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The Water Phoenix By Rituparna Chatterjee Is A Magic Realism Memoir, An Excerpt
The Water Phoenix by Rituparna Chatterjee gives voice to victims of abuse who still find it difficult to speak of their trauma in today’s India.
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With Renewed Hindutva Resurgence, Are Women More Vulnerable?
Now that the dust is settling on social media polemic and disassembling of the election results, let’s take a look where certain issues close to the core wellbeing of women — especially sexual violence — stand in the wake of a second term of the BJP-led Narendra Modi government. When the second wave of the […]
#MeToo Movement in India: Here Are Ten Most Powerful Comments
Few had thought India’s would find a collective voice against sexual harassment. India has not had a safe environment for women and that’s the one thing that’s come out of the recent #MeToo stories. What’s worse is that we’ve failed to hear Indian women out. However, recent campaigns are giving us hope. Survivors are coming […]
How To Compliment Women On Their Bodies Without Fat-Shaming
I was around 27 or 28, the age at which I was pretty clueless about which direction my love life was taking, when one day, during a casual discussion at work about forming meaningful, adult relationships, a junior colleague piped up: “but you’re fat”, attempting to take the sting out of the repugnant comment with […]
Discouragement Holds Back Women From Pitching Their Work: Kanika Mishra
Kanika Mishra says, “So, I think discouragement is the main reason which holds women back from pitching their work.” Continuing the conversation from “Why We Need More Women in Editorial Cartooning” Rituparna Chatterjee spoke to Kanika Mishra, the maker of popular woman cartoon character ‘Karnika Kahen’ to know more about her struggle to establish herself as a cartoonist and why […]
Why We Need More Women in Editorial Cartooning
Earlier this month, cartoonist Kshitij Bajpai got a shoutout on Twitter from a very important person. Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged an illustration Bajpai had made of him after attending an election rally in Mangaluru, Karnataka. “Lovely gesture Kshitij. Thank you. You are an extremely talented artist,” Modi said. For any artist, high praise from […]
Bemoan not the Loss of Male Bonding but the Stifling of Female Friendships
There’s a common factor binding characters in popular fiction celebrating male friendships – a loyalty that offsets the moments of moral conflict and amplifies the generosity of spirit. I always found it odd that women characters are not accorded the same respect in similar spaces. It’s male victimhood at its prime to feel domesticated by […]
Yes! Food Sexism Exists And PepsiCo’s Lady Doritos Has Proved It
Last week PepsiCo announced that it would release a new brand of Doritos chops, called Lady Doritos. These are apparently a less crunchy, quieter chip. It turns out there is a difference in the way men and women eat. Pepsi CEO, Nooyi has said that women don’t like to crunch too loudly in public. And […]
