Shweta Krishnan
On Jan 1, 2014 when I met Vidya Reddy, one of TULIR’s co-founders, for an interview on consent among teenagers…
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
Dr Suchitra Dalvie best known for her strong pro-choice views and her unflinching support for safe abortion, is also a blogger and a book lover, with deep insights into feminism and women’s rights.
No two human bodies are alike, and our different bodies arouse curiosity. But our fascination for the aesthetics of the perfect human body has historically created a space within art, science and religion for the examination of the ‘abnormal’ and the ‘imperfect’. As a result, some bodies are normalised while others become oddities.
It is almost a year old, but the Abused Goddesses campaign created ripples in the fabric of activism that are…
As a teenager, I played tennis with friends, both male and female. Mostly we played with whoever was available to…
Popular science stories can be exciting, educative and a lot of fun to read. But sometimes we come across that…
Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
In December TARSHI interviewed Anita Ratnam, who is a leading Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer based in Chennai. In her own…
Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
Ruth Vanita is an academic, activist and author, who specialises in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies and South Asian…
Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
Two weeks before India’s Daughter made it to the headlines, I came across this new pledge for Delhi school kids,…