The Politics Of Looking: How Cultural Imagery Reinforces Domestic Roles   Berger proposed that the reason women are still depicted this way is that the painter assumes that the ‘ideal’ spectator is male, and the woman in the painting is ‘designed to flatter him.’

Who Is Protected And Who Isn’t? Gender And Inequality In India’s New Insurance Law Insurance products themselves reflect and reproduce inequality. Traditional health insurance in India is designed around episodic hospitalisation, consistently missing women's specific needs

Between Stops And Stares: The Silent Battle Kashmiri Women Fight On Public Transport In a country of 1.4 billion people, public transportation is the backbone of daily life. It connects millions to jobs, education, and healthcare, facilitating social inclusion and productivity. Yet for nearly half…

When AI Meets Misogyny: How Deepfakes Challenge Consent And Accountability To tackle the issue of AI non-consensual sexual deepfakes, experts have made a case for a multi-level accountability process that works on regulations with reference to the company providing the AI service, individual…

A City Built Around Men Cannot Work Well For Women The city as it exists today was primarily built for commuters who have someone at home managing care work, who can afford a two-wheeler or a cab, and who travel in one direction during predictable hours. This idea of the typical commuter does not…

Encoded Hierarchies: How Caste Is Reproduced On India’s Digital Platforms  Caste continues to be visible, and casteism continues to thrive across various digital spaces because the transition from physical to digital social spaces did not disrupt caste as the scaffolding that sustains power…

Why Food Waste Is Also A Gendered Issue Food waste will not be reduced fairly by asking the same people to plan and adjust better. The work must move out of women’s memory and into shared practice.

The Logic Behind India’s Labour Systems Punishing Menstruating Women Resembles That Of Witch-Hunting The mass hysterectomies in Maharashtra confirm that the battle over women's bodies is far from a settled historical event. It is an active, modernising enterprise, carried out organ by organ inside…

Heat Stress And Women: India Is Burning, But Who Is Paying The Price? India's climate catastrophe isn't impending; it’s happening now. We are beyond warnings and hypotheticals. India is burning, and people, especially women, are succumbing to the heat.

What Development Costs Adivasi Women In Jharkhand’s Coal Belt Women in Jharkhand's villages have fewer recognised land rights, lower LPG refill rates, and a higher risk of occupational disease than current policies acknowledge. The gap between policy and reality is where the true politics of…

Will Honour-Based Violence Stop With Legislation? Lessons From The United Kingdom For Karnataka Karnataka's law is oriented towards institutional responsiveness, which poses limits on feminist governance if not complemented by structural interventions.

Why Should Girls Have Fun?: ‘Vaazha 3’ And Male Anxieties About Women-Centric Narratives In Cinema The announcement of Vaazha 3 has triggered a wave of digital anxiety that exposes the deep-seated misogyny of the current generation.

What Do Lullabies Remember That History Forgets?  Oral traditions, including folk forms, regional dialects, and lullabies, are soon vanishing, and their chains of transmission are growing increasingly fragile. The accumulated knowledge of generations of women, which mapped seasons and shifts in…

Paternity Leave In India: A Missing Link In The Realisation Of SDG 5 Paternity leave is more than merely a welfare scheme because its introduction is expected to reduce gendered career penalties.

Why India Needs A National Care Policy Beyond The Annual Union Budget Budget 2026-27 proves that piecemeal allocations aren't enough. It is time for India to recognize care as a collective social responsibility.

The Socialist Misogyny: On The Portrayal Of Women Characters In Socialist Hindi Cinema The socialist 'angry young man' established himself as a new kind of feudal lord. As revolutionary as these films may seem to be at first glance, they are hollow when it comes to gender equality.

Desire, Defiance, And Widowhood: A Review Of ‘Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows’ By Balli Kaur Jaswal Erotica is often relegated to the margins of literature. It is considered profane, excessive, and unserious; a form that indulges but does not interrogate. However, Balli Kaur Jaswal turns this…

Voices From The Zenana: A Feminist Reading Of ‘The Humayun Nama’ Humayun Nama is a treasure trove of history, offering a form of knowledge that is not always reflected in official state records.

Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar: An Illustrator Navigating Art, Caste, And Community In Contemporary India The term ‘Dalit art’ and how the association of an artist’s identity with their caste may contribute to a greater alienation from mainstream.

Safety Or Control? Women’s Dress Policing In Indian Educational Institutes And Its False Grounds Epistemological injury occurs when institutions replace lived knowledge with authoritative falsehoods that reorganize social reality.

Reclaiming Public Spaces: How Muharram Majlis Enables Kashmiri Shia Women’s Religious Expression in Public One may argue that public spaces of worship are largely considered male spaces, where women must negotiate with existing patriarchal norms to gain access.

Strategic And Structured State Ideology: India Bans The Voice Of Hind Rajab The absence of The Voice of Hind Rajab from Indian theatres is not just about censorship; it's an exemplification of how the state exercises power over us and everything about us.

When Women Stage Their Own Deaths To Be Heard: Bodily Protest And The Politics Of Being Seen The Ken-Betwa Link Project will put eight villages entirely underwater and break apart twenty-four others.

How Young Women In Hyderabad Negotiate Urban Space, Aspirations, And Mobility Constraints While discussing everyday mobility with young women, each anecdote was laced with irony. Girls talking about ‘adventures’ that were mostly exercises in risk management.

