By Gaurav Jain तुम कहोगे वो व्यंग्य का तंज ना समझ पाए काव्य का रस क्या समझेंगे । फिर तुम्हारी कविता के एक एक अक्षर की होगी चीरफाड़ और फिर से तुम पर सब बरसेंगे । (You’ll say, they didn’t even get the taunt of sarcasm What will they get of the essence of poetry. Again each letter of your poem will be torn apart And they’ll rain down on you again.)...

  Payal Tadvi By Nisha Susan If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have heard women asking each other for the numbers of non-judgemental gynaecologists. Non-judgmental gynaecologists is what they ask for, not women gynaecologists. The medical system makes it amply clear that women doctors can be as emblematic of the horror-movie patriarchy...

By Nisha Susan My schoolmates and I read the news that Jokha Alharthi had won the Man Booker International with a thrill. At last we could read about our childhood home Oman in a novel, we texted each other yesterday. We left school in Muscat a couple years before the Internet so all we knew about Oman when we lived there was from the heavily sanitised...

By Gaurav Jain Spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones. Pepper Potts arrives for the fight in an Iron Woman suit and Valkyrie swoops down in her winged horse, but Black Widow gets the chop. Or in Marvel style, she gets splayed picturesquely at the bottom of a cliff after a deliberate suicide jump. In Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow...

By Nisha Susan My friends and I like to retell a story about a well-known Bangalore feminist who passed away a few years ago. Two stories actually. One that when her husband brought home, over her objections, a friend with a reputation for being abusive to his wife, she left the house and sat on the footpath and told everyone who asked her why she...

By Gaurav Jain Protests at the Supreme Court. Image via Twitter @DeshdeepDU The Supreme Court’s special in-house committee investigating sexual harassment accusations against the Chief Justice of India (CJI), Ranjan Gogoi, has given its verdict—it found “no substance” in the allegations and has exonerated him completely. The SC’s Secretary General...