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“You can’t just sit down and write off a whole novel unless you strategize, improvise, do your research, and sit down every day with discipline and enough time to write it.” -Alpa Arora (Author, Floating Worlds)
Alpa Arora is a former journalist/content writer who has been writing articles, poetry... -
Reading Like a Writer: Learning Craft from South Asian Masters
A Live Online Workshop with Namrata Saturday, March 14 Time: 11 AM IST...
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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
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Kaarvan Trained Artisans Highlight Women Empowerment Through Craft
An exhibition, Uraan Chapter 12, displaying exquisite handicrafts by Pakistani female artisans was...
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Port Sudan – As Sudan’s humanitarian crisis deepens with escalating famine and conflict, women and girls are bearing the brunt. A new report, Gender Snapshot: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk... -
August 2025 Stepping into this new editorial role at Ananke during a month that carries so much historical and emotional weight across South Asia is not lost on me.... -
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2025 | Global — Ananke, the global new media and development platform dedicated to inclusive digital storytelling, proudly announces the appointment of Namrata as its... -
Cooperation for change, this is essentially what multilateralism is all about. Countries with common goals, working together. While what this suggests is working together for positive change, the global... -
What is your go to poison? Choose… wisely!! Wisely? A pill… bitter to swallow? Death It is easy Coy even Playing hide and seek Or so it seems Playing... -
Namrata reviews Nocturne Pondicherry (Hachette India, 2024) originally written in French and translated into English by Roopam Singh calling it a masterclass in atmosphere, character, and quiet rebellion. In... -
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... -
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...