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Women Should be Younger than Their Husbands and Other Lessons of Patriarchy
Men and women alike internalise gender discrimination. Is there a way to unlearn patriarchy? Saket is in middle school. But he’s very sure of the reason behind the difference in legal marriageable age of women (18) and men (21). “It is so that women can’t dominate us,” he says with...
Fasting in the Name of Love
Karva Chauth has arrived. A festival of love as some call it, is just one more occasion for advertisers to ply you with everything from garish lehengas to bejewelled sieves and special facials and hairdos.
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Informal Waste-Pickers Finally Get Identity Cards
For three years, a group of women went around Nashik collecting waste from garbage dumps; their work is finally being recognised, thanks to a video.
Too Beautiful to Pray?
Patriarchy supplies a slew of bizarre rationales for keeping women away from places of worship.
Why I don’t think Women should Celebrate Independence Day
Freedom is an unfulfilled promise for nearly fifty percent of the country who have to constantly negotiate their lives through fear and stigma. It was a holiday. A holiday marked by fluttering tricolours in each neighbourhood and loudspeakers blaring patriotic songs. A day before in school, I had dutifully stood...
Labouring on the Fields During the Ninth Month of Pregnancy
Schemes benefitting poor women are disbursed to them through bank accounts. But a large number of the beneficiaries do not even have access to banks.
The Power Injustice Faced by Kashmiris
Adding to the major deficit of electricity in the valley, massive corruption further deprives those most in need of accessing electricity, particularly in rural Kashmir.