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Saturday, March 7, 2026
TopicWomen writers

Topic: Women writers

From Rashid un-Nisa to Anandibai Joshi, how women shaped India’s literary history

A seminar organised by the All India Women’s Conference paid tribute to the 'literary mothers' and pioneers who chronicled the female experience.

Women of suspense: The female crime writers reimagining power and vulnerability

Authors Hemangini Dutta Majumder, Vasundhara Kashyap & Richa S. Mukherjee discuss crime fiction & reality at a session led by Payal Raman at 1st Jindal Literature Festival.

How women shaped Lokah—India’s first female superhero film

In Lokah, the yakshi isn’t just reimagined but given a hybrid backstory, where the condition of being a vampire is traced to a virus.

‘No one can touch me’—Harassment charge against Krishna Kalpit shakes Hindi literary world

A young poet spoke up about being sexually harassed by a senior writer at Nayi Dhara's residency programme in Patna. Now Hindi literary world is confronting a long-ignored rot.

Bapsi Sidhwa’s writing was an act of reclamation. ‘It’s fashionable to kick Pakistan’

The Pakistani writer chose English as her language of creative expression. ‘One can get away with writing in English what you can't writing in Urdu,’ she said.

Male gaze has met its match. Women writers are rewriting Bollywood, Aarya to Rocky Aur Rani

A growing tribe of women screenwriters, through the female gaze, are creating nuanced characters that defy tropes and telling richer, more layered stories as a result.

Single women at work: a challenge in male-driven offices

In Lady, You're the Boss, Apurva Purohit tells us with anecdotes and examples about the peculiar barbs single women face at work.

On Camera

A ship attack has shaken Asia’s faith in the US

Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.

Amid the new war in Middle East, ‘God’ surfaces in oil and commodities contracts

Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.