Violent evictions from streets, abuse and brutality are routine for street vendors. A law to protect their rights suffers from flawed implementation

Government policies oblivious to gender and caste inequities leave women livestock farmers from lowered communities without economic safety nets.

In cities like Lucknow and Varanasi, multiple barriers prevent queer women from accessing safe mental healthcare. Some of them turn to their community for comfort.

Historian Uma Chakravarti on Pandita Ramabai’s radical photographs of conjugality and its discontents.

Indian history is replete with biographical and regional details regarding spatial and sartorial separation of women from men

In India’s cheapest second-hand clothes market, women have to reclaim public spaces to assert their right to livelihood constantly

Of the millions of workers who worked in India’s factories in 2019-20, less than a fifth were women. This share has remained largely unchanged for over two decades

With limited support structures, India’s LGBTQIA+ community has to work harder to plan for ageing and infirmity

Few women in impoverished packets of rural Maharashtra are aware of government welfare schemes or do not have the documents to access them