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'Why do you need to work': Geeta Basra recalls sexist remarks on her decision to marry Harbhajan Singh

October 02, 2025 10:05 am

During the conversation, Geeta Basra also highlighted how women still feel unsafe. "It's become so unsafe that now I am scared that I can't go out alone."

Ram Gopal Varma points out what didn't work for him in Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal.

Ram Gopal Varma says he didn't connect with father-son story, shoe-licking scene in Animal: 'Was fed up of Anil Kapoor'

September 07, 2025 2:01 pm

Ram Gopal Varma found the shoe-licking scene between Ranbir Kapoor and Triptii Dimri "inconsistent" in Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal.

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

How to raise a boy: We cannot raise our sons alone. That is why we have invited the right role models into our home

August 17, 2025 1:14 am

In a world full of Andrew Tates, I want my sons to know that to be a ‘real’ man is to be kind

There is more to Kozhikode than what the cover page offers.

Kozhikode, best at hospitality, delicious meals — and no place to eat for one

August 04, 2025 1:25 pm

The heart of Kerala’s Malabar coast offers rich hospitality and fuller plates, but not always open minds — especially if you are single, especially if you are a woman

Mandira Bedi on working in a male dominated field

‘I questioned and belittled myself’: Mandira Bedi opens up about battling sexism and self-doubt as a cricket presenter; why it is common

May 21, 2025 5:51 pm

As Mandira’s questions were routinely ignored by senior panelists, she decided she would no longer be sidelined.

What a common gendered phrase says about the persistence of sexism in law

May 20, 2025 5:18 pm

The saying, ‘The law is a jealous mistress’, was coined at a time when women were valued primarily for their beauty, sexuality and reproductive role. Those days are in the past, just as this aphorism should be

Women's March in Washington DC in 2017, soon after Donald Trump won the 2016 US Presidential elections./4b movement represenational

'No sex with Trump voters': The ABC of the 4B movement

November 11, 2024 8:53 pm

While the 4B movement originated in South Korea a few years ago, not having sex with men as a political protest is not a new idea. We take a look at 4B, its history, and (non-sexist) criticism.

Are men not supposed to compliment women anymore?

September 08, 2024 12:23 pm

Who started this sanctimonious nonsense that it’s inappropriate to praise a woman’s looks? It depends on who’s doing it and the context. As a woman I can say, of course it’s nice to be appreciated for one’s work. But I’m also aware that the morning newspaper is the evening’s trash.

According to a Reuters investigation, the Apple supplier does not hire married women because “family duties, pregnancy and higher absenteeism” compromise their performance at work.

Foxconn and married women: Dear men, what did your wives give up so that you could shine at work?

June 28, 2024 2:52 pm

For years, ‘progressive men’ have been hailed for ‘allowing women to work’, when all along, it is women who have allowed men to work by taking care of everything else.