Category: Gender and Society

By — Manushree Mahat Abstract The article aims to contextualize how experiences of Dalit women vary significantly in the digital sphere, where both empowerment and harassment are ever-present. While some online spaces become spheres of activism, others become means through which hatred and bigotry is actively spread.  The article will examine how being a woman and…

By — Siddarth Poola Abstract Indian queer spaces like to describe themselves as “casteless,” which is roughly as believable as a landlord describing himself as anti-property. This essay is a slightly irritated, completely sincere analysis of how caste survives inside queer community by rebranding itself as desire. Dalit and Bahujan queer people are not usually…

By – Jyotsna Panicker Abstract India’s legal system has tried to protect the rights of women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, but it is a very hollow framework without any implementation or change in Indian society. This article examines how the intersectionality of gender and caste makes Dalit and Adivasi women…

By – Kadambari Chand Abstract The intersection of caste and gender has always been a subject of great interest for various feminist and caste scholars like Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, Uma Chakarvarti, Nivedita Menon. This article argues that everyday violence faced by women cannot be studied separately from the caste aspect of it in India.  Drawing from…

By – Sritha M Abstract This article aims to discuss how the mass hysterectomies of Dalit and Adivasi women working in Maharashtra’s sugarcane fields are not merely isolated events, but are parts of a much bigger system built on caste-gendered structural violence. In it, the state’s lack of labour protections, the profit motives of private…

By – Trisha Bhatnagar  Abstract The article aims to highlight distressing lived experiences of Dalit women, particularly in higher education institutions. It will highlight how their violence-backed struggles are more often than not rendered structurally invisible. My article analyses how Institutional Redundancy interacts with the Dalit female student experience. Crises of Dalit women in this…

By – Anisha Jyotirmayee Abstract Domestic work is considered one of the most vital yet under-recognised labor. With the help of domestic workers, houses stay clean, childcare and eldercare are fulfilled. Despite this, these workers still lack legal and social recognition in the labor industry. Workers are paid less, abused and treated differently. This article…

By — Kadambari Chand Abstract: Emotional and carework have historically been associated with femininity and maternal instincts, therefore, it has always been expected and seen as natural for women to do such work. This article explores how women are socialised into performing this care work in both the household and  professional spaces. Although this labour plays…

By — Anisha Jyotirmayee Abstract: This article reconsiders the issue of time poverty as the problem associated with the lack of discretionary time from the perspective of structural constraints, caused by the unequal distribution of labor. This article considers the issue of the unequal share of housework performed by females as one of the reasons…

Abstract Women bear the responsibility of caring for the elderly in-laws in many South Asian households, like those in India and Nepal. Caregiving and of itself is incredibly gendered – the very notion that married daughters-in-law are expected to live with the aged in-laws, while the sons don’t bear the responsibility of living in their…

By — Siddarth Poola Abstract Modern economies are frequently described in terms of what they produce, but a more accurate description might be what they have decided not to count. This article examines two overlapping phenomena: the structural tendency of economic systems to profit from the very inefficiencies and dependencies they generate, and the systematic…