Feminism
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Is Pakistan primitive?
An intolerant minority sets the menu for everyone, in a comment thread and in a country. For two months we moderated so carefully against Islamophobia that we let the confinement…
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Sexual selection by Indian Society and its implications
Nachiketa starts from Darwin’s puzzle of the peacock’s tail to argue that in India sexual selection is a task for the whole family and society, with arranged-marriage middlemen able to…
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What is “Brahmanical” in Indian Patriarchy ?
Nachiketa examines the slogan ‘Smash Brahmanical Patriarchy’ after Jack Dorsey’s 2018 photo-op, arguing that ‘Brahmanical’ has become a catch-all political label and probing how much of Indian patriarchy can fairly…
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The ghost of empire and the origin of all repression
Responding to a New York Times op-ed on British feminism and empire, the author argues that progressive claims that binary gender was imposed on South Asians by the West are…
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Aqlima. Daughter of Adam
An English translation, by Ruchira Paul, of Fahmida Riaz’s Urdu poem Aqlima, about the sister of Cain and Abel, posted with the Urdu text and an audio recording in the…
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An X-Y feminist
The author argues that men can be feminists, that feminism and humanism amount to the same thing, and that the decision on abortion belongs wholly to the woman, with subsidised…
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A seedling (ankur) is 40 years
A tribute to Shabana Azmi on 40 years since Ankur, with extracts from an interview, ranking Hindi film actresses and criticising her over her relationship with Javed Akhtar, offered in…
