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Arundhathi Subramaniam, poet in conversation with Anamika, Hindi poet and novelist at IIC discussing her new book The Gallery of Upside Down Women on women mystics

In an upside down world, these women mystics are right side up

January 01, 2026 4:20 pm

Arundhathi Subramaniam traces a lineage of unruly women mystics in her new book The Gallery of Upside Down Women

The Performative male is a new archetype, curated for the public gaze. (Generated using AI)

The performative male: From tote bags to matcha lattes, when sensitivity becomes a badge

October 28, 2025 6:38 pm

From Sally Rooney to therapy-speak, a look at how literature anticipates and anatomises the 'performative male', and the bind of modern masculinity.

The ‘tradwife’ offers only the illusion of a feminist choice

September 03, 2025 5:53 pm

When a term that glamourises women’s subservience is normalised as just another lifestyle label, it puts the next generation of women at risk

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Experts call for feminist foreign policy, greater inclusion

August 25, 2025 1:01 am

The seminar opened with Prof Pam Rajput noting that while women have historically shaped informal diplomacy, their representation in formal structures remains limited

If Barbies had bookshelves: 5 reads they would totally own

August 20, 2025 12:08 pm

From Big Magic to The Power, here’s what each Barbie would totally have on her bookshelf.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction redefines how we read women

July 30, 2025 11:12 am

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk 'We Should All Be Feminists' became a cultural moment, later adapted into a slim essay that found its way into classrooms, Instagram captions, and even Beyoncé’s music.

What if women ruled the world? Four feminist utopias that defy gender norms

What if women ruled the world? 4 feminist utopias that defy gender norms

June 25, 2025 2:06 pm

From Ladyland to Herland, these feminist utopias imagine worlds where women reshape society and leadership.

‘Sirens’ and the women that men love to blame

June 11, 2025 3:29 pm

Netflix’s new limited series revisits an age-old archetype through three modern women who, depending on whom you ask, are either victims or villains – or perhaps both

Knowledge nugget of the day: 4B Movement

November 23, 2024 3:13 pm

As the 4B movement saw a surge on social media, let’s understand what it is and why it is trending in America.

Recalling an incident during a visit to the US, Shabana Azmi shared how a woman criticised her for ironing her husband Javed Akhtar’s kurta

‘Koi samajh hi nahi ki matlab kya hai’: Shabana Azmi stresses the importance of understanding true meaning of feminism

November 07, 2024 5:37 pm

“I was ironing Javed [Akhtar]'s kurta, and this woman said, ‘You call yourself a feminist and you are ironing your husband's kurta?’” Shabana Azmi said.