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- + Zubaan Books Brings Three Panels to the Ananke LitFest 26, Marking Women in Translation Month
- + Embodied Histories: Women’s Bodies as Archives at Ananke Literature Festival 2026
- + Cinema, Memory And Truth: Annie Zaidi and Adil Yousaf at Ananke LitFest26
- + Dr. Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque to Deliver Keynote at Ananke Literature Festival 2026
- + Decolonizing Trauma: Giti Chandra on Whose Suffering the World Agrees to Remember
- + Readomania Partners with Ananke Literature Festival 2026: Three Panels, 12 Indian Authors
- + A Tilt in Time: Fatima Rizvi on Translating Qurratulain Hyder’s Partition Memoir
- + On the Agency and Subversion of Language, Translation and Narratives
- + Ananke LitFest 26: Bhakti Shringarpure & Anthony Alessandrini in Decolonization Fireside Chat
- + Usawa Literary Review Brings Listening When The Subaltern Speaks to the Ananke Literature Festival 2026
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Ananke Literature Festival 2026 Unveils Stellar Speaker Lineup for Fault Lines: An Unmasking
July 15, 2026Ananke, the Global South’s celebrated media and development platform, announced the speaker lineup... -
Eighteen Inches Apart by Sonia Bahl Talks About The Women Who Notice What the World Overlooks
June 29, 2026Contemporary fiction by women is frequently forced into false binaries. Books centred on...
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Pakistani novelist Faiqa Mansab has reached an exciting international milestone, with the Italian rights to her novel The Sufi Storyteller officially acquired by Newton Compton Editori, a prominent name...
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Geneva – Online violence against women human rights defenders, activists and journalists has reached a tipping point, often fueling offline attacks, according to a new report released today, produced by the European Commission and UN Women’s ACT...
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From Hashtags to Action: Why Pakistan Needs a Collective Blueprint for Women in Tech Every year on International Women’s Day, timelines flood with powerful stories, corporate campaigns, and hashtags...
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The private sector is indispensable for closing the gap, according to a new report from UN Women launched today New York – Gender equality remains the unfinished business of our...
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The United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985) originated the concept Women in Development (WID). Influenced by feminist discourse of early 70’s in the Global North, it aimed to integrate...
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Tell us about yourself, where you are from, and a bit about your childhood that led you to choose your career and educational path. I’m Fatima Alshamsi, an Emirati...
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Art imitates life. It not only mirrors society, but also supplies a mirror through which social norms, taboos, stereotypes and deeply entrenched belief systems can be discovered by a...
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November 25th, 2024, (New York/Vienna): On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, the report Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides by UN...
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in Pakistan’s Evolving Tech Sector
October 10, 2023While Pakistan is going through severe economic and political turmoil at the moment,... -
Kaarvan Trained Artisans Highlight Women Empowerment Through Craft
February 13, 2023An exhibition, Uraan Chapter 12, displaying exquisite handicrafts by Pakistani female artisans was...
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“There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjuring spirits from the past and...
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Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt...
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The car crash in a Paris tunnel. The fallout. The updates. I remember only Cartoon Network being unaffected. I sat in my pyjamas with a bowl of Shreddies and...
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There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but...
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My dear friends, We are okay, though we have become eyewitnesses to things surreal—not unreal. Safety is not the issue; it really never was. All the hullabaloo would suggest...
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All hell broke loose almost a fortnight ago—perhaps more; all seems hazy and one loses track of time. It happened right in our backyard. The sights and sounds were...
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Alpa Arora is a former journalist/content writer who has been writing articles, poetry and short stories for the last 25 years. Her work has been published in The Times...
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A Live Online Workshop with Namrata Saturday, March 14 Time: 11 AM IST Live Online on Zoom | 2 Hours There is a popular belief that writing has no...