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Bois Locker Room and the bullying of LGBTQ+ youth

The locker room culture is an outcome of toxic patriarchy that harbours a deep disdain for difference and diversity

4 min read12 May 2020
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Patan’s girls got talent

Girls from a school in northern Gujarat’s Sampra village are leading a football revolutionCalled the ‘Patan Girls’, the footballers’ success has brought an entire community closer

7 min read13 Sep 2019
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Smooth as a champagne cocktail

Elizabeth Gilbert’s new novel ‘City Of Girls’ takes the reader on a delightful romp through 1940s New YorkSet in the world of theatre, the plot sizzles with fashion, glamour, intrigue and sexual frisson

3 min read12 Jul 2019
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Books for girls who are limitless

After ‘Rebel Girls’ books, anthologies featuring female role models have become a global publishing phenomenonThe indication was clear that a new generation of girls needed stories that would tell them they were limitless

7 min read8 Mar 2019
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Lounge Original: Paradise Tomorrow by Manjula Padmanabhan

Menem had only managed two successful couplings in four years of constant travelling. He wished it wasn't so fiendishly complicated. He just wanted to get away. At the same time, he was curious about her technique. If it was reasonably effective, he could overpower her, take it away and use it on others.

10 min read4 Jan 2019
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The Guerrilla Girls and other aliens land in Kochi

The American feminist collective and other artists on the fringe shine at Anita Dube's radical edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale this year

5 min read15 Dec 2018
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Why don’t these girls work?

In the recent batch of Bollywood films set in bright, 'mithai'-loving small towns, the heroines are assertive and sexually confident but rarely have careers or career aspirations.

10 min read11 Dec 2018
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Fashion, animated

The Cartoon Network Enterprises X Nandita Mahtani collection features iconic characters from the 1990s

1 min read7 Dec 2018
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The footballing girls of Alakhpura

In this Haryana village, girls in almost every household play football. The sport is helping them break societal taboos and gain financial freedom

11 min read1 Dec 2018
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Indian girls’ aspirations brush up against reality

Most teenage girls want to study further and work, but their dreams are likely to collide with an economy that's unable to give them salaried jobs they desire.

3 min read13 Nov 2018
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