'Men and others have rage, we, women have our laughter': Women authors and editors talk about feminism, literature, patriarchy, and economy at the Bihar literature festival.
Hijab is not merely a piece of cloth or a ploy in the hands of either the imperialists or the Taliban. It is rather an assertion, a voice against the imposed uniformity.
The most interesting part of rewriting of Ramayana as Sitayana seems to be the way Mallika Sengupta describes Valmiki's decision of making Rama a bit soft and portraying Sita as a passive sufferer as such portraits, he...
A woman across regions, castes and classes is always judged by how she presents herself. Women’s personal problems are essentially political problems because they are caused by socio-economic inequality and can be solved...
Cyberfeminism has attracted attention the world over and women are coming together online through various social media campaigns to offer solidarity with those under theocratic or politically conservative regimes.
Iran summoned Norway's envoy to protest the comment by the President of Norway's Parliament on the custodial death of a woman in Iran over hijab rules. It also summoned UK envoy for hosting critical Farsi media.
Known as modern India’s first female teacher, Savitribai Phule was an exponent of female education, equality and justice who took on the caste system with her revolutionary ideals and strived to dismantle the...
In light of the Depp-Heard trial, Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha talks to Bangladeshi artist Tayeba Begum Lipi on her art, the need for collectives, feminism, and patriarchy affecting women's actions.
When schools are closed, most recently due to rising Covid-19 cases, boys go to work as labourers and girls are hastily married off, an Aurangabad MLC writes...
Parenting and academia — never easy bedfellows — are particularly difficult for single mothers balancing high teaching loads. As a divorced Indian-American...
Born as Gloria Jean Watkins, she took her pen name as bell hooks and insisted on writing her name in lower case letters to emphasize, 'the substance of books'...
Draupadi’s tribe increases by the day. There are many injustices, a lot of pain and violence out there.
The Club House debates, in general, throw up pictures of a Malayali society that is making giant strides towards a more emancipatory future. They also present...
Budhini Mejhan, a unique victim of the Nehruvian dream, stands for other unfortunates. This novel intensifies her story.
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While speaking to Outlook, writer-activist Meena Kandasamy talks about politics, literature, feminism, reservation, Periyarism and poses a few questions to the...
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I assess the fairplay of alternative-feminism in the subdued discourse of Koral Dasgupta in Ahalya when she talks with clarity, precision and balance about...
It was not until when I tried to understand feminism that I fathomed that the casual acts of sexism are not so casual after all.
An Australian author and poet, Dr. Anita Heiss has seeped conversations surrounding social justice and identity into popular fiction. ‘Growing Up Aboriginal...
It's a transformative moment, yet itself marked by gaps and gnawing absences. Can we integrate #MeToo and older feminist politics? Can we close the caste/class...
"My husband and I have spoken about it and we have decided that whenever we have a child, the child will have Mirza Malik as a surname and not just Malik."
Raya Sarkar’s letter reveals a feminism that seeks to fight patriarchy with Stalinist methods, discarding human warmth and personal engagement
Feminism is definitely intersectional. Sometimes you need to move very slowly, sometimes quickly—and temper anger with clear-sightedness.
Enraged you get. Yet, let the accused tell his side of the story.
