Swati Shikha

Swati Shikha is a journalist and development practitioner based in Jharkhand. She has previously written for the Times of India, Outlook India and TCN. She has been working on the issues of gender and justice for almost a decade with the state government, and organisations such as the British Asia Trust, Indian Association of Women's Studies, YP Foundation and SEWA Bharat. She covered the wrestlers' protests from the ground and was felicitated by the National Commission for Women in 2019 for groundbreaking work on menstrual health in Jharkhand.

The Jig is Up!

Each year millions of Indians celebrate the killing of an Asura King by Hindu Goddess Durga for ten days. The Hindu festival, set in casteist narratives has us convinced that the evil is an outsider. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data