Reading list: India’s women writers who have been smashing patriarchy for generations

Meet a robust line of feminist writers from India who have been writing against male injustice since the sixth century BCE.

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Dec 01, 2018 · 12:30 pm

How Brahma Kumaris rose from a small spiritual group in pre-Partition Sindh to a global organisation

The women-led organisation was, ironically, founded a man – Lekhraj Khubchand Kriplani, better known as Dada Lekhraj.

Zahida Rehman Jatt

· Mar 03, 2018 · 11:30 am

Video: Rukhmabai Raut, the woman in today’s Google doodle was one of India’s first feminists

She wrote and advocated for gender rights, particularly on issues of child marriage and women's education.

Smitha Nair

· Nov 22, 2017 · 05:39 pm

Was Rabindranath Tagore a feminist? Read his essay ‘Woman and Home’ from 1922 to find out

May 9 marks the poet-philosopher’s 156th birth anniversary.

Rabindranath Tagore

· May 09, 2017 · 05:30 am

An Indian feminist hated the gender stereotypes in nursery rhymes, so she wrote her own

Kamla Bhasin’s rhymes tell of working moms, stay-at-home dads, and young girls who play sports just like the boys.

Suneera Tandon, qz.com

· Apr 03, 2017 · 07:30 am

Photographer Sheba Chhachhi on why women need their own day of solidarity

Chhachhi’s works ‘traverse early and recent feminist pathways, and engage with different durations’.

Chanpreet Khurana

· Mar 08, 2017 · 11:30 am

Where are all the queer feminists on Wikipedia?

Women and men getting together at edit-a-thons in Delhi to fix a hole in the online encyclopaedia.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Dec 08, 2016 · 11:30 am

A walk through history: The forgotten women who helped shape Delhi

Structures that are a testament to the role of women in India’s history remain anonymous or neglected.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Sep 30, 2016 · 11:30 am

As Mumbai feminist group Majlis turns 25, co-founder resigns with a scathing open letter

Filmmaker Madhusree Dutta, who co-founded Majlis with prominent lawyer Flavia Agnes, has publicly announced her resignation from the trust.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 25, 2016 · 07:45 pm