Movie Review: Thappad
Anubhav Sinha's Thappad isn't really about domestic violence — it's about a woman's self-respect. A thoughtful review of Taapsee Pannu's landmark performance.
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Too many women leave financial decisions to their husbands. Four reasons women should take charge of their financial health — and a note for the men too.
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.

In 2014, Suchitra Sharma called out shoe-sale ads that portrayed women as deal-obsessed dimwits. A prescient media critique, from the TI archives.
In 2014, Antalya opened a women-only beach. Supporters called it freedom and safety; critics called it a step backward. TI's 2014 report on the controversy.

In October 2013, Saudi women defied the driving ban by filming themselves behind the wheel — joined by a viral Bob Marley parody. The ban fell in 2018.

How Hindu women celebrate Karva Chauth: the dawn-to-moonrise fast, the rituals, and the colorful state-by-state variations across India.

From clothing sizes to wages to workplace respect, plus-size women face bias everywhere — and exercise isn't the whole answer.

Pew's 2013 'Breadwinner Moms' report: 40% of US households with kids have moms as primary or sole earners, up from 11% in 1960.

In 2012 India recorded 24,923 rapes with a 24% conviction rate — and behind every number was a woman. A 2013 editorial on the stories that forced a nation
Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In argued women hold themselves back at work. The backlash said the system holds them back. Inside one of 2013's fiercest debates.

The National Commission for Women and some parliamentarians on Monday came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band 'Pragaash' whose singing was…

Women were told to fear the weight room. The men had it right all along: lift heavy, eat enough, rest — and stop doing endless cardio.

Ten fitness goals worth chasing — from a 5K to a two-minute plank to a sunrise yoga practice. A bucket list for women who want to feel strong.

Anne-Marie Slaughter's July 2012 Atlantic essay — written after leaving her State Department post for her family — argued that 'having it all' was never

The beauty industry sells empowerment in a tube — but the daily ritual of makeup, products, and perfection has a price. An essay on the pressure.

Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.

Whiskey was never actually a men's drink — it just had a men's marketing budget. On women claiming their pour, neat or on the rocks.

A survey claimed women spend five hours a day gossiping. The methodology collapses under scrutiny — and the stereotype it feeds has a long history.

Maitreyee Rajaput, Arti Jain and Charmy Sheth swept the top three CA final ranks in 2011 — and girls outscored boys on pass percentage too.

Why do women stay in toxic relationships? Trauma bonding, real structural constraints, and double-bind social pressure explain it better than the question

In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.

Women in South Asia were 37% less likely than men to own a phone. In 2010, a Clinton- and Blair-backed push called mWomen set out to close that gap.

For young Muslim women in the West, choosing the hijab is often an assertion of agency and ambition — not the retreat from modernity the debate assumes.

Girls match boys in early math performance, then the STEM gap opens. The evidence says it is a social and structural phenomenon — not biology.

Hair is at once trivial and profound — a primary medium through which women negotiate identity, conformity, and rebellion. Why it matters.