Women
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‘Our Alli has never needed a man’: Poems on the griefs inflicted on women in the Mahabharata
K Srilata
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Business stories: How OON, a women-led integrated marketing communications collective, was founded
Rekha Rao
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This book studies gender in Bengal’s nationalist policies (and the evolution of the ‘bhadramahila’)
Aparajita Dasgupta–Sengupta
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‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas
Lopamudra Basu Feroza Jussawalla Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Soniah Kamal
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This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
Gayathri Prabhu
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What were the early days of women’s cricket in India like (and how did the Railways team dominate)?
Abhishek Mukherjee
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How case against Muslim teen accused of ‘love jihad’ fell apart in UP court
Ayush Tiwari
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From the memoir: Radiologist Sneh Bhargava writes about being the only woman director of AIIMS
Sneh Bhargava
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Guided by the light: A woman writer on sisterhood and modernity in the Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’
Iffat Nawaz
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Rabindranath Tagore at 164: Translator Sharmistha Mohanty on the writer’s profound empathy for women
Sharmistha Mohanty
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‘Women need their own rooms in their own worlds’: Deepa Bhasthi on translating the female language
Deepa Bhasthi
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In a new book, a lawyer lists the legal actions women can take against online rape and death threats
Manasi Chaudhari
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A new book records the resilience and contributions of Bibi Sahib and other women in colonial Punjab
Harleen Singh
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Passion, integrity and self-reliance: Why Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a heroine for our times
Matthew Sussman, The Conversation
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The three pillar effect holding back South Asian women from transforming their economies
Nirma Sadamali Jayawardena, The Conversation
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Eternally young: Women in their 20s grapple with impossible beauty standards
Nadine Shanahan, The Conversation
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Women’s Day: A reader’s guide to the 16 books on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist
Scroll Staff
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Pakistan: Single women disrupt marriage market dynamics
Kulsoom Hisam, Dawn.com
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India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
Rituparna Chatterjee
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‘Girls Who Stray’: Anisha Lalvani’s debut novel about a young woman’s missteps lands on unsure feet
Veeksha Vagmita