5+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1166+ words) In yet another setback for labour protection in India, the Supreme Court of India recently declined to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the introduction of a nationwide menstrual leave policy for working women and female students. The petition,…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (823+ words) This is an extract from a letter written by Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which conferred the award to her in 2023 for her relentless activism against the rights of Iranian women. Mohammadi was languishing in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (121+ words) Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold and imaginative sophomore film, The Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley in the title role, carries echoes of the Gothic origin of resurrection stories, but the film displaces the action to 1930s Chicago, where gangsters, jazz, corruption, and unspoken cruelties…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (563+ words) New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) Bollywood star Deepika Padukone is back at the centre of a social media storm with a tourism campaign for Abu Dhabi in which she is seen wearing wearing a hijab as she walks through the Sheikh…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (516+ words) At a theatre fest in Kerala, "Feminist Manifesto" brings Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"s ideas to life; it was stirring and spectacular, but not without its blind spots It was the final day of the week-long rural theatre festival…...