Archiving Feminisms in South Asia

Gender ratio in India’s top 6 universities (according to the latest Times Higher Ed Rankings) as compared to that of the world’s top 6.

The oddity of gender roles become apparent when a specific gender becomes the prefix to a profession, such as ‘woman artist’ of ‘female…

Bollywood’s first female comedian and former playback singer

One single actor plays the role of several women ; the school-going child, the young woman who is married to patriarchal rules; the young…

Asia First Female Cinematographer

The unrevealed story of India’s famous surbahar player of classical hindustani music.

The Dalit woman who became a Sanskrit teacher

The only Dalit woman in the Constituent Assembly

The first woman to become a High Court judge in India, and the British Commonwealth.

India’s first female actress in the first Malayalam cinema