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Business News > Mint Authors > Ashwaq Masoodi

Ashwaq Masoodi

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY ASHWAQ MASOODI

Ram Bahadur Rai was jailed during the Emergency (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Lessons for freedom from the Emergency

9 min read . 15 Aug 2019

Dutee Chand’s village—Chaka Gopalpur (Photo: Arabinda Mahapatra/Mint)

When new-age love came to Dutee Chand’s village

10 min read . 28 May 2019

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally in Prayagraj, India, Thursday, May 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Opinion: A failure to imagine what a faulty democracy is like

4 min read . 10 May 2019

A slum cluster in Ekta Vihar (Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Narendra Modi fandom trumps Delhi’s class divide

10 min read . 06 May 2019

Women in the main campus, as well as the Women’s College, are predominantly dressed in abayas, burqas, or some form of hijab (PTI)

Being a feminist in conservative Aligarh Muslim University

10 min read . 29 Apr 2019

There is no single Muslim identity in India, but today there is an unequivocal sense of being identified as “the other”. (AFP)

Opinion | Why the Muslim voter decided to be silent spectator in Elections 2019

3 min read . 10 Apr 2019

A woman with her two-month-old daughter waiting outside the child malnutrition treatment centre at Chaibasa in West Singhbhum district. (Photos: Priyanka Parashar/Mint)

Inside Jharkhand's Singhbhum, the worst constituency in India

9 min read . 26 Mar 2019

Joining the India story: Rise of the Muslim middle

18 min read . 24 Jan 2019

Photos: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

A trip to Manipur’s Kangathei, where a boxing star was born

10 min read . 21 Dec 2018

In cases involving sexual harassment at the workplace, lawyers say that there is hardly ever a witness who will depose in court. Photo: iStock

What happens when #MeToo goes to court

10 min read . 25 Oct 2018

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Manek Chowk in Porbandar’s Bhatia Bazar area. Photo: Nandan Dave/Mint

Searching for Gandhi

15 min read . 02 Oct 2018

Photos: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Welcome to Humayunpur, Delhi’s North-East outpost

10 min read . 28 Sep 2018

Photo: Shutterstock. (All photographs have been used for representational purposes only)

Sex and the village: The sexual lives of rural Indian women

15 min read . 24 Sep 2018

If a product is not tried and tested, the agents or even some street vendors bring a sample at first. Only if it works do they get the items in bulk. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Inside the supply chain of urban street vendors

8 min read . 22 Aug 2018

Representational picture. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Life and death in Delhi’s underbelly

7 min read . 09 Aug 2018

Manisha Mashaal from the NGO Swabhimaan Society takes a selfie with anti-caste activists in Kurukshetra.

Dalit women are brewing their own social revolution

8 min read . 06 Aug 2018

A 2016 ‘Lancet’ paper says access to quality healthcare is scarce for transgenders in India and Pakistan. Photo: Getty Images

Accessing healthcare still an ordeal for LGBTQ in India

3 min read . 16 Jul 2018

Land documents with joint titles in the Sanakusupadu hamlet in Odisha’s Rayagada district. Photos: Arabinda Mahapatra

Odisha is breaking the patriarchy, one deed at a time

7 min read . 23 Jun 2018

Growing at 9% in 2016, India leads emerging markets as the fastest growing country for fashion, according to The State of Fashion report by McKinsey. File photo: HT

Fashion industry with no working rules

5 min read . 06 Jun 2018