Algorithmic Inequalities: How AI Hiring Tools Replicate Old Workplace Biases AI-powered hiring tools are deeply embroiled in exacerbating existing inequalities in the labour market.

“Boy Trapper” To Boycott: Why India Still Punishes Love In 2026  In India, the harsh reaction to love marriages transgressing religion, caste and class divisions, shows how deeply entrenched endogamy is.

Recognised After Death: Feminist Readings Of Nandita K.S. And Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Death certainly becomes a site of resistance against everything that left them unheard in their lives and in their poems.

From Allegation To Alibi: The Architecture Of Belief And Disbelief In The Shamik Adhikary Case Shamik's case shows how male political victimhood borrows the language of justice, while quietly shutting the door on justice for women.

Women In Science And The Leaky Pipeline: Why Representation Drops After Education As February 11 marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the question is no longer whether women belong in STEM, but whether STEM institutions are willing to change enough to keep them.

Are ‘Green Jobs’ Just Old Blue-Collar Jobs? Decoding Gendered Labour In Solar And Waste Management In India The focus on green jobs is not to sustain the environment but to shape public opinion that government is working to protect the environment.

Beyond National Girl Child Day: Are Menstrual Innovations Reaching Adolescent Girls In India? Innovation won't be complete unless menstrual health is addressed as a fundamental public health and education concern

The Right To An Unhappy Ending: Defending Unresolved Narratives In Feminist Literature Dalit women’s writing in India has consistently denied the soothing closure demanded of narrative.

Changing The Rules Of Seeing: Sylvia Sleigh’s Male Nudes The female gaze, in Sleigh's hands, is inseparable from the ethics of friendship, from networks of reciprocal care that precede and frame the act of representation.

What The 2026 UGC Regulations Revealed About Caste, Merit and Savarna Victimhood The decision to halt the UGC regulations is just another attempt at denying basic dignity to Dalits and keeping the caste system in place.

“Don’t Post That”: How Family Rules Keep Millions Of Indian Women Silent Online For many women, the phone is not fully their own—it comes with family oversight, especially over what they post or view.

An Intersectional Feminist Analysis Of The Union Budget 2026-27 This intersectional analysis of the 2026-27 Union Budget focuses on how women and girls are recognised within the fiscal framework.

‘Mardaani 3’ And The Limits Of The “Strong Female Cop” Narrative 'Mardaani 3' directed by Abhiraj Minawala and produced by YRF, is a competent, occasionally unsettling, but ultimately cautious film.

Progressive Mask, Regressive Portrayal: Why ‘Hot Spot 2 Much’ Is Pure Ragebait Masquerading as social commentary, Vignesh Karthik’s sequel masks its misogyny, male gaze, and moral policing of women's clothing choices as a meta-critique of society.

Sexual Abuse Of Women In Protests: The Price Paid For The ‘Sanctity’ Of The Movement Women in political protests are often subjected to sexual abuse and asked to keep it a ‘secret’ to maintain the ‘reputation’ of the movement

‘Exteriors’ By Annie Ernaux: An Archive Of The Transient Intersections Of Public Memory  In 'Exteriors', Ernaux has recorded the otherwise invisible ordinary lives navigating through systemic labour and class hierarchies in the public space.

Kerala Incident: Selective Outrage, Performative Misogyny And The Erasure Of Women’s Suffering Why does public outrage become so intense only when a man is affected, while the everyday suffering of women remains largely invisible?

A Letter To My Fellow Woke Savarnas: Why Our Outrage Is Not Enough We come from the same social worlds as those we condemn. We speak the same languages and occupy the same spaces.

‘Twisted Lies’: Power, Consent And The Problem With Billionaire Romance  While 'Twisted Lies' achieves success as an intense fantasy book, its underlying messages about power and agency are conflicted.

Violence As Inheritance: Bullying, Masculinity, And Breaking The Cycle In Indian Schools What happens to boys who need help but find no real avenues for it? Where do these boys go?

Kartik Aaryan Rumour And The Familiar Trap: Turning Scrutiny On Women Instead Of Power Dynamics The minor involved is offered no sympathy; dignity is more like a far-fetched prize for them

The Privileged Feminism Of ‘People We Meet On Vacation’: A Review  'People We Meet on Vacation' is ultimately a charming fantasy of "leisure feminism" that mistakes privilege for universal empowerment.

The Ephemerality Of A Rangoli And Art That Refuses To Be Owned A rangoli expects that you look down carefully and not crush someone’s labour and faith. It trains the body into tiny acts of respect. That is a different, quieter kind of power, but no less real.

Gender Confrontations: An Analysis Of Self-Portraits By Women Artists In India The journey of self-portraiture by women artists in India is a journey from silence to scream.

When Women And Queer Artists Had To Become Men To Be Seen Women’s expression was coded as too emotional, domestic, or secondary. Queer expression was sanitized or erased.

‘Kaantha’ (2025): A Film About Filmmaking That Doesn’t Quite Deliver 'Kaantha' gives us an inside look into the unforgiving world of the film industry and its implications on filmstars who are driven to the edge of self-destruction.

