The Finger Wrap: Shades, Shuttlecocks, Storm and more

The BJP’s Anandiben Patel, Modi’s successor, was sworn in last week as the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat. All eyes are now on the 73-year-old former schoolteacher, Gujarat’s ‘Iron Lady’. They may say she has no charisma, but she can certainly rock a pair of shades, yo.

How long has it been since you last watched Hum Aapke Hai Kaun? If you think it’s time for a revisit, try this.

Meet Seeta Devi, one of India’s many ‘polio aunties’ whose work keeps children free of the disease.

A woman from Nagaland was allegedly slapped and molested after she objected to a Delhi lawyer, Inder Narayan, making lewd comments about her. When Narayan was produced in court after being arrested, sickeningly, a large gang of lawyers attacked the woman’s friends on the premises of the Tis Hazari court.

The ladies of badminton have been powering through the Uber Cup championship, even if the men’s team has been less than spectacular in the Thomas Cup.  For the first time ever, the women’s team made an exciting entry into the semi finals, and won a bronze.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a woman journalist reporting from a conflict zone? Here’s some insight from four photographers who talk about their work and how their gender factors into it.

Even as pressure has been mounting for an inquiry into cases of sexual assault at the UK’s controversial privately-run Yarl’s Wood detention center for immigrants, a whistleblower has alleged that in 2012 there was another case of sexual assault by staff on a vulnerable detainee with psychological issues, who was then deported. The whistleblower also alleged that vulnerable women were being deported without their mental health being properly assessed.

‘My Maid’, a Twitter account in Brazil, highlights Brazilians’ racist, misogynist attitudes to domestic help by retweeting people’s horrible tweets about their maids.

Seen the latest X-Men movie? Irritated by how few juicy parts there are for women in a movie full of mutants or by how little you see of Raven/Mystique in the movie? Storm may have little to do in the new movie, but she’s all set to appear in her own comic, starting July. And she may just be Marvel’s most important superhero.