Research
Papers and Articles
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Place the child at the centre, The Indian Express, 10th October 2023
Centering girls, not age: Shifting the child marriage law discourse, ZUVA: Journal of Cross-Border Conversations, April-May 2023
The Possibilities Of Legal Redress Against Witch Hunting, Outlook, 1st March, 2023
‘Prosecution As A Rule Not Desirable In Child Marriages; Need To Re-Imagine Remedie’ : Interview With PLD, LiveLaw, 10th April 2021.
Age of consent: challenges and contradictions of sexual violence laws in India, Taylor & Francis Online, 22nd February 2021
Political Feminism in India: An Analysis of Actors, Debates and Strategies, 25th October 2017.
Empowering Women or Curbing Rights?, Economic & Political Weekly, 08th January, 2022
Raising the marriage age is not the solution, Hindustan Times, 23th December, 2021
The child marriage ‘debate’ in India must go beyond artificial binaries: Madhu Mehra, The News Minute, 27th September 2021.
Prosecution As A Rule Not Desirable In Child Marriages; Need To Re-Imagine Remedies’ : Interview With PLD, LiveLaw, 10th April, 2021
Redefining The Early And Child Marriage And Reconsidering Its Elimination In Nepal Through Absolute Criminalization, WOREC, 16 March 2021.
Courageous Battles in Bleak Legalscapes, Indian Express, 1st March, 2021
Should The Age of Marriage for Women be Raised to 21?, The Hindu, 4th September, 2020
Is POCSO Failing Adolescent Sexuality?, In Plainspeak (TARSHI), 1st September, 2020
Eighteen and Over, The Indian Express, 25th August, 2020
Elopements And “Child Marriages”: Do We Know The Full Story?, Feminism in India, 3rd April, 2020
उम्र या फिर क्षमता पर भी केंद्रित हो कानून – मधु महरा, दैनिक भास्कर, 10 नवंबर 2019, (Also available to read in Gujrati and Marathi )
Modi Govt Considers Lowering Marriage Age for Males: Can Indian Men Handle It at 18?, The Print, 30th October, 2019
What We Learned From Honest Conversations With Youth About Sex, Desire And Consent, Youth Ki Awaaz, 9th July, 2019
Supreme Court Verdict on Adultery Opens Door for Fuller Understanding of Women’s Equality, Hindustan Times, 28th September, 2018
The Women’s Movement and Legislative Reform on Violence Against Women, By Madhu Mehra in Indian Feminisms-Individual and Collective Journeys, Edited by Poonam Kathuria and Abha Bhaiya, Zubaan Publishers, 2018
Should Adultery Be a Crime at All?, The Wire, 4th August, 2018
Interview – Madhu Mehra Part II, In Plainspeak, (TARSHI), 16th July, 2018
Interview – Madhu Mehra Part I, In Plainspeak,b (TARSHI), 2nd July, 2018
Stigma, Silence Make Fertile Ground for Juvenile Sex Offences, Hindustan Times, 2nd May, 2018
Don’t Misread SC Judgment, Not All Early-Age Marriages Are Forced, The Print, 20th October, 2017
Make No Mistake, the Chandigarh Incident was An Attempted Kidnapping, Not ‘Stalking’, The Wire, 9th August, 2017
‘Witch-Hunting’ in India. Do We Need Special Laws? Economic and Political Weekly, 26th March, 2016
Reflections on the Limitations of the Call for Full Criminalization of Marital Rape, Kafila, 10th December, 2015
Roundtable on Contemporary Practices of Witchhunting, JNU Centre for Study of Law and Governance, September 2015
MARRIAGE? NOT FOR `KEEPS’, The Times of India, 24th July, 2015
Taking Stock of the New Anti-Rape Law in India, Kafila, 5th May, 2013
Women’s Human Rights, CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law – India’s CEDAW Story, Studies on Human Rights Conventions, 2013
Why the law on sexual offences must be changed, Kafila, 2nd February, 2013
Women’s Equality and Culture in the Context of Identity Politics, HeinOnline, 2007
And Miles to Go… Challenges Facing Women’s Human Rights, Journal of Indian Law Institute, 1998
Exploring the Boundaries of Law, Gender and Social Reform, Feminist Legal Studies, 1998