When the sight of a handbag greatly upset the patriarchy
When a handbag made news this past week, it would not be out of place…
THE BIG STORY: Words-worth: time to change the word rashtrapati?
(Right, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and left, Droupadi Murmu) When Pratibha Patil was elected the first…
THE BIG STORY: If abortion is legal, why do Indian women still have to ask the courts for permission?
It took a ruling by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court to finally allow an…
Devise policies to help young girls dream big
It’s been seven years since the PM’s Beti Bachao mission to address the child sex…
THE BIG STORY: Why Nagaland continues to shut women out of politics
To understand how sticky attitudes to women in public life can be, you have only…
THE BIG STORY: The problem with judgmental gynaecologists
In her first summer break home from the American university where she was studying, K*…
Can Murmu’s election emancipate the tribals?
The election of Murmu cannot be an empty symbolic gesture, mere lip service to inclusion….
THE BIG STORY: The quiet subversion of women at leisure
Surabhi Yadav/women_at_leisure Sometimes they eat mangoes, in other places they chit-chat while cutting grass. Some…
THE BIG STORY: The importance of being Droupadi Murmu
Few would have heard of the 64-year-old Droupadi Murmu before the BJP announced her name…
THE BIG STORY: Indian women’s unquenchable search for water
The woman in the purple sari climbs one agonising step after another, scaling up the…
THE BIG STORY: Pride Month is as good a time as any to ask, what next?
By Saurabh Kirpal The summer of ’69, as the song by Bryan Adams proclaims, were…
Mithali Raj’s impact went beyond cricket
Raj normalized the idea of girls at play in a deeply patriarchal society where the…