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  • AnankeWLF To Highlight Pandering to Western Readership With Neo-Colonialist, Exoticized View of South Asia

    AnankeWLF To Highlight Pandering to Western Readership With Neo-Colonialist, Exoticized View of South Asia

    Arranged marriages, hyper-conservative in-laws, violent husbands, mangoes, and of course the monsoon season are some of the numerous stereotypes, many may have an aversion to reading in a work of fiction or even non-fiction. That said, typecasting continues to plague writers from within the South Asian region as well...
  • Ananke Women In Literature Festival Announces More Speakers

    Ananke Women In Literature Festival Announces More Speakers

    Eminent names from across South Asia, MENA and beyond will be gracing the third edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival 2023 on April 11th and 12th. Independent publishers, authors, filmmakers, artists, writers and creatives will congregate remotely to engage in dialogue focusing on a wide ranging array of...
  • Distinguished speakers to talk about the loss of linguistic repression due to hyper-nationalist fascism and spatial dislocation of form and language.

    AnankeWLF Unwraps the Migratory Experience of Language

    Joao Guimarães Rosa says so beautifully that ‘every word has its shadow’. Taking cue from the Brazilian novelist’s exposition, Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival unveils a fascinating conversation that will delve into the migratory experience of language through translation and interpretation. Eminent names from across South Asia, MENA and beyond will...
  • AnankeWLF unveils Illustrated Resistance

    AnankeWLF unveils Illustrated Resistance

    Art and the visual has played a pivotal role in the socio-political history of humanity. Existing since the time when mankind had limited modes of communication as well as vocabulary, it is an organic canvas representing ideas – shared and otherwise – riveting emotions and angst. Keeping in mind...
  • Ananke Women in Literature Unveils Session on Arab Women in Literature vis-vis War, Resilience, Exile & Identity

    Ananke Women in Literature Unveils Session on Arab Women in Literature vis-a-vis War, Resilience, Exile & Identity

    The third edition of Ananke’s one of a kind flagship event, Women in Literature Festival 2023 unveils a fascinating panel discussion featuring distinguished names from the Arab diaspora, Huda Fakhreddinne, Jehan Bseiso and Lela Aboulela. The event will be live-streamed on Ananke’s Facebook page – @anankemag with the option...
  • International Women’s Day spotlights massive costs to GDP and innovation caused by the exclusion of women from the digital world

    Massive Costs Due to Women’s Under Representation in the Digital World

    March 8th, 2023 (United Nations, New York): Under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, UN Women, the United Nations, and its partners and allies around the world celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8th, 2023, calling on governments, activists and the private sector to “power...
  • Lack of women in the nuclear sector puts net zero goals in danger

    Lack of women in the nuclear sector puts net zero goals in danger  

    March 8th, 2023: NEA analyses highlight that total nuclear energy production needs to triple by 2050 for governments around the world to achieve net zero emissions. The nuclear sector will need to grow and diversify its workforce as a result, but that will be difficult to achieve unless it attracts...
  • Ananke Women In Literature Festival Announces Initial Speakers

    Ananke Women In Literature Festival Announces Initial Speakers

    Eminent names from across South Asia, MENA and beyond will be gracing the third edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival 2023 (AnankeWLF. Planned to be held on April 11th and 12th, independent publishers, authors, filmmakers, artists, writers and journalists will congregate remotely to engage in dialogue focusing on...
  • Pace of Reform Toward Equal Rights for Women Falls to 20-Year Low

    March 3rd, 2023, (Washington, USA): The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global...
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