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Business News > Mint Authors > Swarna Rajagopalan

Swarna Rajagopalan

ARTICLES BY SWARNA RAJAGOPALAN

People at a protest march called by India’s leading wrestlers against sexual harassment in sports in 2023. (Getty Images)

The poetic injustice of Vairamuthu's Jnanpith Award

5 min read . 20 Mar 2026

Annie Besant was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress. (Getty Images)

Book Review: The woman who refused to be bullied by men

7 min read . 17 Jan 2026

Indira Gandhi in November 1976. (Getty Images)

A new book unpacks Indira Gandhi's controversial legacy during the Emergency

7 min read . 20 Jul 2025

Anger at the service of patriarchy is seen as good anger, like Draupadi’s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Let women reclaim the right to rage

6 min read . 21 Mar 2025

Some of the challenges in dealing with sexual harassment allegations are peculiar to the Indian arts

Where Kalakshetra fell out of step in dealing with sexual harassment allegations

6 min read . 31 Mar 2023

Agnipath could be a path to vexing social problems

4 min read . 19 Jun 2022

Will 2022 be the year we change our understanding of work?

5 min read . 29 Dec 2021

In 2007, India became the first country to deploy an all-women contingent to a UN peacekeeping mission. The Formed Police Unit in Liberia provided 24-hour guard duty and conducted night patrols in the capital Monrovia and helped to build the capacity of the Liberian police. (UN Photo/Christopher Herwig)

We need more women in conflict prevention and peace processes

6 min read . 28 Oct 2021

Mahatma Gandhi at age 70, flanked by his grand-niece Manu Gandhi (left) and Abhaben Gandhi, wife of his nephew Kanu, c. October 1939. (Alamy)

Revisiting Gandhi in 2021

8 min read . 02 Oct 2021

Harvey Weinstein during his rape trial in a New York court on 5 February.

Boss, here’s what the to-do list is missing

6 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Trapped at home

5 min read . 27 Aug 2021

Students in Bengaluru protesting against the rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor in Hyderabad, in 2019. (Getty Images)

A memo on the perfect victimhood

7 min read . 28 May 2021

89% working women felt covid19 pandemic has adversely impacted their professional lives. (iStock)

International Women's Day isn't a day for sales or roses

6 min read . 08 Mar 2021

Priya Ramani with her lawyer Rebecca John (in black blazer) on 17 February at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court after being acquitted in a defamation case filed by M.J. Akbar

After the landmark #MeToo case, will women finally speak up?

5 min read . 19 Feb 2021

Priya Ramani speaks to the media on a defamation case filed by former union minister MJ Akbar, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI)

Will this landmark defamation case empower MeToo survivors to speak out?

7 min read . 18 Feb 2021

Coronavirus may trap women in the ‘safe haven’ of the home

5 min read . 17 May 2020

Mahatma Gandhi. Photo: Getty Images

How the personal and political, the inner and outer journeys, are intertwined

4 min read . 02 Oct 2019

Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Opinion | The role of gender in reconstruction efforts

4 min read . 17 Sept 2018