September 2023

Boys don’t cry. Boys will be boys. Don’t cry like a girl. Be a man. Real men don’t do that. International Men’s Day falls on 19th November and one of the things it strives for is for men to be comfortable in all aspects of being a human. The focus is on bringing positive role […]

“I’ve never thought money was an issue. That’s because you have it” The most popular sitcoms of late 1990’s and early 2000’s Friends, aired a restaurant scene where 6 of the closest friends realise how having different access to money could be an issue. These are friends who are close to each other, and discuss

Feminist photographer and PhD Scholar Sanjukta Basu conducted a Gender and Public Space project in 2017 by traveling to five Indian cities to document how Indian women access these public spaces. Public parks were rarely visited by women in Delhi and Hyderabad, with women accessing these spaces in Hyderabad if they were smaller and all

How we made machines racist and they in turn biased humans back, a cautionary tale of the blind spots of data and artificial intelligence But who taught them to be biased? Is this only about not finding the right fit? The significance of this incident is slightly beyond that, it’s regarding how many practices and

Recently I came across this book, “Our separate ways: Black and White women and the struggle for professional identity” by Ella Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo which was the second edition published last year of the earlier edition from 20 years ago.  The main aim of this book was to compare the professional experiences

For those of us who work and research various aspects of inclusion, it isn’t possible to indulge in pop culture without analysing it. A lot of serials and songs one would have  heard earlier, have to now pass through a test, which now runs parallel, unconsciously sieving. When I watched Modern Family (2009-2020) a couple