My opinion

By Imaan Haque   Growing up in a conservative Muslim family, I was always told that queerness is something exceptionally sinful. There was no space to even talk about homosexuality, or anything even remotely related to it. Naturally, as a child, I adopted many of these [...]Read more

By Imaan Haque   An inevitable facet of traversing the world as a woman is the ceaseless harassment levied on us in public. In India, a woman is sexually harassed every 12 minutes. Street harassment comes in many forms: eve-teasing (including making passes, obscene gestures, [...]Read more

By Evanshi Mavani   Trigger Warning: Mention of sexual violence   For years now in Indian cinema, there’s been nothing as exhilarating for the masses as seeing a hero crush his enemies, save his girl, and live happily ever after. However, it’s 2022, and surely, we can [...]Read more

By Akanksha Pandey   For eons, the egregiously gendered segregation of work across cultures dissuaded women from venturing beyond the socially deemed prudent role of a “caregiver” at home, in the manifold avatars of a mother, wife, daughter or a sister. Her mobility [...]Read more

By Akanksha Pandey   “When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits” – Hillary Clinton “Empowerment” remains the warp and woof of most affirmative actions sanctioned by governments to bolster historically marginalized communities.  And, although the concept itself [...]Read more

By Nidhi Bajpai   India is one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. At least that’s what we hear and say! And according to The World Bank data, India has seen an ever declining female labour force participation in the past two decades. The female [...]Read more

By Disha Sarna   Fatphobia can be defined as the fear of fatness, but in a more colloquial sense, it is the prejudice held against fat people simply because of their weight. Although society has always had perceptions of an ideal body type, the notion of fatphobia has [...]Read more

By Nidhi Bajpai   One of the challenges of studying gender differences has been accounting for the role of culture. Women, even today, are expected to remain confined to the four walls of the house. Working outside home is considered a highway road for them. If one chooses [...]Read more

By Akanksha Pandey   Samdosha, Samagnischa, Samadhatumalkriya; Prasannatmendriyamanah, Swastha iti abhidhiyate                                                                                                                                                      (Sushrut [...]Read more