For many years, through many heartbreaks, the Twentieth Love Poem saw me through. The book was there on the bedside table. That was its designated place.

Do you still read Neruda in 2021? How?

Can you separate the art from the artist when the artist happens to have raped someone? Reading Pablo Neruda in 2021 feels like cheating. A betrayal.

The government is imposing Section 144 every where it catches a whiff of a protest.

DailyOh! Who is left in Hathras now that no one is allowed to visit, to the protests in Delhi

The government is imposing Section 144 everywhere it catches a whiff of a protest.

Public anger comes when details of what the rapists did to the body, apart from raping it, spill out.

From Hathras to Balrampur: Why rape and death are fine but injury details aren’t

Make no mistake, I agree, Not All Men.

Bois Locker Room: The boy who passed, the feminism that failed

Language is invisible, but the performance of language is hard to miss.

Why language used in locker room chats sounds so familiar

The unrestrained wrong impressions perpetrated by the media, political commentators and academia are making mountains of mole-sized problems in India.

We cannot foster false narratives that degrade India's image

We are the moral police teaching women why and how they should avoid 'danger'.

We all stand accused in the Hyderabad rape-murder

A Delhi court put the onus of proof on the victim.

Delhi court asks victim to prove rape. And you wonder why encounters are hailed?

Let’s get real. Family values are a joke. Wives in India are treated as slaves. For sex and more.

Former CJI Dipak Misra says marital rape should not be an offence. Here’s what Mishraji doesn’t know about this crime

It is bewildering the BJP has not sought an explanation from the minister in question, not even promised an inquiry. The party blames the Left Front instead.

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