How Welfare Discourse Erodes Women’s Labour Rights In India These schemes promote women’s inclusion without acknowledging them as workers entitled to wages and social security.

The Women Of The Lahore Jail Resistance  Today, the women of the Lahore jail resistance present an uncomfortable question: How many more such stories remain untold? How many Satyavatis, Savitris, Pushpas, Fredas, and Subhadras have we forgotten?

How Women’s Photos Are Lifted From Social Media And Circulated On Reddit And Telegram A casual selfie posted online morphs into strangers’ fantasy on online platforms like Reddit and Telegram as cybercrime against women surged 58% to 76,657 cases in 2025

Womanhood And Love Are Political: An Analysis Of Srishti Chaudhary’s Lallan Sweets What Lallan Sweets depicts excellently is the deconditioning of the patriarchal consciousness that women are trapped by, which keeps them from choosing themselves or putting themselves first. 

From Deshbhakti To Rashtraneeti: Narrative Shift In Delhi Govt Schools  With a focus on nationalism, the Rashtraneeti curriculum is designed for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12

Draft IT Rules In India: Safety For Women Or Threat To Feminist Voices? The introduction of these rules, in reality, is a threat for feminist voices; the rules in specific authorise excessive government control.

Glass Half-Full: Queer Couples After The 2023 Marriage Equality Ruling  Marriage provides critical legal entitlements; protections and financial benefits, such as joint insurance policies; and inheritance rights and tax benefits which are not available to unmarried couples.

From Decriminalisation To Erasure: The Quiet Stonewalling Of Trans Lives In India It is not one law, one policy, or one decision. It is the cumulative effect of shutting down every pathway that could have offered safety.

The Marital Rape Exception: What The Law Says And What It Refuses To See Removing Exception 2 in Section 63 of the BNS requires a bill, a majority vote, and the desire to pass the bill. The legal complexity is low; the political challenge is the true barrier.

MP Poshan Aahar Closures Put Rural Women’s Livelihoods at Risk It is estimated that up to 50,000 people—including direct employees, loaders, transporters, and others in the supply chain—could lose their livelihoods. 

The Silenced Philosophers: The Systemic Erasure Of Women From Philosophy This exclusion was inherent in the way society was structured.

Grappling With Uncertainty: Implications Of The LPG Crisis For Delhi’s Workers Sunita and Madhu both work as domestic workers in an urban, upper-middle-class household in South Delhi. Both earn a modest income of INR 2,500 a month from that single employer. However, of late, their paths have…

Pride, Profit, And Silence: What Queer Capitalism Reveals About Trans Lives In India Queer capitalism thrives on the idea that visibility is enough. But allyship that disappears in moments of crisis is not allyship.

Permission Raj On Campus: Diminishing Space For Dissent In Delhi University Since its establishment in 1922, DU has witnessed student activists become national leaders and transform the face of Indian democracy. However, of late, this culture has faced systematic erosion.

FII Interviews: In Conversation With Filmmaker Aditi Anand FII speaks with filmmaker Aditi Anand on politics, the current state of Indian cinema, and queerness.

Humanin: Cellular Survival, Stress Modulation, and Systems-Level Research Humanin is a short, endogenously encoded peptide that has attracted sustained scientific interest due to its unusual origin, conserved structure, and theorized role in cellular stress regulation. First identified within…

Domestic Workers And The Law That Still Won’t See Them Urban domestic work is the second largest sector of female employment in the country.

Fragments, Shadows, And The Public Gaze: A Review Of Darshana Sreedhar Mini’s Rated A  Rated A does us a great service by examining Malayalam soft porn as a cultural artefact that shaped regional and transnational circuits of desire, love, labour, and media economies.

Burnout As Physical Illness: A Woman Doctor’s Journey To Unbecoming For many women, there's often an understood distribution of expenses that funds their dreams before and after marriage.

Beauty, Bias, And Algorithm: AI Beauty Tools And The Amplification Of Inequality In India AI does not imagine beauty on its own. It learns from data. These datasets overwhelmingly reflect existing social hierarchies.

A Mother’s Unseen Labour In A World That Sees Her Neurodivergent Child As A ‘Problem’ Our society and institutions are yet to understand or accept neurodivergent children wholeheartedly or support them adequately.

The 1921 Chargola Exodus: Plantation Women And The Erasure Of Intersectionality In Colonial History Revolts such as the 1921 Chargola Exodus, led by Adivasi working class women are erased from history.

‘Babasaheb: My Life With Dr Ambedkar’ Review: Care, Companionship And Forgotten History Of Savita Ambedkar Even as we celebrate Dr Ambedkar’s life and work today, the care that went into making his work possible remains conspicuously missing

Right To Care: An Intervention Into The Recent Discussion On Menstruation In India The focus should shift from entitlement to absence (leave) towards entitlement to presence (care)

Chiraiya Highlights The Paradox Of Preaching Equality While Practising Patriarchy When legally recognised forms of sexual violence are met with few legal consequences, the possibility of women who experience sexual violence within the institution of marriage receiving justice remains elusive.

They Voted For Buses, Not Freebies: How Political Mansplaining Erases Women Voters In India For many women, these schemes positively impact their everyday mobility and decision-making power, but these dimensions never appear in electoral commentary.