Beacon of Hope: A Gendered Homage to the Iron-willed Woman of Assam: Birubala Rabha – Meghna Dutta
It’s been almost a decade since my maternal aunt forwarded an article on Witch hunting and its menace which is…
Gendering Dalit Christian Experience Through Bottu – Jidugu Kavya Harshitha
Bottu, a Telugu term referring to a decorative dot put on Hindu women’s foreheads, between the eyebrows, or in the…
No Nation for Women: Reportage on Rape from India, the World’s Largest Democracy by Priyanka Dubey (2018): A Review by Srilagna Majumdar
Feminism begins with a basic recognition and a simple question. The recognition is that women have adhered to a class…
Why Would I be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Reena Kukreja (2022): A Review by Khushbu Sharma
Marriage as an institution has not received adequate attention from the ‘mainstream’ and ‘traditional’ political science. Owing to its relegation…
Lost and Found: A Closer Look at Laapataa Ladies – Anjali Chauhan
Kiran Rao’s masterful direction presents a narrative that echoes a clever Indian reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” enriching the…
Collaborative Writing on Issues of Media and Gender in India
Collaborative Writing on Issues of Media and Gender in India: A Conversation with Nadja- Christina Schneider and Fritzi-Marie Titzmann Nadja-Christina…
Absence of Women In Public Spaces: The Gendered Appropriation Of A Juice Shop – Prarthana Banarji
The smell of nicotine hits me from two meters away. I read the signboard over the shop again – My…
Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx edited by Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (2023): A Review by Taanya Kapoor
There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to…
Geeli Pucchi: An Intersectional Dystopia – Rashi Chauhan
The short film “Geeli Pucchi” weaves together the lives of two women who share striking similarities in terms of their…
Comprehensive Sex Education in India: Challenges and Possibilities – Madhubanti Talukdar
Earlier in 2023, as a part of a larger project on youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), I…