Learning From Grandmama To Defend Yourself?

Kenya Grandmoms Fight Back Against the Rapists- Literally!

The grandmoms of Kenya are not going to let the rapists dominate over them and therefore have resorted to...

Is Love Enough?

The synopsis of the play Bas… Tum Aur Hum, asks a very important question: If marriages are made in heaven what is it that keeps them going on Earth?<...

Consent and its Consequence

Rape and child protection laws seem to have differing notions about consent and marriage- according to our existing rules, sex with a woman under the age of 18 is a crimina...

Autumn of 2017 And the List of Films to fall For!

The summer of 2017 was a forgettable one for film enthusiasts, with several box-office crashes and lukewarm cinema. The upcoming fall, though, seems promising, with interes...

Jaago Re for Gender Change

Tata Tea's latest advertising campaign shows the inequality we learn in our daily lives, and calls for a change.

The series of videos, part of the Jaago Re...

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

Laughter in Lahore

Despite its image as a repressed nation torn by turmoil, Pakistan's alternative art movement is slowly making heads turn. Auratnaak, an all-women group of comedy a...

The Stage and the Stree

Theatre has been one of the longest-practiced forms of art in India- from age-old bards, to soliloquizing protagonists, to dance-dramas, it has always been a crucial part o...

Celeb for a Cause

Actress Taapsee Pannu recently took up the initiative to educate women about menstrual hygiene. Pannu, known for her roles in the recent, critically acclaimed films Pin...