Shreya Raman is an independent journalist based in Mumbai covering gender, health and public policy.
Anti Mining25 Apr 2024
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
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
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
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
Schemes aimed at women did not get the big push they needed, we find
ASHA Workers16 Jan 2024
The relentless cycle of field and paperwork is affecting their mental health, leaving them prone to errors
Beats05 Jan 2024
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
Two in five women fielded by major parties won in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana elections
Beats29 Nov 2023
In the south, Telangana has one of the lowest shares of female MLAs, doing worse than its sibling state Andhra Pradesh
Data23 Nov 2023
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
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
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
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
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. […]