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Masculinity and the family in contemporary Indian fiction
Gender
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Excerpt
An excerpt on matriarchy from Romila Thapar’s “The Future in the Past”
Gender
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Photo Essay
The lives of two women forest guards in the Thar desert
Deepti Asthana
Gender
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Photo Essay
Football versus patriarchy in West Bengal
Paromita Chatterjee
Economy
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Commentary
The curious case of recent government data on women’s labour-force participation
Aakanksha Kaushik
Religion
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Essay
The demonisation of Kaikeyi and Surpanakha
Saswati Sengupta
Gender And Sexuality
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The Lede
A transwoman’s struggle for official recognition of her identity
Soumya Mishra
Gender
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Interview
Judge Bobde said I could get my job back, I said, “No Lordship, I just need justice”: CJI complainant
Nikita Saxena
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Atul Dev
Politics
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Reportage
The orators helping Kerala fight against religious revivalism
Leena Gita Reghunath
Law
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Reportage
“I have been victimised for resisting and refusing the unwanted sexual advances of the CJI” Ranjan Gogoi: Former Supreme Court employee
Atul Dev
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Nikita Saxena
Policy
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News
How women panchayati officials in Bihar are challenging the practice of proxy candidates
Zumbish
Policy
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News
For Bihar’s women, benefits of prohibition wane as alcoholism persists in their villages
Zumbish
Politics
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Commentary
The Congress’s ill-thought-out imitation of the BJP on Sabarimala
Abhay Regi
Sports
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The Lede
Chennai’s Ultimate Frisbee players navigate one of India’s only mixed-gender sports
Karen Dias
Gender
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Photo Essay
A Nepali photographer’s attempt to engage with taboo aspects of womanhood
Bunu Dhungana
Health
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Reportage
India’s complicated history with cervical cancer
Sophie Cousins
History
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Commentary
Why the Ramayana’s many voices provoke outrage
Audrey Truschke
Statement
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Commentary
Sadanand Menon responds to allegations of sexual harassment
The Caravan
Sexuality
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Photo Essay
A psychological exploration of the LGBT community in eastern India
Soumya Sankar Bose
Round Up
A Selection of Short Reads from 2017
The Caravan
Gender
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The Lede
Feminists attempt to correct the gender imbalance on Wikipedia’s art pages
Aathira Konikkara
Media
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Reportage
How WhatsApp has changed news in small-town India
Disha Mullick
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Meera Devi
Health
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Interview
On the Ground, It’s Business As Usual: Jashodhara Dasgupta On One Year Since the Supreme Court Banned Sterilisation Camps
Shaifali Agrawal
Film
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Reportage
How Malayalam cinema’s only female superstar got back to work
Leena Gita Reghunath
Film
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Commentary
The faux feminism of Bollywood’s new romantic comedy
Kamayani Sharma
Communities
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Photo Essay
The dual lives of hijras in Bangladesh
Shahria Sharmin
Literature
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Photo Essay
Romance novels by and for women in northern Nigeria
Glenna Gordon
Media
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News
The murky case of Mangalam TV and the questions it raises about the gender problem in Malayalam journalism
Leena Gita Reghunath
Communities
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The Lede
India’s new society of women Freemasons
Jaiveer Kohli Mariwala
Gender
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Interview
“I Understand the Project of Trans-Feminism To Be About the Liberation of All Genders”: An Interview With the Poet and Performance Artist Alok Vaid-Menon
Skye Arundhati Thomas
Crime
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News
In Rohtak’s Amrit Colony, There Is No Sympathy For a Dalit Woman Allegedly Killed By Her Family For Marrying A Brahmin
Sagar
Crime
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News
How TERI handled the sexual harassment complaint against RK Pachauri
Nikita Saxena