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    ‘Durga’s Hundi,’ — Poetry by Anish Kumar

    • July 22, 2018
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    Durga’s Hundi Pray to Hanuman he told his child — urging him forward with a five-dollar bill — He will make you strong. He circled Hanuman, praying his child would[…]

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    That’s What She Said: Bollywood Dialogues Spoken By Women

    • November 17, 2017
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    Iconic filmy dialogues pepper the mundane minutiae of our everyday lives with some much-needed punch and melodrama. What would Bollywood be without these dialogues, timed so perfectly that the audience[…]

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    Daughters of Destiny: Education, Caste, & Gender Struggles In India

    • August 18, 2017
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    In early August, Netflix put out a four-part documentary by Oscar-winning director Vanessa Roth called Daughters of Destiny, about Shanti Bhavan (in Hindi: “haven of peace”), a residential school in Tamil Nadu[…]

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    Read An Excerpt From Shikhandi, or Other Stories They Don’t Tell You, by Devdutt Pattanaik

    • October 21, 2015
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    Shikhandi, or Other Stories They Don’t Tell You, by Devdutt Pattanaik, explains that queerness isn’t only modern, Western, or sexual. Rather, by looking at the vast written and oral traditions of Hinduism,[…]

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    How Satya Nadella Sounds a Lot Like My Brother, And Why That Is Not A Good Thing

    • October 18, 2014
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    I had just emerged from teaching a class in media studies at Seattle University last Thursday when I saw numerous posts on social media about remarks made by Satya Nadella.[…]

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    New Crowdcreated Book Offers Raw, Authentic Stories From Women in Tech

    • September 30, 2014
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    Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya’s book, Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, is not an ordinary book. I started reading it with the expectation that it would follow the[…]

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    More Than a Piece of Tandoori Chicken: A Woman’s Worth in Hindi Cinema

    • July 18, 2013
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    Nearly 90 percent of all violent crimes reported in India are crimes against women. This year’s United Nations Human Development Report (PDF) suggests that with the exception of Afghanistan, India[…]

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