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March 12, 2022
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender, Special Feature

Emancipation of Women: Many More Miles to Go

Loads of spunky women are performing daring feats which their mothers and grandmother didn’t even dream about. They are making their presence felt. Yet, lots need to be done to ensure...

March 7, 2022
Luz Maria Lopez
Criticism, Gender

The Heritage of Latin American Women Writers

In Latin America, there is a tradition of women’s rights activism. Commitment to gender equality is not new in Latin America. In fact, Latin women’s empowerment has reached beyond...

May 26, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Poem

A Sartorial Rebellion

A powerful and an intense woman-centric protest poem, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. They frowned at the shorts. Women’s legs are immensely desirable. Undesirable hairy legs belong...

December 7, 2020
Sarba Roy
Gender, Mass Media, Social media

Why we Need to Choose the Right Battles against Patriarchy

There was a bandwagon of our Bollywood actors and starlets copy-pasting ‘smash patriarchy’ caption across their Instagram stories in solidarity with Chakraborty. After “nepotism,” “patriarchy” was the next trending...

September 1, 2020
Enakshi J
Gender

Is Feminism a Farce?

Enakshi critiques feminism in a conversation with her husband and family friends. An exclusive for Different Truths. Last week, my husband and I got involved in a debate with...

August 17, 2020
Suchismita Ghoshal
Gender

Feminism: A Vision to Implement Equality

Suchismita GhoshalSuchismita Ghoshal from West Bengal, India is a professional writer, poet, published author, storyteller, content writer, book critic and columnist. She has co-authored for more than 140 anthologies,...

December 31, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cover Story, Dissent, Films, Gender, Mass Media, Sports

Celebrating Women: The Year That Was!

Firebrand feminist, Payal, our columnist, says that from within the murk and gloom of crime against women, there were many who rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix....

October 3, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Simran and Other Bollywood Babes: Coming of age

Even though a slim minority, we are ready to own up to our hidden reality, rather than be the ‘good’ daughter/sister/wife that lives her lives for others rather than...

August 28, 2017
Payal Talreja
Crime, Politics, Religion

Hokey Godmen and the Mask of Celibacy

Self-styled guru and father-figure Huzoor Maharaj Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh ji, is the latest Godman, who simply put could not control his urges and felt that his status in...

July 24, 2017
Samrudhi Dash
Gender, Multiculturalism

Tracing the Roots of Change: Feminism in India and the 50s and 60s Born Women

Feminism being multicultural and diasporic, the needs of women across nations are grossly dissimilar, conditioned by familial, societal, racial, marital, economic, cultural and individual subjectivity. Samrudhi analyses feminism, tracing...