Intimate City
In this one-of-a-kind book, Manjima Bhattacharjya examines how globalization and technology have changed where and how sexual commerce is transacted.


In this one-of-a-kind book, Manjima Bhattacharjya examines how globalization and technology have changed where and how sexual commerce is transacted.



In 2017 an all-male nine-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court delivered the landmark Justice K.S. Puttaswamy & Ors v.



The concept of programme evaluation, now more than half a century old, refers to the practice of professional assessment of a programme that is informed by evidence and guided by evaluative thinking to arrive at a judgement about value, merit, worth, significance and utility.



In 2013 Madhumita Dutta, a doctoral student, went to do research in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu.



In Homeward, Soibam Haripriya brings together writers, artists, poets and photographers to question presumptions of home, the idea of a homeland and, by extension, the nation.



Kastura, ‘the Songbird’, has disappeared.



More than just an autobiography or memoir, this is a powerful and passionate account of one woman’s battle to claim her identity and place in society.



Swimming In Our Oceans traverses the uncertainties and contradictions that shape who we are.



In 2005, after considerable campaigning by women’s groups, the Indian government brought in an important new law, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA).



Tamil Literature in English Translation Series



An old Mizo proverb holds that a woman’s wisdom takes her only as far as the village stream.



Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa is a translation of select verses from the Assamese Saptakāṇḍa Rāmāyaṇa of Mādhava Kandalī, Śaṅkaradeva and Madhavdeva, written between the 14th-15th centuries CE.



मिलिए दो बहनों अंजलि और पूजा से। इनके शरीर में शुरू होने वाले परिवर्तनों को लेकर इनके पास बहुत सारे सवाल हैं। इन्होंने जवाबों की खोज में अपने दोस्तों, माओं, और उनके मिथकों को दूर करने वाली अपनी दीदी (जो डॉक्टर हैं!) को शामिल कर लिया है। यह जानने के लिए की इन्होंने क्या सीखा, इनके रोचक कारनामों से जुड़े। आपको इस पुस्तक में और भी बहुत कुछ मिलेगा:.



In the early 1980s, members of Stree Shakti Sanghatana, a Hyderabad women’s collective, set out to talk to women who had been part of the legendary Telangana People’s Struggle (1946-51), a rebellion which began in the erstwhile Hyderabad state and was put down by the newly inaugurated republic.



The COVID-19 epidemic threw the entire world into crisis. Social life came to a standstill, inequalities deepened, and educational systems faltered.



Sumitra Mehrol was a mere child when she was struck with polio.



A long-forgotten figure from the history of women’s activism in early twentieth-century Malayali society, Kochattil Kalyanikkutty Amma suddenly pushed herself out of obscurity in 1993, when her autobiography, Pathikayum Vazhiyorathe Manideepangalum, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi’s prestigious prize for the best autobiography in Malayalam.



This book is a feminist endeavour that seeks to retrieve what was meant to be a damning accusation—that feminists are responsible for the dissolution of the family or kutumbam kalakkal—into a source of illuminating critique.



In 1947, and then in 1971, in the South Asian subcontinent, entire communities of people crossed newly-created borders to find new homes as partitions divided and reshaped countries.



The recent global pandemic highlighted the crucial role played by (mostly female) care workers in providing health services across the world.
