Women holding placards against patriarchy, marital rape, and the burden of intergenerational silence. Aurat March Karachi, 10 May 2026. Photo by Abdullah Zahid/ Sapan News.

Aurat March is About Women's Identity: Movement for Gender Justice in Pakistan and Across the Region

Two girls stood silently holding a placard that read: ‘Forcing your daughter to get married is forcing her to get raped.’ The message speaks to a reality across the South Asian region where the priority for most families is to get their daughters married. On a sheet where attendees were penning messages to their mothers -- words they could not say aloud -- an anonymous note read: “Would you rather see me married or alive?”

Homage to an Iconic Ray Film Whose Popularity Spans Generations and Cultures

The result was a phenomenal script with a stellar cast and a music which not only took the storyline ahead but also paused to reflect upon each moment. Satyajit’s rendition of the story has several of his beliefs reflected, including his anti-war stance, his love for performative arts, including various forms of classical dance, his love for history and regional history, amidst others, his stance against caste and class discrimination and oppression of the poor and the tyranny and subjugation of the ruling class

How a Russian-Jewish Bride Internalised Santiniketan: Arc of a Family History Book-Ended by the Russian Revolution and Indian Independence Across Three Generations and Three Continents

It is a neat division and the first part of 70 pages is the Kotia-Ketaki memoir.  In the second section, Chandana picks up the narrative  and weaves the micro family history of the Jonas family with the macro events of the late 19th century and her grandmother's  journey that brought her to Santiniketan  in the 20th century.
 

A Scientist’s Rebuttal to the "Hellhole" Rhetoric: Why the West Misjudges Global Happiness

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