Gender

No More Khatna: Meet The Five Women Standing Against The Ritual Of Female Circumcision In India

I was browsing through Facebook while sipping chai when a video caught my attention. I hit the play button. “A cut that pierced my life…A small nick, just a piece...

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Serena Williams Writes Open Letter About Gender Equality, Empowerment And Resilience

The number two tennis player in the world, Serena Williams, wrote an open letter in Porter's Magazine Incredible Women Of 2016 issue. She addresses the obstacles women need to...

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Iron Lady: How the Feminist in Jayalalithaa Had Empowered the Women of Tamil Nadu

Dressed in a green saree she rests in peace — the lady who ruled Tamil Nadu for over fourteen years as the state’s CM for five terms. Although mired in controversy...

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A 16-Year-Old Tribal Girl From MP Is Going To An Oxford School To Learn English

16-year-old Asha Gond is a tribal girl from a little known village called Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. When she swings by on her skateboard, you’d be hard pressed to reali...

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Utah Woman Has Adopted 35 Children — Including 26 with Special Needs: ‘They’ll Always Feel Loved’

Christie Jameson sometimes wonders if the idea to adopt 35 children was planted when she was 12. She came home from a doctor’s appointment with her mother one afternoon ...

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'This Is a New Frontier': The Global Movement Working to Make Courts Feminist

When a sentence of six months' probation was handed down in the case of Brock Turner, the 20-year college Stanford University swimming star who assaulted an unconscious woman ...

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'You Can't Stand by and Watch People Die': The Woman Developing an HIV Vaccine

In the 1990s, Dr. Glenda Gray was an activist and medical student, fighting to end segregation in the hospitals of apartheid South Africa and mobilize communities around healt...

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The Hidden Epidemic of Men Who Are Raped by Women

There are many great things about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's survey on sexual violence, according to UCLA law professor Lara Stemple. "The interviewer is...

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Coming To Terms With “Beauty And The Beast” And The Imperfect Feminism Of Disney

Looking back from a mountaintop of Elsa and Moana, it seems ridiculous that Ariel and Belle once struck Disney audiences as independent, tough, and feminist. But times can cha...

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Speaking Out On Sexism And Violence Through Hip-Hop

UN: Young women are beginning to find their voices around issues such as sexism and violence, including through hip-hop, an art form which has a long tradition of fighting opp...

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REVIEW: HAPPY PATEL - KHATARNAK JASOOS IS BIG ON INTENT, LIGHT ON LAUGHS

The actor-director’s spy spoof aims for absurdist satire but collapses under stere...

January 21 2026

POWERFUL PEOPLE: 55 YEARS ON, MERE APNE’S RELEVANCE

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with the indefatigable poet, lyricist, story-script-write...

January 20 2026

KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW

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

January 19 2026