Gender

Will Toys Ever Go Beyond Blue and Pink?

Products marketed to children are more divided by gender stereotypes than ever, but the Internet is increasingly offering alternatives to Hot Wheels and Barbies.Walking into a...

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How The First-Ever Qualified Woman Cricket Coach In Kashmir Is Breaking Stereotypes In The Valley

It’s a hot, sunny day and a small group of girls is running, sweating it out in the playground. They have donned tracks, their hair is neatly tied up and they are all we...

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MEET INDIA’S ONLY WOMAN TUNNEL ENGINEER. SHE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN BENGALURU’S METRO PROJECT

Annie Sinha Roy, a 35-year-old resident of Bengaluru, is India’s first and only tunnel engineer.AND SHE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 4.8 KM EAST-WEST UNDE...

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The Gender Beat: South Asian Women Earn 80% Less Than Men; Kerala’s First Woman Boat Master

A new study published by the international organisation Action Aid titled The Price of Privilege: Extreme Wealth, Unaccountable Power and the Fight for Equality in the 21st ce...

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Men Struggle To Read Tweets Sent To Female Sports Reporters

In 2014, video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, along with critic Anita Sarkeesian, were the victims of an online harassment campaign known as Gamergate. This wi...

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Climate Change Is Not Gender-Neutral

It is well established that the poor are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and that women—who account for the majority of the world’s poor—ar...

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The Silence That Still Surrounds Periods

Let’s begin with the obvious: Every woman in the history of humanity has, or has had, a period. Each month, her uterus sheds its lining, sending blood flowing out throug...

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Harriet Tubman Is The New Face Of The $20 Bill

If you’ve got any $20 bills with Andrew Jackson’s face on them sitting in your wallet you might want to get them framed, because as of this morning they are a coll...

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Tegan & Sara On Queering Pop And Ditching Guitars

Three years ago, Tegan and Sara transformed from indie rock mainstays to legitimate pop stars. Their 2013 albumHeartthrob saw them crack Top 40 with synth-pop confections...

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In Portraits: Indian Women In Never-Seen-Before Avatar

In the summer of 2012, Nimisha Bhanot discovered her fondness for portraits. The 27-year-old Canadian visual artist didn’t want to paint just any kind of portraiture&mda...

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QUEER MOTHERHOOD BEYOND STEREOTYPES

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe: Vikram Phukan's Some Mothers, Other Mothers explores queer moth...

July 7 2026

CHASING SHADOWS IN A LOVELESS WORLD

Brij Bhushan, journalist and author, reviews Khalid Mohamed's Not Quite Family: An Intim...

July 6 2026

PRITAM AND PEDRO REVIEW VERDICT

A convention-bound cyber thriller that never quite acquires the unmistakable Hirani magi...

July 5 2026