Women need to become professional troublemakers: Meena Kandasamy

Criticizing the pro-LLRC US resolution passed at Geneva, Tamil Nadu based writer, activist and poet, Meena Kandasamy argues that Carrying out the diktats of such a document will only annihilate the genuine aspirations and right to self-determination ...

In Ramachandra Guha's recent book Patriots and Partisans, there is an interesting chapter titled The Rise and Fall of the Bi-lingual Intellectual. It focuses on the differing positions taken by Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore on the question ...

A recent story out of Delhi has the Twitterverse up in arms (thumbs? pointer fingers? whatever you type with). Kavita Krishnan, a prominent Delhi-based women's activist, was attacked viciously during a recent online chat on violence against women on ...

What does a top woman journalist do when she is threatened regularly with gang rape and stripping on Twitter? And what about when her teenage daughter's name and details of her class and school are tweeted too? "It was very disturbing. I didn't ...

You chose to christen April, "Dalit history month". Why? Well, in 2002 I was involved as an editorial consultant with a short-lived bimonthly magazine called The Dalit founded by Dalit Media Network, which also runs Dalit Murasu, a monthly in Tamil.

by Mahima Kaul Some of India's most prominant internet writers, researchers and policy analysts came together in Bangalore on 9 April to discuss "Strengthening Freedom of Expression on the Internet in India", organised by the . The subject has been ...

The day-long India Today Woman Summit & Awards 2013 held at The Hyatt Regency in New Delhi on Friday, April 19, 2013, threw light on women's status and what was needed to improve their standing in society. Prominent women speakers from all walks of ...

One of the respondents to her tweet, whose profile picture was the sacred Hindu symbol Om, asked her how she would react if someone wrote about the sex life of her parents without proof. Anshika said she wouldn't read the book. What followed was an ...

Is the online space as unsafe for women as the real world, especially if the woman in question is outspoken? The case of Adria Richards, a technology evangelist from San Francisco, has been trending on social networks over the past week, bringing to ...