Women & Child Development ministry
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Watch: Meet the world’s oldest power-lifter, Edith Murway-Traina, who turns 100 years old this week
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This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it
Ira Mukhoty
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‘The Illuminated’: A novel that puts grieving and women’s agency in conversation with each other
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Good Girls’: This investigation into the death of two sisters in UP in 2014 is bone-chilling
Maya Mirchandani
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‘A Begum and a Rani’: How Hazrat Mahal of Awadh and Lakshmibai of Jhansi joined the 1857 rebellion
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
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What happens if caste enters the debate on sex work? These ‘notes in the margins’ ask the question
Manjima Bhattacharjya
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Watch: Tennis player Naomi Osaka is now a Barbie doll
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Arundhathi Subramaniam’s new book maps the unique journeys of four lesser-known spiritual travellers
Nikhil Govind
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This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors, often ignored by history
Kavitha Rao
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‘The Begum and the Dastan’: A novel that shows how to write history without condoning it
Isa Ayidh
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Why has Chimamanda Adichie’s essay on social media culture sparked a controversy?
Akanksha Mishra
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‘Of her time, yet timeless’: Why Mannu Bhandari’s stories must be read now and always
Namita Gokhale
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‘Girls talk to boys on phones, run away with them’: UP Women’s Commission member on phones and rape
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Naheed Patel’s debut novel says a lot about its unlikeable narrator, and more about you, the reader
Gayathri Sankar
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Eco India: Armed with microfinance loans, rural women in Kolkata are kickstarting fruit nurseries
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Eco India, Episode 111: Rural women in Kolkata strive for independence by setting up fruit nurseries
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Why are academics researching ‘Critical Aunty Studies’? A US professor of Indian origin explains
Priyali Prakash
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This novel records the epic journey of a woman’s bid to break free after a bad marriage
R Vatsala
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Watch: Teenager falls on railway track trying to escape a group of abusive men
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‘Why Loiter?’ Ten years have passed since the seminal book on women alone in cities was published
Anandi Mishra