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There are stories of women who gave up their lives of luxury to follow Buddha's teachings, of women who did not marry but chose to continue their...
This is a village in Jharkhand, the kind of place where the law is flexible, the kind of place where women are burnt as witches and nobody seems to...
Even today, women are offered love, careers, success or whatever it is they may desire, if they are suitably conformist
It is wonderful to see these actresses play such diverse and difficult characters, and Hollywood recognising them for their talent and not for...
Annapoorani tries to cram too much ammunition to ‘reform’ the community of conservatives
January 3 was the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule. The role of the Phules goes beyond the regional, and Savitribai should be up there along with...
For women, routine low-grade terror is not caused by monsters but by intrusions into their everyday lives
In a world with such a shortage of peace and compassion, looking away from a situation because it is too unbearable to contemplate is sometimes an...
It would be naive to assume that women are always innocent, but the the film reflects what happens so often in society.
Even today, aggressiveness is not seen as an admirable trait in women, never mind what their position may be in any hierarchical structure
Sthal may be about a woman, but it should be made compulsory viewing for young men — they cannot be unaware of the injustices being carried out in...
Ms. was willing to fight, buck existing social norms, make and break trends, get laws enacted or changed; it was a magazine of intellect as much as...
Her books have their share of stereotypes like empty-headed heiresses and gossipy old women, but she also wrote female characters who were brighter...
Two plays currently running on the Mumbai stage revisit old hits, and it is interesting to see how the condition of women has changed over the...
Salander never identifies as a feminist, nor does she use her (criminally acquired) wealth or her computer skills for any institutionalised activism