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.
Women are ‘Sinners’, Cursed to Bleed
Menstruation remains a grave concern in India, especially in rural areas. The stigma attached to it has only witnessed a rampant increase. Many women are not even aware of the dreadful consequences of not maintaining hygiene during that time of the month.
The Fragile Sanctity of Being Female
From workplaces to household responsibilities to partnership equations, women are rising up the ranks to ask for an equal space. But society won’t have it. So we have suppression, oppression and pushback in overt and covert ways.
Muslim Women Counterpublics: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
Muslim women respond to political trauma by exercising their citizenship and care work beyond the family. Their activism is not driven by patriarchal indoctrination, but by a belief that one cannot lose hope in the possibility of justice.
Women Who Make Us What We Are
The quiet, unstated strength of the people flow out of the millions of incarnations of Mother India.
Remembering Afghanistan’s Revolutionary Experiment
A look at the achievements of the Saur (April) Revolution in Afghanistan of 1978, before it was overthrown by vicious jihadists backed by imperialist powers.