May2025

  • UN Women estimates over 28,000 women and girls killed in Gaza since October 2023

    UN Women estimates over 28,000 women and girls killed in Gaza since October 2023

    UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October 2023 – that is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in attacks by Israeli forces. Among those killed, thousands were mothers, leaving...
  • Exploring Transcendence in Sinners

    Exploring Transcendence in Sinners

    Originally a European lore, myth and story, vampires have long held great fascination all around the world. While a huge number of literary and cinematic iterations vis-a-vis the blood sucking monster originating from Europe explored themes of love, obsession as well as the notions of East versus West, otherness...
  • Foreign Aid Cuts Pushing Women’s Orgs To Breaking Point

    Foreign Aid Cuts Pushing Women’s Orgs To Breaking Point

    Geneva: Globally, 308 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across 73 countries, a figure that continues to rise with escalating conflict, climate change, food insecurity, and disease outbreaks. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by crisis, suffering from preventable pregnancy-related deaths, malnutrition, and high rates of sexual violence....
  • Ed’s Note: On The Intoxication of Power

    Ed’s Note: On The Intoxication of Power

    The art of sowing seeds of division among people, nations, can best be learnt from the colonial-thinking, imperialist West. Be it the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Balfour Declaration, the San Remo Conference in 1920 or the South Asian ‘Independence’ in 1947; recent history is replete with examples how the Europeans (and...
  • Where Stone Whispers and Forests Speak: The Mythopoetic World of Dr. Kanika Gupta

    Where Stone Whispers and Forests Speak: The Mythopoetic World of Dr. Kanika Gupta

    In an age of distraction, where the present clutches tightly at our gaze, Dr. Kanika Gupta chooses to look back, deep into the crevices of time, where myths still flicker like oil lamps and forgotten hands etched divinity into stone. Art historian, dancer, filmmaker, and author, Gupta is a...
  • Let Peace Be a Form of Resistance…

    Let Peace Be a Form of Resistance…

    Seated in my chauffeur-driven car (disclaimer: as I am visually impaired and do not drive after daylight), I told my 17 and 15 year old children to refrain from discussing India and Pakistan. Living in a multi-cultural country from where we or rather I, have spoken about issues that...
  • Op-Ed: Can Gender And Development Address Tech Facilitated Violence Against Women in Pakistan?

    Op-Ed: Can Gender And Development Address Tech Facilitated Violence Against Women in Pakistan?

    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 women into the development process. By late 80’s, it was critiqued to cash in on women as appendage into existing...
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