Busting The Myth: Here’s Why ‘Love’ Marriages Do Not Break ‘Caste-Barriers’
Marriage is one of the most prominent social institutions, especially in a developing country like India where it is seen as a marker of upward mobility, either in terms of social status (caste...
View ArticleIs True Indian Democracy Possible Under Hindutva Nationalism?
Patriotism, according to a very basic definition, is simply a love for one’s country. On the surface, patriotism is a very important and positive part of the world that we live in. In fact, I would...
View ArticleSharjeel Imam, My Brother, These People Never Deserved You
Across the room, my old mother is sitting on a single bed, called a diwan. Her face shows no emotion at the moment. Her wrinkles are hiding the sorrow of her heart. In front of her, I try to keep a...
View ArticleDear Mumbai HC, Do You Think Abuse Is Less Traumatic If It Isn’t ‘Skin-On-Skin’?
Trigger warning: Sexual assault I was 13, and it was the vet. We all have those stories, don’t we? It’s always someone like that. The security guard or the bus conductor. The school janitor or the PE...
View ArticleIndia 2.0? Where WhatsApp University Is A Credible Source, Mythology Is Science
The state of the nation is such that we have devolved from ‘for, of, by the people’ towards ‘far, off, buy the people’, and it’s mandated to make us accept it in a way that little do we realize whose...
View ArticleIn A Pandemic Year, Menstrual Health In India Was Forced To Take A Back Seat
On March 25, 2020, with COVID-19 cases on the rise around the world, the government of India announced its first lockdown. ‘Lockdown 1.0’ effectively barred any movement within and from outside India’s...
View ArticleCoping With Pandemic Stress, Mental Health and Menstrual Disorders in 2020
In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems have faced a pivotal challenge. In India, catering to COVID-19 positive patients and conducting tests consumed the entire system with...
View Article“India Is The Second Most Unequal Country In The World”
Despite decades of development, positioning the country as one of the world’s largest economies, homelessness is still a crisis in India, where wealth inequality is present in staggering proportions....
View Article“हस्तमैथुन के बाद पता चला कि क्यों मैं कभी खुद को सेक्सी फील नहीं कर पाती थी”
मैंने बीस की बड़ी हुई उम्र में हस्तमैथुन करना सीखा था। उससे पहले पैरों को एक-दूसरे से रगड़ कर या किसी सतह पर अपने गुप्तांगो संग चढ़कर कुछ-कुछ होता था, जो मुझे अच्छा लगता था। कभी-कभार मेरे खुद के साथ प्यार...
View Article“I Feel Left Out. I Get My Periods Too, And People Just Assume I Am A Female”
Trigger Warning: Transphobia LGBTQIA+ rights have always been a point of contention in India. With Section 377 (an act that forbids “sexual acts against the order of nature”) being decriminalized in...
View ArticleAre Women Police Officers Safe At Work?
Written by: Sheena Verma Like a lot of other institutions in our country, women are grossly underrepresented in the police force. According to the Bureau of Police Research and Development (as of...
View Article‘Firang’ Log Kya Kahenge: Does Our Sense Of ‘Honour’ End Up Overshadowing...
Anyone who has visited India as a tourist is likely familiar with the word firang, the expression used to denote ‘foreigner.’ But, anyone who has lived in India long enough knows that it is really a...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Kids Realise Their Schools And Textbooks Are Gender Biased?
It all started off as a little experiment in my drawing class on a Saturday, long before our life was halted by the prevailing pandemic. The task for the day was to draw and describe one out of the...
View Articleइमरजेंसी के लिए क्या इंदिरा गॉंधी के साथ ही विपक्ष भी ज़िम्मेदार था?
25 जून 1975 को आज़ाद भारत का काला दिन माना जाता है, क्योंकि 44 वर्ष पूर्व इसी दिन तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री श्रीमती इंदिरा गाँधी ने इमरजेंसी की घोषणा की थी। आज भी जब इमरजेंसी के उस दौर को याद किए जाने पर,...
View ArticleOpinion: Hindutva Is A Political Movement That Intends To Replace India’s...
They say that Hindutva is a social movement. Little do they realize that they’re absolutely wrong. Plain and simple, it’s a political movement to ‘otherise’ Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Dalits,...
View ArticleWhat Rights Are Available To Mental Health Patients In India?
The rights of mentally ill patients have always been a reason for controversy in India. There are a number of cases that have been reported where a mentally ill patient has been treated like an animal....
View Article“If This Is Not Love, What Is?” A Healthcare Worker’s Love Story During COVID-19
The year 2020 has been extremely difficult for most people around the world. While uniting the world in death, morbidity and insecurity, COVID-19 also polarised the world on the basis of their...
View ArticleHow My Friend Was Forced To Marry Within Her Caste During The Pandemic
Love. It’s a feeling as well as a means to socialise with the people we sometimes end up with. It’s a necessity without which life is banal. Indeed, it’s the most beautiful thing that can ever happen...
View ArticleThe Curious Case Of ‘Female Gaze’ In Indian Cinema
Much has been said and written about sexism in Bollywood movies. We can never tire of talking about it because the filmmakers can never tire of making movies with sexist undertones, movies from a ‘male...
View ArticleBulbbul: In Large Manors Live Entitlement, Patriarchy, Violence Against Women
Why would you want to watch a horror film at a time when there is enough horror going on around you and the world over? Netflix’s recent Bulbbul gives you more than one reason to do the contradictory...
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