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Behanbox is an independent media platform for gender journalism at the intersection of politics, policy, law and data.

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Women like Nalini have been doing the labour of love and resilience in conserving the mangroves in the disaster-prone coastal Odisha - fragile ecosystems that are critical in reducing the impact of natural disasters caused by cyclones and floods. However, they have no land or

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For India’s nomadic tribes, heat isn’t just uncomfortable. It’s 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/mar


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In Solapur, Nomadic Dombari families are barred from using village wells. They must cycle 5–6 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/mar


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“We sleep on the road because it’s too hot inside. But when we’re harassed, the police ask—‘why are you outside?’” 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/mar


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Priyanka Tupe reports how the nomadic and denotified tribes continue to remain outside the scope of most climate and welfare policies. How heat intersects with caste, water, shelter and invisibility. This is a #mustread from BehanBox

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


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Beyond Delhi, reading clubs have extended to tier 2 & 3 cities, with initiatives like ‘Alwar Reads’. 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/rea


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What was it like working in the archives for her book ‘Everyday reading’ on women’s reading in middle classes in North India? Much benevolent paternalism and the idea that it wasn’t 'political' and not harmful, scholar Aakriti Mandhwani tell us. behanbox.com/2025/05/26/rea


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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/rea


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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/rea


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Sharing a recent story of resilience, care, and the quiet power of women who are nurturing the mangroves that protect their villages. For BehanBox Womanity Link to the story: behanbox.com/2025/04/24/wom


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Mark your calendars and listen to people who have been following the #ASHA workers protests in Kerala and understand the larger struggles of our healthcare workers and feminisation of care work with Polis Project and @Behanbox.

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


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While half truths and propaganda are a ‘staple’ 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/why


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What led to the media and information credibility crisis during the recent Indo-Pak armed conflict? Why did the regulatory bodies and laws like Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995 fail to rein them in? We piece this explainer for you. behanbox.com/2025/05/29/why


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For last 3 years, Kerala’s Kudumbashree has conducted a unique local panchayat level 'gender crime mapping survey'. It map GBV at locally and despite methodological issues, exposes what the scale of abuse, types of perpetrators and how women respond. behanbox.com/2025/06/03/les