Shweta Krishnan
Mad adj. crazy, nuts, loony, mental, insane. adj. angry, frustrated, raging. No one is a better drama queen than William…
Two weeks before India’s Daughter made it to the headlines, I came across this new pledge for Delhi school kids,…
Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
Ruth Vanita is an academic, activist and author, who specialises in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies and South Asian…
Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and a political and social activist. She is a professor of political thought at…
In December TARSHI interviewed Anita Ratnam, who is a leading Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer based in Chennai. In her own…
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…
Popular science stories can be exciting, educative and a lot of fun to read. But sometimes we come across that…
As a teenager, I played tennis with friends, both male and female. Mostly we played with whoever was available to…
It is almost a year old, but the Abused Goddesses campaign created ripples in the fabric of activism that are…
No two human bodies are alike, and our different bodies arouse curiosity. But our fascination for the aesthetics of the perfect human body has historically created a space within art, science and religion for the examination of the ‘abnormal’ and the ‘imperfect’. As a result, some bodies are normalised while others become oddities.
Dr Suchitra Dalvie best known for her strong pro-choice views and her unflinching support for safe abortion, is also a blogger and a book lover, with deep insights into feminism and women’s rights.
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…