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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Topic: Feminism

Sonam Kapoor’s name change – choice feminism or blatant patriarchy?

ThePrint's young team weighs in on whether Sonam Kapoor's decision to take on her husband's name undercuts her feminism.

Veere Di Wedding: Bollywood needs better education. Maybe a sociology class?

The movie’s trailer and song objectifies men, exactly in the same manner that women have been objectified in Bollywood for decades.

Chetan Bhagat to V.S. Naipaul: Why do male authors fail to create real women characters?

It’s an incredible disservice to women to continue to reduce them to blank canvasses waiting for male protagonists to paint them over.

‘Listen to the kids, bruh’: Even Kanye West knows how to treat students better than India

A quick search of the last few years of student protests will throw up a common theme of dampened dissent, active slander, and disenfranchisement of students as political stakeholders in the world they live in.

Indian film stars should be politically active, says Tannishtha Chatterjee

Chatterjee says censorship is one of the biggest issues the Indian film industry faces, stresses the need to question powerful institutions.

Here’s what’s still holding working women back in 2018

Women are still paid less, female bosses are still in the minority and motherhood still carries the risk of total career derailment.

They offer free spas on Women’s Day and call us ungrateful angry feminists rest of the year

My problem is with the false sense of activism that women's day provides to companies for thinking they are contributing to the women’s movement.

‘Butterfly Politics’ is a mirror to reflect on miles covered for gender equality

Mackinnon’s understanding of concepts of power, privilege and intellectual freedom isn’t just universal, but also prophetic.

Why is Sabyasachi shaming women who can’t drape sarees but not men who can’t tie dhotis?

Castigating Indian women is convenient, lazy and unpleasantly paternalistic.

‘Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet’: A cultural lesson for the decade

Mineke Schipper’s book is an analyse of the many proverbs that talk about women across cultures, geographies and time periods and how they came about.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.