The Handloom As A Feminist Site: Agency, Power Relations And Systemic Challenges  Weaving and the loom become a site of economic empowerment while also underscoring that empowerment is an ongoing, sustained effort that extends beyond income generation to gradually creating systemic changes and…

Why Raghav Chadha’s AI Profile Picture Became A Metaphor For His Performative Solidarity With Gig Workers  Will the names of the gig workers who risked their IDs for visibility, all to be declared as "miscreants", ever be etched in the public memory of the strike?

The Housemaid Feminist Review: Subverting The ‘Madwoman’ Archetype And Class Exploitation Paul Feig's adaptation 'The Housemaid' subverts the ‘madwoman’ trope and examines the intersection of class precarity and gendered violence.

As Iranians Fight Their Far-Right Government, A Narrative War Brews Elsewhere While Iranians are mounting a brave fight against an authoritarian regime and a crumbling economy, a narrative war that leverages this critical struggle for ulterior motives is being fought in other parts of the world. 

The Price Of ‘Free Speech’: Grok AI And The Escalation Of Digital Misogyny Deepfake images that Grok AI generated have severe social, psychological, and career-based implications for women.

Liberation Of The Female Body Through Art: Body Art As Language Of Resistance And Healing Body art plays a role beyond self-expression; it is a powerful tool of resistance against oppressive standards of beauty.

The Girlfriend Review: Breaking The ‘Lucky’ Wife Archetype And Tollywood’s Profitable History Of Stalking And Silence In a cinema that ends every love story with a wedding, the most radical image The Girlfriend could offer: a woman alone. Unashamed. Whole.

Forest Rights Without Women’s Rights: How FRA Delays Shape Tribal Women’s Lives In Srikakulam Rights on paper mean little without meaningful recognition of community forest rights, accessible legal literacy, and deliberate efforts to enable women's participation in decision-making spaces.

Power Relations And Consent In Sexual Assault: Trial By The Society In Bishop Franco Case  Survivor in the case has suffered isolation, allegations of faking the charges, and moral indignation.

Pain, Pleasure And Play: Celebrating Women Artists Across Space And Time Art requires women to be disobedient, sometimes rebellious, and even revolutionary, freeing themselves from the shackles of family and societal life.

Instagram, Beauty Anxiety And The Business Of Women’s Insecurities Approaching thirty in the age of Instagram often means confronting a new set of anxieties.

Art As Resistance, Art As Belonging: From Phulkari To Digital Graffiti From the delicate threads of phulkari, to VFX on social media, art has been instrumental for social change for a very long time.

Who Decides What Counts As “Real” Art? Many practices that are demoted within dominant art hierarchies are historically associated with women and Bahujan Adivasi communities.

Chandralekha: A Dancer, Choreographer And Activist | #IndianWomenInHistory Chandralekha rooted her art in the human experience and was clear that this human experience did not involve religion as a definable area.

Vrat Katha: Sanctified Suffering Through Ritual Art The vrat katha functions as a form of ritual art, performed, repeated, and aesthetically framed, through which social norms are not merely transmitted but also transformed into sacred meaning.

The Rural Road To Patriarchy: Land, Labour, And The Gendered Cost Of Reform When through the Green Revolution, the agrarian methods were mechanised women were among the first and the most to leave the farms.

Meira Kumar: How A Dalit Woman Reshaped Indian Politics From The Speaker’s Chair  Meira Kumar is a politician and Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha, who has left her mark on the field of Indian politics.

Why Audre Lorde’s Work Remains As Relevant As Ever Audre Lorde described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, and poet.’ It would be impossible to speak of her and her legacy in 2026 without adding a few more words: legendary, powerful, and relevant. One of the dynamic voices whose words…

Walls Of Dissent: Art, Graffiti, And Visual Resistance In Kashmir Graffiti teaches us the idea that resistance is not necessarily loud or institutionalized, but sometimes it sits quietly on the walls.

Man-Repellent Makeup And The Politics Of Beauty Man-repellent makeup presents itself to us as a strategy to question who gets to be visible and safe, and who ultimately profits from defiance.

Who Gets To Dance? Gender, Power, And Exclusion In Indian Classical Dance Forms From theory to practical, gender plays a significant role in defining the methodology, message and meaning behind each lesson taught and knowledge gained in Indian classical dance. Gender identity forms a central…

Sara Arjun, Ranveer Singh And The “Age”-Old Question That Bollywood Keeps Dodging Age gaps in Bollywood are not transgressive, they are routine, which makes them all the more scarier, as is seen in the 'Dhurandhar' lead pairing.

Invisible By Design: How India’s Construction Sector Systematically Marginalises Women Workers Women construction workers' labour is constant, visible and physically demanding but it's not acknowledged in policy conversations.

When The Body Refuses Silence: Marina Abramović And Her Performance Art   Marina Abramović had a great impact on the performance art genre where she used her own body to question power.