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Menstrual taboo and misogyny: A scientific reframing
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (756+ words) Published: Apr 15, 2026 12: 00 IST - 5 MINS READ What is your permanent address? What is the world's oldest profession? What is humanity's most heinous crime? Through those three questions one might approach a truth that's been hiding in plain sight for 2 million years....
New Book Releases: Afghan Immigrant Narratives, Indian Healthcare Reform, and Dalit Feminism
16+ hour, 19+ min ago (368+ words) Published: Apr 14, 2026 23: 49 IST - 3 MINS READ About an immigrant family from Afghanistan that does well in America till a tragic death in the family gets the tongues wagging. Told through a chorus of voices, Good People has been blurbed as a…...
Shailaja Paik on Dalit Women, Caste, and the Politics of Erasure in India
23+ hour, 17+ min ago (683+ words) Published: Apr 14, 2026 16: 51 IST Shailaja Paik is a historian of modern India and the first Dalit scholar to receive the Mac Arthur Fellowship in 2024, which is often called the "genius grant. She teaches history at the University of Cincinnati and has…...
How Algorithms Turn Feminism into a Marketable Aesthetic
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (328+ words) Published: Apr 11, 2026 16: 56 IST - 8 MINS READ Call it what it is. Not feminism but its image'high-resolution, frictionless, better looking than the original, which was always a little difficult to be around. What this kills is what Raman calls the dialectic'the productive…...
How Deepti Priya Mehrotra's Walking Out, Speaking Up Recovers the Radical History of Indian Feminist Agitprop
3+ week, 4+ hour ago (266+ words) Published: Mar 25, 2026 11: 49 IST - 7 MINS READ In that sense, it is similar to recent political memoirs such as Aruna Roy's'The Personal is Political: An Activist's Memoir'(2024) and Brinda Karat's'An Education for Rita: A Memoir, 1975-1985'(2024). While personal in form, they are fundamentally…...
Domesticity, Masculinity, and the Unseen Labour of Women: A Critique of Gyanendra Pandey's 'Men at Home"
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (343+ words) Published: Feb 06, 2026 15: 34 IST - 6 MINS READ "The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour." "Labour…...
How The Fire of Defiance Reclaims the Feminist Legacy of the Telangana Armed Struggle
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (143+ words) Published: Feb 06, 2026 15: 49 IST - 7 MINS READ The Fire of Defiance'is a record of unwavering revolutionary will, tempered by gendered perspectives of joy, care, and compassion for all living beings.' In the rule of Nizams'uyyalo Unable to continue vetti'uyyalo Thus it goes…...
Best of 2025: Women, Work, Life, and Power
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (110+ words) From courtrooms to cricket fields, gender inequality in India is institutional. This package traces how policy choices, cultural norms, and economic priorities distribute power, labour, and risk across women's lives. These twelve Frontline stories stay with a simple fact that…...
Frontline's Gender Reporting Sets a Benchmark at Ladli Awards
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (134+ words) Frontline's reporters are recognised for incisive, system-focused gender coverage at the Ladli Media Awards, highlighting structural barriers and feminist transformations across India. Frontline wins three Ladli Awards for gender-sensitive journalism Recognition comes for investigations into barriers in STEM, Kerala's feminist…...
One of the Most Powerful Political Qualities is Curiosity: Paromita Vohra
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (892+ words) Published: Aug 16, 2025 21: 49 IST - 10 MINS READ Working Girls is based on research by the Laws of Social Reproduction project. How did this research shape the documentary, and what was the process of converting it into film? Also Read | The time is…...