelihoods of Adivasi women

Gender Based Violence18 Apr 2024

Those Killed Include Innocents, Say Adivasis Of Recent Anti-Naxal Operation In Bastar

A fortnight before polling in Bastar, security forces killed 13 persons in what it called the biggest anti-Naxal operation since 2017. But at least two of those were Adivasi villagers, one of them a young deaf girl

Ground Reports25 Mar 2024

How Young Women In India Are Carving Space For Themselves In Politics

They don’t helicopter into villages and vamoose. We speak to young women who are political newcomers on how they ensure constant interaction with people

Gender and Climate12 Feb 2024

In A Forest Amidst Mumbai’s Concrete Jungle, Adivasi Women Are Demanding Their Right To Shelter And Dignity

An ambitious road project is likely to swallow many Adivasi homes in Aarey forest, already the site of many other development projects

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

ASHA Workers16 Jan 2024

How ASHA Workers’ Overwhelming Workload Impacts India’s Healthcare System

The relentless cycle of field and paperwork is affecting their mental health, leaving them prone to errors

Beats05 Jan 2024

Their Roles Ambiguous, ASHA Workers Fight For The Right To Contest Elections

There is state pressure to dissuade frontline health workers from fighting for political office even though they are still hired as ‘honorary volunteers’

Data05 Dec 2023

After Recent Elections, Women’s Share Increases In 4 State Assemblies

Two in five women fielded by major parties won in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana elections

Beats29 Nov 2023

Despite New Statehood, Female Representation In Telangana Lags Behind

In the south, Telangana has one of the lowest shares of female MLAs, doing worse than its sibling state Andhra Pradesh

Data23 Nov 2023

Women Win In Tougher Poll Fights In Rajasthan, Yet Don’t Get Enough Chances

In the last two decades of their rivalry in Rajasthan, only around 10% of the candidates picked by the BJP and Congress have been women

Disability12 Oct 2022

Why Elderly Women With Disabilities Are At Highest Risk of Abuse, Neglect

Forced to depend on their family for support and care because of social norms and ineffective government policies, elderly women with disabilities are highly vulnerable to […]

Abortion Rights09 May 2022

Abortion Is Legal In India But Rules, Stigma Make It Hard To Access

At 25, and into the fourth year of an abusive marriage, N*, discovered that she was eight weeks into an unwanted pregnancy. She approached a doctor […]

Inequality10 Feb 2022

Tangled In Red Tape, The Disability ID Card Process Is Steeped With Gender Barriers

Khushi, 18, was elated to get admission to her dream Delhi University college to study English literature. Then, the teen, who was diagnosed with a visual […]

Abortion Rights11 Nov 2021

India’s Laws Fail To Uphold Abortion Rights Of Women With Disabilities

Arpita Roy Sengupta was 22 years old when her parents, much against her wishes, arranged her marriage in 2007 with Alok*, a deaf person like her. […]