Pritha Vashishth is a Mumbai-based journalist who writes about human rights, society, and culture. She is the author of two published poetry collections, Mihir and Mayur Pida. She can be contacted at pritha.vashishth@outlookindia.com.
For sixty years, Parsiana has documented the everyday and the extraordinary within the Parsi world — from births and weddings to debates on faith, identity and change. As the magazine prepares to close this month, it leaves behind an unmatched record of a community that has both preserved and transformed its traditions.
At the RSS’s centenary events in Nagpur, Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat and former President Ram Nath Kovind spoke of harmony, inclusion, and social unity. Yet beneath the new language of reform lies an older grammar of hierarchy, as the Sangh’s vision of equality continues to be framed within the bounds of Hindutva.
In Nagpur, Outlook steps inside the Rashtra Sevika Samiti to uncover how women in the RSS are redefining faith, discipline, and nationalism. Through conversations with RSS women leaders and followers of Laxmibai Kelkar, the feature examines the Samiti’s influence within the Sangh Parivar and its vision of womanhood in Hinduism today.
At Rashtra Sevika Samiti shakhas, women are offered empowerment—but only to a certain extent. Their roles remain largely defined: mothers, cultural custodians and loyal citizens
Founded on the same day in 1925 by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the Sangh marked the occasion with its annual gathering at the site of its first shakha (RSS Meeting)
What began in 2018 as a commemoration of anti-caste resistance turned into an eight-year-long legal ordeal, with 16 lawyers, poets, professors and activists jailed under anti-terror laws—many without trial, and some still behind bars today
Educate Girls, founded by Safeena Husain, won the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Prize. The non-profit organisation has big plans to expand their reach in mobilising community and government resources for girls' education in rural areas
Gauri Lankesh's unfinished editorial spoke of blurred truths and silenced voices, echoes that feel sharper in today’s India.
Led by activist Manoj Jarange Patil, Marathas across Marathwada and Beed protest against the government’s dual reservation policy in Mumbai, insisting on proper verification of Satara and Hyderabad Gazette records to secure Kunbi status.
The very women who formed the backbone of implementation—ASHA and anganwadi workers—are themselves among those excluded in this scheme.
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