
War on Women
From Rati Agnihotri to Shweta Tiwari, brave women have walked out of abusive marriages. A personal essay on domestic violence — and why too many still stay.
18 articles

In Gujarat, a gang-rape survivor who was denied an abortion was ordered to undergo an 'agnipariksha' purity ritual before returning home — a test of

An NGO and Chandigarh Police rescued 63-year-old Sukhi, who had locked herself in her Sector 36 home for days, untreated and battling depression.

A 2014 conversation with Koral Dasgupta, author of Power of a Common Man — on Shah Rukh Khan’s marketing genius, her research with 2,000 fans, and writing

English Vinglish showed what it costs not to speak English in India; Anju Gattani on Shashi's quiet stand for her own worth.

A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving car by her husband and two relatives in west Delhi; all three attackers were arrested.

Blended-family chaos meets The Prince: one mom's Machiavellian experiments — Target budgets, school rivalries, and one well-timed white lie.

Why do women still give up their names at marriage while men never do? On identity, history, and the quiet pressure behind the tradition.

Romance author Sonali Dev shares seven rules for keeping the love alive when you're losing your mind — from holding hands to yelling it out.

A 2012 remark by a Karnataka High Court judge sparked outrage — but a national health survey found 54% of Indian women themselves said wife-beating could be

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

A prenup with a weight-gain penalty clause made headlines in 2012. Why body-policing contracts are legally shaky — and what they do to a marriage.

Friday cooking column Vol 5: a slow rajma in tomato-onion gravy, jeera rice, and cucumber raita — the weeknight reward meal.

This week's Friday table took us to Le Siam in Naperville for Tom Kha soup, crazy noodles, and Massaman curry — plus a home-style Tom Kha recipe to try

The Friday cooking column continues with Mrinalini Sen's Easy Breezy Bhindi, a Bengali Sorshe-Posto style okra preparation with mustard-poppy paste.

A Meerut bride tied a rakhi to her husband to reunite with her lover, then the lover dumped her. The strange, sad twist in a viral UP story.

Valentine's Day is a floor, not a ceiling. What actually sustains love: appreciation, attention, repair, and affection -- practiced every day.

One wants to go to the party, the other refuses. How couples handle the Saturday-night standoff says a lot about the marriage itself.