Between Resistance and Responsibility: Reimagining Rural Womanhood through Nakta – Anurag Kumar Bauddh
Introduction Growing up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh, I witnessed many rituals and traditions that perplexed and at…
‘Willful Girls’ and Marriage: Reading Gender Equality in Conjugal Relations in Mr & Mrs Mahi & Savi – Deblina Dey
Films can be a powerful tool to confront unequal social relations by offering alternate worldviews. Here, I discuss two films…
Matchmaking in the Digital Space: A Conversation with Leena Pujari
Leena Pujari is a feminist sociologist and researcher who believes in teaching for social transformation and in nurturing critical and…
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…
Munu And Marriage: Expectations, Constraints and the Question of Women’s Autonomy – Sanjib Kalita
My mother called. She asked me if I wish to talk to Munu Ba[i]. She gave the phone to her.…
‘Do You Know How to Cook?’ Reflections On Women’s Expected Roles in Arranged Marriages – Riona Basu
Early in 2022 a section of social media users who identified themselves as men’s rights activists wanted a marriage ban…