Feministaah

It’s the end of the year and time to check on the progress made by women in the Hindi film industry—have they inched forward at all? Yes, if the graph …

As the horrific rape-murder of Priyanka Reddy causes country-wide outrage, baffled attempts to understand what turns young men into savages and knee-jerk ideas about women’s safety come up, which are …

A new play Zoon: Noor Kashmir Ka, by award-winning playwright-director Purva Naresh, connects the story of Kashmir’s legendary poetess Zoon or Habba Khatoon, with conditions in Kashmir today. There have …

Sona Mohapatra was furious because she found that female singers were not being invited to perform at music festivals, the excuse being there aren’t any. She created the hashtag #IExist …

Watching a film, The Souvenir, at the MAMI Film Festival, made by a female director, Joanna Hogg, which was about a woman unable to get out of a toxic relationship with a …

When the #MeToo movement hit India a year ago, there was such an outpouring of rage; all that misplaced shame, feeling of vicimisation and helplessness that women had bottled up …

The British TV series, Fleabag, swept some major awards at the Emmys this year—the show about a thirty-something woman called Fleabag, written and played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, chronicles the emotional and …

In cities, education for girls and a certain amount of freedom is taken for granted, but go out into the Indian mofussil, and the story is very different– if girls …

There was a startling photograph seen a few days back, of female scientists sticking on mustaches and thick beards on their faces, in a symbolic gesture to be taken as …

A one-woman stage presentation, Cast Off All Shame, by Ulka Mayur (in picture above), brought into focus the women Bhakti poets of India, who predated the feminist movement—as we know it …