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Frontline, the fortnightly English magazine from The Hindu, since 1984. Covering politics, social issues, environment, finance, business, economy, science, technology, art, culture, movies, entertainment, and social media.
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Wages for Housework: Can Cash Transfers Empower Indian Women?
3+ week, 6+ day ago (24+ words) India’s cash transfers to women are reshaping welfare and unpaid labour, but feminists debate their limits, electoral use and power to change gender relations....
Yesteryear dissects the tradwife fantasy
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (7+ words) Yesteryear critiques tradwife culture and hidden labour....
Debi Chatterjee on Caste, Dalit Literature and Rights (2026)
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (1072+ words) Published: May 10, 2026 12:26 IST Debi Chatterjee retired as professor of international relations at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 2012, after more than three decades of teaching. Over that career, she moved between disciplines—political science, sociology, anthropology, and human rights—and between roles:…...
Dalit History Month: Tamil Writer Bama on Ambedkar, Dalit Unity, and the Politics of Identity
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (340+ words) Frontline Magazine In this episode of Frontline Conversations, part of a special interview series for Dalit History Month, acclaimed Tamil writer Bama reflects on over three decades of Dalit writing, the enduring legacy of B Ambedkar, and the evolving realities…...
Menstrual taboo and misogyny: A scientific reframing
4+ mon, 4+ week 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
4+ mon, 4+ week 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
4+ mon, 4+ week 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 MacArthur Fellowship in 2024, which is often called the “genius grant”. She teaches history at the University of Cincinnati and has written…...
How Algorithms Turn Feminism into a Marketable Aesthetic
5+ mon, 2+ day 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…...
How Deepti Priya Mehrotra’s Walking Out, Speaking Up Recovers the Radical History of Indian Feminist Agitprop
5+ mon, 2+ week 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…...
Domesticity, Masculinity, and the Unseen Labour of Women: A Critique of Gyanendra Pandey’s 'Men at Home"
7+ 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…...