Everyday Patriarchy
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Domestic Violence: Tale of Two Women
Brihaspati Sardar and Kamla Sardar from West Bengal faced domestic violence. They talk about the physical-emotional assault and their individual perspectives.
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National Girl Child Day: Why Should Girls Embody Family Honour?
The belief that girls and women embody a family's honour is quite universal even today. Here's how the belief is being challenged, in homes, in public spaces and in the online world.
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Sarpanch Pati: The Roadblock to Women’s Political Participation
Twenty-five years after women were given 33% reservation in local self-governance bodies, many women sarpanchs remain faceless wives and daughters-in-law.
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What’s in a Name? Only Patriarchal Control
Women in rural Odisha reflect on what the compulsion to change one’s surname after marriage means for their identity.
Too Beautiful to Pray?
Patriarchy supplies a slew of bizarre rationales for keeping women away from places of worship.
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When the Personal is Political: Inequality within Marriage
In rural Uttar Pradesh, one young woman brings her camera and lots of courage to dismantle patriarchy.
Sindoor: Symbol of Marriage or Misogyny?
From tax reforms to Bollywood movie tropes to everyday realities-- there is no escaping the symbols of marriage that only apply to women.
When Children ‘Perform’ Gender
In rural Uttar Pradesh children exaggerate ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ when performing gendered actions. But are things as black and white as they seem?