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
Trending
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Journalist Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV
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Evolution doesn’t need millions of years. Tiger snakes on an island have evolved over just a century
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Ten students suspended in Ajmer university for watching BBC documentary on Gujarat riots
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Odisha Health Minister Naba Das shot at by police official, taken to hospital
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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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: Former Pakistan cricket captain Sarfaraz Ahmed sings for cricketer Shan Masood at his wedding
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‘Space travel will let us live forever’: Video of writer Ray Bradbury’s 1974 interview resurfaces
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‘Let’s make bubble tea’: Interactive Google Doodle marks third anniversary of boba tea emoji launch
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Watch: American black vulture spotted in Delhi-NCR region in rare sighting
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Eco India: How this green school in Jaisalmer is also championing girls education
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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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Why you can’t keep Anurag Kashyap down
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Start the week with a film: ‘Force Majeure’ is a chilly satire about modern marriage
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ review: Sincere, plodding effort to debunk WhatsApp myths about the Mahatma
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‘Pathaan’ review: Shah Rukh Khan lights up an entertaining spy thriller
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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