In Striking Verse, How the Women Saints of Bhakti Movement Told Their Stories
While celebrating their devotional verses, it is important to acknowledge the inequities they battled too.
An Army of Women Is Building Venezuela’s Housing Revolution
In Caracas, an army of self-trained women are working to build their own homes while they transform the reality around them.
Every Right Defended Is the Rights Discourse Extended; Every Right Not Defended Is Allowing Tyranny to Spread
Amina S., a French entrepreneur and activist who had to leave France because of the discrimination she faced for wearing the hijab, discusses the intersection of secularism, democracy, cultural nationalism and individual liberty.
Clara Zetkin and the Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day
German socialist Clara Zetkin founded International Women’s Day to acknowledge working women’s contribution to the struggle against capitalism. It’s no wonder that Clara Zetkin’s legacy has been erased by the corporate sponsorship of #IWD.
Hasn’t Been Easy for These Women Who Dared the System and Worked Towards ‘Change’
It has not been easy for Savitribai and Fatima, for Nagarathna and Bilkis and for several other women who have dared the system and worked towards change! These are women who have risen against all odds, ploughed the lonely path and courageously decided to embrace equity.
The Patriarchy’s Curfew Won’t Save Indian Women from Violence
When it comes to Indian women, let us not take away the agency of the living – and let them exercise choice – and the dignity of the dead – those whom the system failed.
Women’s Work and Wages Continue at Abysmal Levels
The latest official labour force survey shows 20% to 50% gap between the earnings of men and women.
Let Me Make an Admission: I’m Privileged, Therefore I Am
The benefits that accrue from the accident of my birth in an upper caste household are emotional, psychological, social, and economic.
International Women’s Day Has a Radical History Rooted in Socialism
International Women’s Day has a very long progressive history that’s often not well known.
Muslim Women’s Identity Amidst Religion and the State
Why does the State always have a protectionist stance toward Muslim women? The Muslim woman has always been a pawn in the hands of the community and now the State.