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Indian Women Breaking Ground in Journalism Through The Years

By Naina Lalchandani (She/Her) 19th October, 2020

Journalism, like many others, has always been a male-dominated field. Unequal access to education and employment meant that men had already solidif...

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The Politics of Pockets: Yes, There’s Politics Here As Well

By Shraddha Jaiswal (She/Her) 5th October, 2020

All of you might have experienced this at least once where you complimented a girl’s dress and they jumped up in excitement to tell you that it has...

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History Of The Purdah System: Unveiling its Multidimensional Roots

By Shrutija Saxena (She/Her) 5th October, 2020

The idea of secular India has come under scrutiny from numerous ends. Despite secularism finding its way into the Constitution’s pages in 1975, the...

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When Women Lead: Looking Back At The Chipko Movement

By Samarpreet Kaur (She/Her) 28th September, 2020

In the 1960s, India was losing around 1.3 million hectares of forest every year. Many people’s livelihoods depended on the forests and that w...

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Women & Hysteria: A Conspiracy By Science, Society And Philosophers

By Ashmita Singh (She/Her) 28th September, 2020

“Hey you, don’t raise your voice! Hey, stop screaming like a madwoman! Don’t laugh out loud, it doesn’t seem nice! What?! You are a woman and you d...

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We Should All Know About Nangeli And Her Revolt Against The Breast Tax

By Shatakshi Jaiswal (She/Her) 28th September, 2020

Trigger Warning: casteist violence, violence against women, suicide “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your pow...

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Your Standards Of Beauty Are Implicitly Eurocentric: A History

By Lavanya Sinha (She/Her) 27th September, 2020

Growing up in Delhi as a dark-skinned, frizzy-haired, blunt-nosed chubby girl is bound to produce some backlash – for me. It was the outrageo...