A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
Deepika talks about #MyChoice and the stream of opinionated op-eds, articles, Facebook statuses, angry YouTube comments and comment wars begins. Everyone’s out to prove their point, as usual. Nobody really[…]
India’s first female professional surfer, Ishita Malaviya, recently came to California to visit friends, hang with the folks at Brown Girl Surf, and attend the San Diego Surf Film Festival.[…]
My Body Is Not Your Battleground is a two-part photographic exploration of what it means to be a South Asian woman today, specifically in terms of identity, religion, education, employment[…]
The Gulabi Gang is an Indian women’s group of pink sari-wearing vigilantes who wield laathis (bamboo sticks) and tackle domestic abuse and other violence against women, in addition to other[…]
Amana Fontanella-Khan’s book Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India tells the story of Sampat Pal and her Gulabi Gang, a vigilante group of women and activists originally[…]
India speaks 780 languages, 200 lost in last 50 years. Ganesh Devy supervised the People’s Linguistic Survey of India, the first comprehensive survey of Indian languages conducted in the last[…]
Today an Indian court convicted four men accused of the rape of a 23-year old woman in New Delhi last December. Tomorrow, we find out whether or not the four men[…]
On July 12, Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani girl whom a Taliban militant shot in the head last October while she was riding home from school, stood before the United[…]
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[…]
In the wake of the tragic April 24 factory collapse in Bangladesh, the garment industry has come under fire for lax safety standards and weak protection of workers’ rights. These criticisms are[…]
