Women's Narratives
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Sangita Jogi is part of a family of manual labourers. This is what the book of her art says
In ‘The Women I Could Be’, draws the lives she imagines.
Urvashi Butalia
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‘Why Loiter?’ Ten years have passed since the seminal book on women alone in cities was published
A personal account of walking in India’s cities and re-reading ‘Why Loiter?’
Anandi Mishra
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Meet six wise women who shaped the development of philosophy in the West
Recalling the wisdom of ancient women both expands our view of history and reminds us of the gendered elements of modern complex thought.
Dawn LaValle Norman, The Conversation
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Meet three female philosophers you have probably never heard of in the field of big consciousness
We have to ask ourselves why the philosophical ideas of Mary Calkins, May Sinclair, and Hilda Oakeley have been largely forgotten.
Emily Thomas, The Conversation
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Why an Indian girl chose to become an American woman
‘India failed women and India failed me.’
Abhinanda Bhattacharyya, qz.com
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‘Never marry a poet’: A Pakistani feminist on the dangers of the hypocritical intellectual male
Attiya Dawood’s ‘Sindh ki Aurat Sapney Sai such Ta’ debunks an intellectual’s separation of the mind and the body, the personal and the political.
Asad Alvi
Video
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Watch: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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‘It’s totally worth it’: Experiences of women who breastfed their children while at work
August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week. Scroll.in speaks to three women about how they manage their babies’ feeding schedules around work.
Neha Bhatt
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Why this literary heroine could never chill, and why you shouldn’t either
You are drawn to Jo March not because of who she was but because of who you are.
Manasi Subramaniam
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Equals in the jungle, Colombia's women guerrillas brace themselves to go back to a patriarchal world
Demobilised women guerrillas may struggle to enjoy equality once they reintegrate into civilian life in society known for its machismo.
Anastasia Moloney
The Reel
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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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International Women's Day: A Hindi tract with feminist ideals from a time before feminism was known
'Seemantini Updesh', written anonymously and published in 1882, talks to married women about issues such as widow remarriage and female sexuality.
Mrinal Pande
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A campaign reminds us of the missing person on the director’s chair
52 Films by Women asks its users to pledge to watch a film by a woman every week. How does India measure up?
Damini Kulkarni