These profiles of Indian women who fought to become physicians remind us how they were erased

Priya Balasubramanian

· Aug 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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· Aug 06, 2021 · 04:30 pm

This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it

Ira Mukhoty

· Aug 02, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Illuminated’: A novel that puts grieving and women’s agency in conversation with each other

Saloni Sharma

· Aug 01, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘The Good Girls’: This investigation into the death of two sisters in UP in 2014 is bone-chilling

Maya Mirchandani

· Jul 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘A Begum and a Rani’: How Hazrat Mahal of Awadh and Lakshmibai of Jhansi joined the 1857 rebellion

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

· Jul 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

What happens if caste enters the debate on sex work? These ‘notes in the margins’ ask the question

Manjima Bhattacharjya

· Jul 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

Watch: Tennis player Naomi Osaka is now a Barbie doll

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· Jul 13, 2021 · 04:25 pm

Arundhathi Subramaniam’s new book maps the unique journeys of four lesser-known spiritual travellers

Nikhil Govind

· Jul 10, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors, often ignored by history

Kavitha Rao

· Jul 02, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘The Begum and the Dastan’: A novel that shows how to write history without condoning it

Isa Ayidh

· Jun 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Why has Chimamanda Adichie’s essay on social media culture sparked a controversy?

Akanksha Mishra

· Jun 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always

Namita Gokhale

· Jun 16, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Girls talk to boys on phones, run away with them’: UP Women’s Commission member on phones and rape

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· Jun 10, 2021 · 02:27 pm

Naheed Patel’s debut novel says a lot about its unlikeable narrator, and more about you, the reader

Gayathri Sankar

· Jun 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Eco India: Armed with microfinance loans, rural women in Kolkata are kickstarting fruit nurseries

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· Jun 06, 2021 · 08:55 am

Eco India, Episode 111: Rural women in Kolkata strive for independence by setting up fruit nurseries

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· Jun 05, 2021 · 03:25 pm

Why are academics researching ‘Critical Aunty Studies’? A US professor of Indian origin explains

Priyali Prakash

· Jun 03, 2021 · 06:30 pm

This novel records the epic journey of a woman’s bid to break free after a bad marriage

R Vatsala

· May 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Teenager falls on railway track trying to escape a group of abusive men

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· May 12, 2021 · 03:47 pm