Breaking News
- Bollywood
UDTA TEER REVIEW: STAR CAST DISAPPOINTS
0 - Bollywood
TU HAI MERI KIRAN: OBSESSION FAILS TO FLY
0 - Thought Factory
(NOT) A FORGOTTEN FREEDOM FIGHTER OF GOA
0 - Alternative Entertainment
THE FIRST FILM: CINEMA, FREEDOM, DESIRE
0 - Festivals
WHEN A SCOOTER BRINGS MOTHER BACK
0 - Alternative Entertainment
IRRFAN: THE ART OF UNDERSTATED ACTING
0 - Festivals
MARG@80 CELEBRATES INDIA’S ARTISTIC HERITAGE
0 - Thought Factory
THE RURAL BOY WHO BECAME A LITERARY ICON
0 - Bollywood
PRAHAAR REVIEW: JUSTICE AND HEROISM
0 - Alternative Entertainment
BIRDS IN THE DARK REVIEW
0
Gender
A Guide to the Social Factors That Put Transgender Lives at Risk
News coverage of transgender issues frequently includes devastating stories of violence and loss. Every year, we read about trans women who are brutally murdered, or trans you...
Read More
This Ahmedabad Doctor Does Not Charge Parents If A Girl Child Is Born, Throws A Party Instead!
The sad truth is that many in India pray for the birth of a boy even today. Dr. Mahadev Lohana, the Managing Director of Sindhu Hospital in Ahmedabad, noticed how the birth of...
Read More
Why Odisha’s Tribal Women Are Returning To Their Natural Roots For Guidance On Food
Even in 21st century India, there is a sizeable number of children for whom life is riddled with poverty, food insecurity, poor nutrition, and minimal access to safe water, sa...
Read More
This Terracotta Invention Is Easing Periods For Young Rural Girls
In India, anything related to menstruation is treated like a state secret, whispered about behind closed doors and wrapped in brown paper. As a result young girls across the n...
Read More
MY STORY: Why I Started A Petition Against A Ban On Emergency Contraceptive Pills In Tamil Nadu
I did not take my friends’ occasional rants about the unavailability of emergency contraceptive pills in Chennai seriously, until I set out to look for it myself. I lear...
Read More
Meet The Woman Who Has Helped Over 10,000 Mentally Challenged Women Live With Dignity
Sonali Mughdar is a 25-year-old Mumbai resident living with hearing and speech impairments and an intellectual disability. Her father passed away five years ago and her mother...
Read More
These Women Took On Male-Dominated Workplaces And Emerged Inspirational Winners!
Access to sustainable paid employment is the key to women’s empowerment and capacity to exercise control over their lives. The Beijing Platform for Action had underlined...
Read More
Why We Put A Transgender Girl On The Cover of National Geographic
Since we shared photos of the cover of our special issue on gender on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, tens of thousands of people have weighed in with opinions, from express...
Read More
This Gritty Woman Started Her Crusade Against Child Sexual Abuse When She Was Just 10!
India ranks among the top five countries with the highest rate of child sexual abuse. A 2013 report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights explained the epidemic proportions of ...
Read More
This 16-Year-Old Is Changing Attitudes & Promoting Better Sanitation In The Slums Of Mumbai
For an outsider who steps into the slums of Govandi East for the first time, the smell that hits them first. Next they are greeted by the sight of open drainage lines that run...
Read More