My discovery of erotic poems was, as they put it, ‘by chance’. A friend of mine had suggested a book…
Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
“हालांकि हिन्दी में रेप के लिए शब्द है (बलात्कार) फिर भी महिलाओं द्वारा इसका प्रयोग कदाचित ही होता है। इसके…
… and the Award goes to… … Vasilyev’s wife … … for having birthed the maximum number of children. I…
When I was working on finalising my dissertation topic during my Masters, I was quite apprehensive about what I would…
Ruth Vanita is an academic, activist and author, who specialises in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies and South Asian…
[slideshow_deploy id=’5490′] To some Amrita Sher-Gil is the ‘Indian Frida Kahlo’. This month we feature five of her paintings which show women…
I recently attended a talk titled ‘Streeshakti’ at the Jaipur Literature Festival. One of the speakers Lata Sharma, a Rajasthani…
By Indian Home Maker for her personal blog Here’s an article from TOI that I think encourages sexist fallacies. Great…
“In Hindi, though there is a word for rape (balaatkaar), it is rarely used by women. Instead they say izzat…
She leans over casually, across me, and rummages in her bag for a moment. I push away the spark of…
Two weeks before India’s Daughter made it to the headlines, I came across this new pledge for Delhi school kids,…
What does it mean to be a woman? Are you born one, or as Simone De Beauvoir writes in The…