This week in BehanVox: A photo story of natural farming practices of Bhil women, spaceflight packed with celebrity women, celluloid battle over ‘Phule’, and more

This month in Postcards: A home-cooked meal during field reporting, the joy of public baths, cat companions, freedom found in cycles and scooters, and more

This week in BehanVox: ASHA workers’ protest an attendance app, Allahabad High Court’s sustained misogyny, and histories of India’s women jazz pioneers

This week in BehanVox: a conversation on Dalit History Month, UK’s decision to screen ‘Adolescence’ in schools, and stories of female construction workers struggling to access maternity schemes.

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This week in BehanVox: life on Powai’s footpaths, ASHA workers’ ongoing strike, and the politics of hope.

This month in Postcards: a feminist march, cookbook for one, and women’s labour powering papal decision making.

In popular culture, Delhi often remains a cliche. You rarely see its informal women workers except as footnotes. We have compiled here a list of films, books and art works where their unseen lives are recorded with veracity and compassion

We asked women who we report on and are inspired by to tell us what or who gives them hope, or what they would like to see change in 2025. These are their stories.

In conversation with playwright Jyoti Dogra, whose new play Maas discusses patriarchy, capitalism and our bodies

The annual Mahaparinirvan Din means many things for the women who throng the annual event in Mumbai to mark Dr.Ambedkar’s life and work

Women’s Urdu was pungent, it drew from the world around, and it makes for great theatre

A heritage walk looks at the capital city’s historic and contemporary spaces through the queer lens, revealing some less known insights

Digital illustrator Ritika Gupta talks about the significance of the digital medium for neurodivergent artists and why community networks for disabled artists must thrive

Theatre can be a powerful, joyful medium for the trans gender community to make its voice heard

Godna, the fine art of tattoo painting, is practised by Dalit Dusadh women. Its approach, raw material, and themes are nothing like the more popular Mithila artwork

The country is partitioned. India is independent. Crowds of people are pouring in from East Pakistan—from Jessore, Khulna, Barisal, Faridpur, via Kushtia and the border at […]

Hyderabad has had a 150-year-long history of women writing prose in Urdu, a longer one of poetry and other oral and creative expressions. But we know […]