Mumbai: Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty, who will be seen in the film “Jalebi”, says every man and woman has a role to play in changing the image and position of women in a patriarchal society like India. She says men should understand feminism is not male-bashing, but a celebration of[Read More…]
Tag: Feminism
This is how higher sex ratio states fare when it comes to women lawmakers
While Indians identifying them as feminists is on the rise, aiming for gender equality while being bound by patriarchal social fabric stuck across various strata looks inscrutable. Though the Indian women’s movement has achieved much, there is still a long way to go. As old mindsets steeped in patriarchy still[Read More…]
Fearless Girl: Symbol of feminism, a debate in art, or a lesson in male fragility?
The controversy surrounding the Fearless Girl refuses to die down. After the statue managed to piss off the creator of the Charging Bull, it has been joined by a Pissing Dog. Literally. To give some perspective: the Fearless Girl statue is a bronze sculpture of a girl with hands on[Read More…]
Viral Video: This touching ad on domestic violence will break your heart!
Domestic violence is an issue that is rampant in our society, yet people prefer not to acknowledge its existence within their families or the neighbourhood. It is, perhaps, one of the worst manifestations of misogyny; women are beaten up, tortured, raped and in some cases, even murdered behind closed doors.[Read More…]
Ditch your partner ‘coz marrying yourself is the new trend!
Distressed with your partner? Choking in the yoke of patriarchy? Hate the world for normalising casual sexism? Did you just get dumped? Worry not! Looks like a number of women across the globe have taken feminist Gloria Steinem most popular quote “A woman needs a man like a fish needs[Read More…]
Divorce among Muslims low compared to others
GWG presents ‘Awaken the Magic Within’ to Salma Ansari and Baroness Usha Prashar
Global Women’s Group (GWG) and British Council togetherly released the book ‘AWAKEN the Magic Within’ at the British Council in New Delhi on Friday. The book was presented to Salma Ansari and Baroness Usha Prashar, member of the House of the Lords, United Kingdom. Prashar also contributed to the anthology.[Read More…]
IIT Roorkee lifts curfew at hostels for girls
‘We are all in boxes’: Watch Sonata Trailer
The trailer of Aparna Sen’s latest directorial venture ‘Sonata’ is released online. Sonata is the story of three unmarried women-Aruna Chaturvedi (Professor), Dolon Sen (Banker) and Subhadra Parekh (journalist) played by Aparna Sen, Shabana Azmi and Lillete Dubey respectively- trapped in the boxes of a metropolis. Sonata is an English[Read More…]
The ‘fragile’ male ego: Addressing the elephant in the room
Writing about male ego may sound like a disastrous idea on women’s day but it is one of the prime causes keeping us away from attaining gender equality. India is a contradictory society and has people living both a hundred years ahead and behind time, all at once. With such[Read More…]
Meet Pankhuri, the young spokesperson of Samajwadi party who is smashing patriarchy
Pankhuri Pathak, 25, is making her mettlesome presence felt on national television debates regularly; and these days even more so because of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh elections. The youngest media face of Samajwadi Party, Pankhuri, is a strongly opinionated young woman who has risen up the rungs of politics with[Read More…]
‘Bra’ and ‘panty’ are obscene words, according to Delhi govt’s cultural wing
The theatre society of a women’s college has been moral policed by the Sahitya Kala Parishad (Delhi government’s cultural wing) for performing a play with a number of words which apparently affected the cultural integrity of the society. ‘Lakshya’, a theatre group consisting of students of the Kamala Nehru college’s theatre[Read More…]