It happens every month

It’s high time we stopped treating the topic of menstruation as a taboo in front of men, and stopped keeping napkins under wraps I was nervous, but still proceeded towards the medicine shop. It was full of men — not a single woman was present. I left behind all my hesitations and finally asked for […]

Killing it in a man’s world

To celebrate international Women’s Day, this entire edition is devoted to the women who are breaking new ground, refusing to be confined to the stereotypical roles Playing with fire SHUBHAM BHATIA When Taniya Sanyal from Kolkata was doing her Master’s in botany, she had no idea that one day she would become the first woman […]

Period: Start of a journey

After the documentary Period: End of Sentence won an Oscar, Patriot visits Kathikeda village to find a lot has changed for its women About 100 km from the city of Delhi, in a small district called Hapur in Uttar Pradesh, there’s a small village called Kathikheda. Over the past few days, visitors have been pouring […]

Single, not alone!

Many women want to charter their own life without the support of men. It’s not limiting but liberating Single in the city, more than 50 years of age — some may be tempted to think she’s in a deplorable condition. That’s not true for so many women. Byron Katie, an American writer who teaches a […]

Sexism still rages

The powerful women in politics are not immune to sexism — Priyanka Gandhi and Smriti Irani seem to be the pet targets There are glaring contradictions in the narrative of those who claim to be torch-bearers of liberal ideas. One of the aspects of liberal discourse is to deal with issues without getting personal about […]

Two steps forward

Are elected women leaders just proxies for the men in their families, or do they have real control? In search of answers, Patriot went to Meerut district to meet two women leaders — a village Pradhan and a Nagar Panchayat Chairperson Bharoli village in Mawana tehsil is criss-crossed with little lanes that lead into homes […]

Orthodox mindset prevails

In college, I used to hang out with two of my classmates, both boys. But the fact that I was spending a lot of time with them was not taken in a good way by my other classmates. I heard people saying (behind my back) that ‘She’s double dating.’ There was much more to this. […]

Meeting of minds

Women who have fought their battles and arrived in life, refrain from judging and excluding people, come together to celebrate life The biggest personal battle we fight is to acknowledge ourselves as we are, and not pretend to be who we aren’t for social consumption. Coming out may therefore be traumatic as well as an […]