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For Indiaâs nomadic tribes, heat isnât just uncomfortable. Itâs the difference between water and none, food or sickness, shade or harassment. Caste shapes how heat affects people and yet they are missing from our HAPs. Priyanka Tupe reports behanbox.com/2025/05/23/marâŠ

In Solapur, Nomadic Dombari families are barred from using village wells. They must cycle 5â6 km daily to fetchTjust 8 pots of water. Extra water comes in lieu of unpaid labour. Heat is political but absent from policy reports Priyanka Tupe behanbox.com/2025/05/23/marâŠ

âWe sleep on the road because itâs too hot inside. But when weâre harassed, the police askââwhy are you outside?ââ For NT-DNT women, even basic survival is punished. Priyanka Tupe reports on the invisible links between caste, climate and policy behanbox.com/2025/05/23/marâŠ


What do women's reading, production and consumption cultures post 1950 say about them as readers, artists and writers? âReading for pleasure interrupts phallogocentric egocentric time,â, says scholar Aakriti Mandhwani in an interview w/ Saumya Kalia behanbox.com/2025/05/26/reaâŠ

Beyond Delhi, reading clubs have extended to tier 2 & 3 cities, with initiatives like âAlwar Readsâ. This insta reel to reel-to-real life conversation is perhaps a radically generative thing, Aakriti Mandhwani tells Saumya Kalia in 'Behanbox Talkies' behanbox.com/2025/05/26/reaâŠ

What was it like working in the archives for her book âEveryday readingâ on womenâs reading in middle classes in North India? Much benevolent paternalism and the idea that it wasnât 'political' and not harmful, scholar Aakriti Mandhwani tell us. behanbox.com/2025/05/26/reaâŠ

It started as a project trying to decode the history of pulp, but revealed something remarkable: women as more confident and assertive readers that she had imagined. Aakriti Mandhwani unfolds delightful insights on women's reading cultures post 1950s . behanbox.com/2025/05/26/reaâŠ

Women were not just passively reading but engaging actively with middlebrow magazines like Sarita through exchanges with editors, pointing out discrepancies, airing opinions. Aakriti Mandhwani tells us nuggets on women and reading cultures post 1950s behanbox.com/2025/05/26/reaâŠ



The Indo-Pak armed conflict saw a volley of uncontrollable half-truths and misinformation. Why did Indiaâs law and regulatory bodies fail to stem this? Where does the accountability lie? Saumya Kalia pieces the puzzle. behanbox.com/2025/05/29/whyâŠ

While half truths and propaganda are a âstapleâ of any crisis, the recent Indo-Pak armed conflict saw information warfare at a massive scale, by mainstream media orgs under the watchful gaze of the government. Saumya Kalia analyses. behanbox.com/2025/05/29/whyâŠ

