Kamla Bhasin is an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Her work spans across 35 years and focuses on gender, education, human development and the media. Best known for her work on the NGO Sangat- a South Asian network of feminists, and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai. In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the … Continue reading Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
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Atypical Hibernation
I spent my first Canadian winter in home-confinement. I had never experienced snow or lived in extreme winter conditions before. Snow had merely been a childhood fantasy, picked up from Russian fairy-tales. My husband was transferred to Calgary, a booming oil-city in Western Canada by his company in Singapore. He started working almost immediately and … Continue reading Atypical Hibernation
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C. S. Lakshmi is an Indian feminist writer and independent researcher in women's studies from India. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai. Lakshmi was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in 1944. She grew up in Mumbai and Bangalore. She obtained her M.A in Bangalore and her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her dissertation … Continue reading Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
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Malini Chib is an Indian disability rights activist and author who has cerebral palsy. Chib wrote the book One Little Finger over the course of two years by typing with only one finger. Malini was born in Calcutta, India in 1966. She suffered from a loss of oxygen during birth causing cerebral palsy. Her parents … Continue reading Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
The Curious Case of the Missing Working Dads!
First things first, this wasn’t what I set out to write. It was supposed to be a piece on working mothers. The quintessential supermom who aces at work, manages kids like it’s a child’s play, cooks up the most healthy and tasty meals without a hair out of place. Yeah, the kind legends are made … Continue reading The Curious Case of the Missing Working Dads!
INCREDIBLE WOMEN OF INDIA 