Women - Different Truths

August 23, 2016
Urooj Murtaza
Anthropology, People

Kalash: The Sole Pagan Tribe of Pakistan

The Kalash people have links with Greece. They dance around nighttime fires; they make wine and indulge in ancient Olympic sports such as wrestling and shotput. In her indepth report, Urooj...

August 11, 2016
Michelle Yost
Activism, Gender

Poor Bangladeshi Women sans Farming Tools Clawed the Soil to Grow Paddy

Michelle shares her experiences of empowering homeless women and children. The project We Help is not a charity. It believes in making people think out of the box. Lease land...

August 10, 2016
Lily Swarn
Humour, Potpourri

Cantonment Calling: Foot in the Mouth

There are some hard lessons to be learnt as an Army wife. Lily reveals tongue in cheek that her transformation from a fire brand student leader to a robot like...

August 4, 2016
Sehar Siddiqi
Poem

Blood of my Son

A protest poem by Sehar about the bloodstained kurta of a father with the blood of 13-year-old son. Blinded Children Maimed youth Scarred men Disillusioned women Bloody chaurahas* Silent...

July 24, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Gender

Ordinary Women with Extraordinary Dreams: The Engine of Social Change

The fire in the belly and an ardent wish to do something worthwhile became the driving force for three women, our next door neighbour kind of girls, to step out...

July 23, 2016
Sukanya Juno Biswas
Opinion, Politics

Thronging without Thongs: 100 Naked Women Protest against Trump

Trump is about personal divisiveness. He is a vile being who feeds on fear, who follows the policy of divide and rule, and he is succeeding. Along with sunup 100...

July 10, 2016
Uday Biradar
Gender, Science & Technology

Is Maneka Gandhi’s Anti-troll Initiative Defensive?

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi launched an anti-trolling campaign for checking online harassment of women recently. There has been quite a bit of reaction from...

July 2, 2016
Rhiti Chatterjee Bose
Conflict Resolution, Cover Story, Crime, Gender

Is our Silence Perpetrating the Rape Culture?

We live in insensitive times. Trying to be smart, we often land up being rude. The Now Gen, uses cuss words at the blink of an eye. The F-word has...

June 5, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A Cosmetic Trip to Steamy Nirvana

Mamta’s comments on the synthetic beauty business and its promised Nirvana in this poem. In an upmarket high rise A swanky hall With cubicles minuscule Mirrors and lights of every...

June 1, 2016
Duska Vrhovac
Poem

Isidora

Duska pays her tribute to one of 20 th century’s important woman writer, Isidora.* Fifty years, fifty summers, you have lain here, my Isidora, knitting moonlight in Topčider Cemetery,...

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