Gender

Violence Against Women Hurts The Economy

India is caught in a depressing cycle of lack of empowerment of women and low economic productivity in society There are obviously many reasons to be appalled and sickened by ...

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Blank Noise Movement Speaks Out Against Sexual Harassment

When the clock struck midnight, and we welcomed the New Year, Bengaluru had another tale to tell — a mob of men caused utter chaos as they sexually harassed women who we...

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Over 500 Years Old, This Manipuri Market Is Run Solely By Women

Their crinkled faces sport sandalwood paste and their cheeks constantly churn the deep purple of betel nut as they chirp away with their fellow shopkeepers. These are the face...

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How The Women’s March Has United Progressives of All Stripes

The idea started with women on Facebook. On the night of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in November, a grandmother in Hawaii named Teresa Shook went online and called f...

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Enough We Will Not Be Silent Anymore

The Cinthol ad follows Indian sportswomen who have braved odds and ridicule to simply follow their hearts and make a new destiny. The ad captures the new narrative about women...

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A Fix For Gender Bias In Healthcare? Check.

When Dr. Elliott Haut and his team at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore designed their blood clot prevention protocol back in 2006, they didn’t expect to discover syst...

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27 Nonfiction Books By Women Everyone Should Read This Year

New year, new books. At least, that’s what we wrote back in December, when we were just starting to add titles to our 2017 reading lists. Now that we’re nine days ...

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Color Purple - The Aravani Art Project

Today, a few members of the transgender community will take over a wall in Dharavi, a slum cluster in the heart of Mumbai, and transform it into a riot of colours, as part of ...

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Don’t Just Stand There – This Mannequin Challenge Has A Message On Eve Teasing You Can’t Miss

It’s been a few weeks since the mass molestation incidents that occurred on New Year’s eve in Bangalore came to public consciousness. Debates have since raged over...

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How To Save 32000 Lives Each Year: Replace Male Doctors With Female Ones

Doctors from Harvard have an intriguing suggestion for saving 32,000 lives each year: Make sure all senior citizens who wind up in the hospital are treated by female doctors. ...

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KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW

Cultures are never frozen in time, they keep moving, keep evolving.Filmmaker and writer ...

January 19 2026

HEALTH: WHEN CANCER GETS PERSONAL

As cancer treatment continues to rely on averages and probabilities, a breakthrough appr...

January 18 2026

GENDER: CHAI AND LOVE MEET ON STAGE

In this intimate column, Vinta Nanda writes about The Chai Queens, its emotional homecom...

January 17 2026