Raghuram G. Rajan explains why so many previously discredited economic policies have become easier to sell to the public.

While Vyasa’s Mahabharata might be of an intimidating length, Mahasweta Devi’s After Kurukshetra starts and finishes within 53 pages. Yet, Devi successfully manages to produce a clear, loud critique...

Fisherwomen transformed local society by taking on dominant caste landlords in Bihar

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

In premodern England, peasants organized football games over enclosed land. Today, fans have gotten together to buy teams from corrupt owners. The beautiful game has always shaped the culture of the...

On Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy.

The share of contract workers in India’s formal manufacturing workforce has grown from 23.1% in 2002-03 to 40.2% in 2021-22.

What is a feminist methodology? Academicians and scholars of gender and feminist studies have focused on feminist research methodology since the introduction of gender studies as a course in univer…

Less time for leisure and self-care can affect building community and result in isolation.

Ashwini Deshpande argues that while customs can be constraining, there is substantial unmet demand among women for paid work.

Economist Walt Rostow advanced an influential development theory while working as an adviser to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Rostow’s advocacy of murderous violence in Vietnam flowed di…

“It is surprising,” Marnie Holborow writes, “how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked.” In responding to this gap in analysis…

Although some domestic staff in the subcontinent are treated well, for most it is a harsh and thankless existence, says freelance journalist Amrit Dhillon

Publishing houses such as Kali for Women, Zubaan, Women Unlimited, etc. have pushed the boundaries and made way for feminist publishing.

The story of Aideu Handique is an important one that needs to be told; after all she was the first ever Assamese actress! But that is not the only reason why her tale is so important.

Climate change is real and its impact is visible to those of us living in India's Northeast. Northeast India lies in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot and has

25 years ago, Nirmala Banerjee wrote the piece “How Real is the Bogey of Feminization?” in which she stated that “there are no obvious reasons why (feminization of the Indian workforce) should take...

The 2021 Census has been indefinitely postponed with doubts about whether the 150-year-old Census of India will even continue in its present form. The governments of both colonial and independent...

There is a long-standing debate on how economics as a subject is gender blind giving rise to various branches within the subject that seek to address ‘the woman question’ (as early feminism has bee…

On taking power, Narendra Modi’s government claimed that it would address a wave of sexual violence and raise the status of Indian women. But things have got worse for women under Modi’s rule, with a...

An implacable and inclusive feminism remains essential for building the larger solidarity politics and economics we need for a Great Transition that eliminates oppression of all kinds.