Tandava trance: The resurgence of natya rajas
Choodare’ is a Kshetreya padam (composition) that speaks about the emotional upsurges of a woman who is insecure about another woman in a relationship with Kri ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
The artist giving centuries-old scroll painting a feminist twist
Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on traditional ...
100 Indian short stories, Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist, Srikar Raghavan’s Karnataka and more
In reviews we read Srikar Raghavan’s book on the making of modern Karnataka, 100 Indian stories, edited by A.J. Thomas, and ...
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Women and Egypt’s tombs of Amun
Nearly 2,700 years ago, Egypt was conquered by kings from neighboring Nubia. Archaeologists are looking into this moment in history. One recent discovery tells us that the status of Egyptian women was ...