Women Who Make Us What We Are
The quiet, unstated strength of the people flow out of the millions of incarnations of Mother India.
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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.
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Top 1% Grab Twice as Much New Wealth as Everyone Else Combined
Oxfam study shows extreme wealth and extreme poverty are increasing simultaneously, worldwide.
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For Many Indian Women, Lack of Toilet Access Poses Health Risks
For low-income residents across India, and particularly women, bathroom use is dictated by poor toilet infrastructure.
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Pakistani Feminist Comedians Challenge Taboos
Despite all odds and social barriers, women in Pakistan are using comedy to break gender stereotypes, share personal experiences and challenge patriarchal practices.
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Periyar Ignored? Dravidian Anti-Brahminical Polity ‘Failed to Uphold’ Women’s Rights
Can “annihilation of caste” also break the oppressive shackles of women? A recent lecture by V Geetha, eminent feminist writer and social historian, suggests there is no such one-to-one relationship between the two.
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Women Thwarted At Every Step in Search of Justice Even as Gender Crimes Spike
4,28,278 cases of crimes against women were registered across India in 2021. However, the on-ground situation is worse than anyone’s expectations.
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Shelley’s Revolutionary Poetry
Shelley was probably the greatest English Romantic poet. The critic Harold Bloom described him as “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem”. But he was much more than that: he was also a passionate revolutionary.
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‘India Only Seems to Wake Up to Reality When There is an Atrocity’
On the 10th anniversary of the brutal gang-rape of a physiotherapy student in New Delhi, human rights activist and senior advocate Indira Jaising looks back at a decade of change.
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Violence Against Women and Girls Is Not Cultural but Criminal
Violence against women and girls remains the most pervasive human rights violation around the world. Explicit and implicit cultural legitimation for violence against women has to end if we are to deliver on the promise of a socially just and ecologically sustainable world order for everyone.
