International Women's Day Archives

March 9, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, People

Getting up on the Inside

We profile ordinary women with extraordinary strength. They find the reservoir of strength within themselves, like Yashodhara. Every year, the Women’s Day becomes a cosmetic celebration of already known...

March 10, 2023
Dr. Molly Joseph
Gender, Opinion, Special Feature

International Women’s Day 2023: Let Women Fly High!

Dr Molly deliberates on International Women’s Day and opines that they should be allowed to fly high – a Special Feature exclusively for Different Truths. How much water had...

March 13, 2022
Chirantan Sarkar
Cinema, Gender, Politics, Special Feature

A Narrative on Women, Feminism, Sexuality and Politics in Contemporary India

Sonia Gandhi’s unperturbed state in her husband’s funeral is acceptable to the urban and sophisticated Indians as Sonia Gandhi is cloning a ‘male’ behavior and thus striving to achieve...

March 10, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Literature, Poem

Anthology of Poems on International Women’s Day

Different Truths PoetsMahua Sen, Shree Ganguly, Amita Sanghavi, Rituparna Khan, Parvathy Ramachandran, Tabassum Tahmina Shagugta Hussein, Rajashree Mohapatra, Kamrun Nahar, Lily Swarn, Shail Raghuvanshi, Anoucheka Gangabissoon, Dr. Chandra Prakash...

March 7, 2022
Mitali Chakravarty
Poem

Potent Garden Tales

A woman-centric poem by Mitali, wherein she talks of women from Indian and Western mythologies. A Special Feature for International Women’s Day. Each garden weaves a new story. The...

March 6, 2021
Dr. Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay
Advocacy, Criticism, Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Christine de Pizan Lived by Her Pen and Built a City for Women Six Centuries Back

Christine de Pizan, a French Renaissance writer, was ahead of her times. Feminism as a concept and a terminology emerged four centuries after her. She lived by the pen...

March 8, 2019
Rupa Rao
Advocacy, Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

International Women’s Day: Unequals in Equality – II

Rupa RaoRupa is an army child who schooled in 9 towns in 12 years. She graduated from Jabalpur; did MBA, and Law from Mumbai. Travelling, learning about cultures, imbibing differences,...

March 7, 2019
Rupa Rao
Advocacy, Gender, Special Feature

International Women’s Day: Responses from a Cross Section in the US and India – I

Rupa RaoRupa is an army child who schooled in 9 towns in 12 years. She graduated from Jabalpur; did MBA, and Law from Mumbai. Travelling, learning about cultures, imbibing differences,...

March 7, 2019
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Advocacy, Gender, Special Feature

Women, Wonderous Women!

Ruchira Adhikari GhoshBorn in Guwahati and raised across Delhi and Punjab, Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh is an alumna of Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana. She holds a master’s degree in English...

March 9, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Gender, Special Feature

Hundreds of Rural Women Rally for Equality and Women Rights, near Allahabad

Rural women, under the banner of PMS, raised slogans and held meetings, demanding equality and women rights, at Ghoorpur market, on the outskirts of Allahabad, on the occasion of...

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