Voices
Going Beyond the Crisis of Care: Women in the Post-Pandemic Labour Market
When World War II started, one of the important changes in the labour market was a sudden increase in the…
By Ritwika Patgiri
Girls, Shame, and Favourite Vegetables
“It’s rather unfortunate that our educational institutions and systems are so reluctant to understand, or they simply ignore, the importance of providing our youth with CSE that can help erase the shame and crippling self-doubt around sexuality, bodies, reproductive rights and wellness.
By Gayathri M R
August 25, 2023
General and not so General
The relationship between caste and sexuality has always been a complicated one, one that is performed through socially sanctioned practices,…
By Aiman Khan
October 16, 2017
Gender and Sesame Street
My mother was not a role model for me when I was growing up – not in the traditional sense…
By Sashwati Banerjee
October 1, 2014
Gaps and Slippages: Creating Queer Spaces in the Online K-Drama Fandom(s)
Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, has perhaps been South Korea’s most prominent cultural export – first touching China and Japan,…
By Chitrangi Kakoti
From Village to City: ‘Housemaids’ and their Sexual Desires
A few days ago, my cousin saw Anita masturbating while going to sleep. And while having a discussion around this, I realised how, even after its being noticed, nobody wanted to talk about finding ways to discuss it with her in a pleasure-affirming manner.
By Medha Kalsi
From the periphery to the core: How can we hear more women’s voices from rural India?
Neha is a proud, beaming 16-year-old. Standing on the lawns outside Delhi’s India Gate, she speaks to the camera about…
By Gram Vaani
From Silence to #MeToo
Not everyone, however, is taken in by #MeToo. Some women feel that they shouldn’t have to make a public show of their pain for their suffering to be acknowledged. For others, sharing their story in such a public fashion exposes them to further online harassment from those who think of the hashtag campaign as a sympathy-seeking movement. Then there are those who are downright unimpressed, feeling that it unfairly casts sexual harassment as a man vs. women problem.
By Divya Swaminathan
November 1, 2017
From Love to Justice: Why Edward Carpenter Matters Today
Though lovers often live in their version of paradise cut off from the wider world, as far as Faiz is concerned, the world of suffering humanity intrudes. This world will intrude because at the end of the day romantic love is only one of the bonds which makes us human.
By Arvind Narrain
December 5, 2016
From Compliance to Critique: Localising Masculinity Work Through Feminist Praxis
…we must also address men’s relationships with their spouses, other men, women and children in the community, and importantly, their own emotional selves to transform fatherhood. Therefore, engaging with men as fathers must involve a holistic understanding of their socialisation, emotional world, and position within patriarchal structures.
By Anand Pawar
From Blissful Ignorance to Unlearning Inequality
As individuals who are now privileged enough to address issues concerning mental and emotional health as compared to our parents and the generations before them, it is still quite disturbing to observe emotional/ psychological violence happening to women at different levels.
By Aditi Mishra
March 18, 2024
Friendships Between Women: Norms, Intimacies and Imaginations
It has troubled me for a long time now that there are hardly any Bollywood block busters that focus on…
By Shruti Arora
February 1, 2018
Friendship, Sexuality and the Auden Group
Friendship has always remained a thinly coded term for same-sex love within queer discourses, and early writings in favour of…
By Kaustav Bakshi
February 15, 2018
Friends of Paper, Friends of Flesh
That’s what books do, they open up the world to new possibilities, let you live a life bigger than your own.
By Ambica Naithani
November 17, 2025