India
A New D
Shobhaa Dé came to the Indian publishing scene in the late-1980s like a South Asian Jackie Collins and has been credited with paving... Read more »
On The Map: Something Special for the Ladies
The New York Times and BBC report that eight women-only trains were recently introduced in urban Indian cities. Some may question this form of sex-... Read more »
On the Map: Fashion and Fundraising with The Uniform Project
In Mumbai and Delhi, several fashion designers are making their radical politics known on the runway, and in fashion capital New York City, one Indian woman is drawing attention to the need... Read more »
The Power and Protest of Public Sexuality in India
Trouble, thy name is woman. India is a country in the throes of a sexual revolution, and young women are firmly planted at the center of the controversy.
In some of the world's most populous cities, generational and ideological divides have become starkly visible. Saris, salwaar kameez, and... Read more »
Blank Noise Project - I Never Asked For It
Blank Noise Project works to end eve teasing (street harassment) in India by reclaiming public space for women through direct action and artistic projects intended to raise awareness.
Sign Location: Joggers Park in Mumbai (Photograph by Manu)
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Desiring Poetry in the Afterlife: Goodbye Kamala Das
The late Kamala Das' poetic words of female sexuality and desire stirred the world.
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Who is Bula-Di?
Who knew a puppet could be so effective in spreading HIV awareness in India?
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Women, Whiteness, and Indian Cricket
Women are making their entrance into cricket as players, team owners, and purveyors of sexism and White privilege?
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Bollywood Barbie
Barbie was all over the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai this year. The doll celebrated its 50th Anniversary by sponsoring the event. At first I thought it was the company's obliviousness to irony that prompted the fashion... Read more »
Pink is the new justice
"I took my gang of several hundred women, all with leki sticks, we surrounded the police station, we beat the police officers sitting outside the station. Then other policemen came out with their leki sticks, our women then got very aggressive and starting beating the police...and then we tied them... Read more »
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