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On Pleasure in the City and the Contestation of Public Space – I
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On Pleasure in the City and the Contestation of Public Space – I

Within the urban sphere, feminist discourse has for the past few decades centred on the constant anxiety and anticipation of violence, which permeates all of women’s movements within South Asian cities. However, something unusual is happening to that discourse in this cultural moment. Feminists are systematically and strategically shifting their attention from the anticipation of violence to the active search for pleasure in public space.

By Moulshri Mohan
March 1, 2016
On Pleasure in the City and the Contestation of Public Space – I
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability
1857 painting. Eight women showing personifications of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotomania and paralysis in a garden of a hospice facility in Paris.
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability

  Bula was not happy at being offered a bath and fresh clothes. Food, she would gladly take – but…
By Gunjan Chandak Khemka
November 1, 2015
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability
On Feminism And Writing: A Path To Self-Realisation And Empowerment?
On Feminism And Writing: A Path To Self-Realisation And Empowerment?

Though writing about feminism and being in a position to voice out one’s opinions about the injustices and inequities that continue to exist in society is still relevant, times are also changing as we begin to understand intersectionality as an all-inclusive concept and the positions we speak from.
By Curated Content
March 16, 2020
On Feminism And Writing: A Path To Self-Realisation And Empowerment?
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
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On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women

Pandemics have a profound psychological impact. They are known to disrupt one’s sense of safety, security, certainty, control, concordance, and…
By Ansha Patel
July 5, 2021
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
Of Words and Worlds
A little child smiling on a blue swing
Of Words and Worlds

Words weren’t always needed – we were content in each other’s quiet company, letting stillness speak. It took me years to realise that their home was my first classroom, and love was the language we spoke.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
June 17, 2025
Of Words and Worlds
Of Socks and Sexuality
An anti-suffragette cartoon. A man washing laundry. On the wall, a board reads, "Everybody works but mother: she's a suffragette".
Of Socks and Sexuality

I grew up with a book cupboard where Paul Gallico’s Love of Seven Dolls rubbed shoulders with Germain Greer’s The…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2015
Of Socks and Sexuality
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality

Marriage also feels complicated when one approaches it through the lens of feminism. Marriage throws in two people and often their families into a system designed to perpetuate patriarchy, subjugate women, and bind men and women (in heteronormative marriage) into strict roles in the marriage.
By Vani Viswanathan
March 1, 2022
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality
A serving of filter coffee in brass tumbler on a wooden table.
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality

Marriage also feels complicated when one approaches it through the lens of feminism. Marriage throws in two people and often their families into a system designed to perpetuate patriarchy, subjugate women, and bind men and women (in heteronormative marriage) into strict roles in the marriage.
By Vani Viswanathan
January 13, 2025
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality
Of “unapologetically flawed” women and feminism-lite: A review of Four More Shots Please!
The poster of Four More Shots Please, featuring four women in Western clothing, posing, laughing, dancing and having fun.
Of “unapologetically flawed” women and feminism-lite: A review of Four More Shots Please!

Four More Shots Please! moves in the right direction when it comes to women (of a particular social stratum), their lives, and feminism at large – even if it takes small, stumbling, baby steps towards it.
By Srishti Gupta
December 1, 2021
Of “unapologetically flawed” women and feminism-lite: A review of Four More Shots Please!
Not Quite Anything
Pressed purple flowers in a book
Not Quite Anything

He didn’t wear his identity on his sleeve, and therefore he seemed more real than most people who did.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
May 19, 2025
Not Quite Anything
Not Quite Anything
Pressed purple flowers in a book
Not Quite Anything

He didn’t wear his identity on his sleeve, and therefore he seemed more real than most people who did.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
January 16, 2026
Not Quite Anything
Nivedita Menon: On Feminism in the 21st Century
Nivedita Menon, wearing a green turtle-neck sweater, sitting on a chair, smiling.
Nivedita Menon: On Feminism in the 21st Century

Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
By Shweta Krishnan
March 16, 2015
Nivedita Menon: On Feminism in the 21st Century
NIVEDITA MENON: ON FEMINISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
NIVEDITA MENON: ON FEMINISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
By Shweta Krishnan
January 2, 2018
NIVEDITA MENON: ON FEMINISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
New Project Sheds Light on Pakistan’s Lesser Known Feminist History
Uzma Noorani, a human rights activist, sitting on a sofa smiling. She is wearing an orange and pink Indian suit, and has her hair falling on her shoulders.
New Project Sheds Light on Pakistan’s Lesser Known Feminist History

[slideshow_deploy id=’7496′] It had been there for decades  — a red, blue and white flag unfurling in the wind, an…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2015
New Project Sheds Light on Pakistan’s Lesser Known Feminist History
MY VAGINA IS DUKHA?
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MY VAGINA IS DUKHA?

Ageing vaginas in ageing female bodies are joked about. But a vagina shouldn’t have the task of pleasing anybody but itself first. To begin with, we’ll have to love and respect our vaginas in order to pleasure them. Love them just as they are. If they feel a little dry, don’t despair. Use a lubricant or a little coconut oil. If my labia are unshapely, they’re still my labia and respond very nicely to gentleness and tenderness. If I don’t love and respect my ageing body, in need of gentle, loving, patient care, then who will, for God’s sake?
By Nighat Gandhi
July 5, 2021
MY VAGINA IS DUKHA?
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