The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and tortuous interrelationship between gender, national and other multiple identities are explored....

The Seventh National Conference of the Women’s Movements in India was unique in several ways. For one, women’s groups worked relentlessly over the last eight years to make this conference happen. Since the last conference at Ranchi in 1998, most people believed that the series of...

In a context where despite high levels of literacy and economic independence, women in Kerala are still expected to conform to conservative standards of docility, obedience and family-oriented (at the cost of their own happiness), the author surveys the impact of prime time television's impact...

The swine flu has come to India also. What measures have been taken by the government to fight against the pandemic?