The fact that a child is being trolled shows how deep the stigma around facial and body hair is, but some Indian women are embracing their fuzz. I write:

🚨BIG STORY🚨Swiggy has gamified health insurance for delivery workers, changing insurance tiers depending on a worker's weekly performance. Varsha Bansal breaks an important story for Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

On this month's gender page, a look at the pink tax, the joys of being alone and the fascinating life of mountaineer Deepali Sinha

Techno-optimism is failing in practice, Madhumita Murgia tells me in an interview about her wonderful new book 'Code Dependent'. We discussed how AI deepens inequalities, but also the ways in which people across the world are resisting Big Tech and oppressive AI systems…

#BREAKING : Thai parliament passes landmark Marriage Equality Bill, becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to give #LGBTQ couples the right to tie the knot. #สมรสเท่าเทียม

The blockbuster success of Manjummel Boys has put the spotlight on one thing: from multi-lingual setups to creating fictional languages from scratch, a bunch of film directors and web show creators are changing what 'pan-India' content truly means.

My story.

“Bengal Famine not a footnote, it was a catastrophe.” Thanks to Ketaki Desai and The Times Of India for featuring #ThreeMillion today.

RWAs are waging a war against Muslims—within societies, on WhatsApp groups

Shubhangi Misra reports

#ThePrintGroundReport

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Travelling to India can be a complicated experience for women from other countries. I learnt about the experience of two tourists when it comes to safety and sexual harassment in India

Interviewed Alice Evans about why Gen Z men tend to be more conservative, India's low female employment rates and more in Sunday's TOI
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For Women's Day, we did a special edition of our monthly gender roundup, with an essay on the day itself, a misogyny glossary and more

Antimicrobial resistance is rampant in India and is only getting worse. I spoke to some of the startups and scientists trying to fight it

I interviewed Anil Seth about the implications of Neuralink and other brain computer interfaces

Okay let’s get to the most controversial part of the #UttarakhandCivilCode . I reserved judgment until I had waded through the whole pdf.

Here’s what I noticed.

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I interviewed Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ about the larger problems behind India's student suicides, beyond just coaching centres, and what prevention could (and should) look like

Wrote about the self-taught content creators using their social media to teach others English

Cervical cancer, the life of India's first female neurosurgeon and more in this month's gender roundup

I spoke to Ketaki Desai of TOI on suicides in young people.
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everyone should read my talented friend and colleague Shruti Sonal's wonderful book of poetry!!!

In the 150th (!?!) Gender+ newsletter, we talk the reality of sexual assault in virtual worlds, the life of Kerala's 'samurai grandma' and a lot more: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/newslett…