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Rural women across Africa continue to suffer from various constraints that inhibit them from producing food including lack of credit, lack of training, lack of updated information as well as overwork. Rural women also get exposed to agrochemicals, most of which they

When located geographically, in strife and in conflict there is no peaceful past to remember, in the hope that memory will provide some solace in the traumatic present. Seeking distance from the current situation, trying to make sense of the

Interpreting a Folio from a Kangra Gita Govinda   Fig. 1: In the Gita Govinda, the sakhi persuades Radha to meet Krishna (c. 1820–1825), Ink and colour on paper, Bequest of Mrs Severance A. Millikin, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

The Politics of ‘Apolitical’ Films In a neoliberal world, where cultural industries appropriate emotions and affective spaces, it would be unrealistic to expect popular mainstream films to portray social reality or to invite critical deliberations through cultural texts. Yet we often encounter

Renu was about to start her day on a bright morning when she got her monthly periods. All her plans for the day, including the next five days, were shattered because she had to confine herself in the cowshed and live

(Painting: Courtesy Shameela Yoosuf Ali) Mothers and Lovers in Tamil Cinema: Ashok Kumar (1941) and Mangayarkarasi (1949) Abstract: This essay engages with two Tamil films, Ashok Kumar (1941) and Mangayarkarasi (1949), to explore female desire through the roles portrayed by

I began commuting to the city for the first time in my working life in 2016. I would get off the bus in the city and see a man sitting on a street corner, then another person up the road and

Like this, like that Like Here, like there Friend, enemy Life, death All the same  All is he… – Shah Abdul Latif (1689-1752) For millennia, movement has been central to the existence of human communities across the world.  The nomad’s

My days at university were filled with the evolving rights for women – the first test-tube baby, the pill, first women’s refuge, brave new feminist literature including ‘The Female Eunuch’, gender equality, the first International Women’s Day. When I wrote ‘Shadows of

In the past year, the film fraternity in India has had to deal with a spate of new concerted assaults by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), which could fundamentally alter the future of filmmaking and the extant film cultures in