Gender - Different Truths

April 18, 2022
Dr. Sudipta Mishra
Gender

Dear Woman, Let’s Rewrite Our Stories

Sudipta rues that a woman is judged by the society and calls upon the fair sex to rise and rewrite their stories. A new weekly column, beginning this Monday,...

April 10, 2022
Baishali Mukherjee
Gender

Udayan Care Empowers Underprivileged Girls

Gopa, Moumita, Mousumi and Nilima are girls from the underprivileged section of the society. With meagre income and uncertainties about futures, these girls were directed to a path of education, empowerment...

April 7, 2022
Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Gender, Opinion

Lata Samaddar’sBindi Bindi Incident: Freedom of Choice & Expression

Tabassum decries the harassment of a college teacher, Lata Samaddar, by a policeman, for wearing a teep (bindi). An exclusive for Different Truths. “Beautified the neck with the Pearl...

April 4, 2022
Farheen Viquas
Gender, Opinion, Politics

Muslim Women Must Reclaim Slowly-Slipping-Away Spaces in India

Muslim women have stepped out from faceless obscurity came together to protest for their rights, opined Farheen. An exclusive for Different Truths. The Muslim women rose from the ashes...

March 28, 2022
Rajul Tiwari
Gender, Health, Wellness

Why is a Woman Prone to Depression?

The pressures to perform ably at home are higher on women. They are enslaved to slog in the male-dominated society. Her complex physiology, pre-menopause and menopause, emotional vulnerability, lack of appreciation...

March 13, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment

In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....

March 13, 2022
Chirantan Sarkar
Cinema, Gender, Politics, Special Feature

A Narrative on Women, Feminism, Sexuality and Politics in Contemporary India

Sonia Gandhi’s unperturbed state in her husband’s funeral is acceptable to the urban and sophisticated Indians as Sonia Gandhi is cloning a ‘male’ behavior and thus striving to achieve...

March 13, 2022
Nilakshi Roy
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

…And Two Women Suffered

She was a slim, tall, elegant woman, too pretty to be a cook in our house, but as she was not very young, my mother kept her immediately. She...

March 12, 2022
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Opinion

Reflections on International Women’s Day: Do we Need it?

Hemashri reflects on the International Women’s Day and ponders with women against women, is such a day necessary? An exclusive for Different Truths. These days I really love snails...

March 12, 2022
Sriparna Dutta
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Empowerment, Feminism and the Hardyian Fallacy

Thomas Hardy’s heroines are not victims of sexual anesthesia. Sue is quite defiant in her stating her sexual preferences and never hesitates to be vocal about it. What is...

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