As the country celebrates the centenary of the historic encounter of Mahatma Gandhi with Sree Narayana Guru, we are reminded ...

Women have won many victories in their fight for equality. But the biggest battle is yet to be fought—making men understand ...

Sucheta Kripalani, born on June 25, 1908, in Ambala, Punjab (now Haryana), pioneered Indian politics. She was the first woman ...

International Women's Day was celebrated the world over on March 8, but have women really been liberated? I belong to ...

Most pained by the north-south divide were those who fell in love outside their language of heritage and were ostracised ...

These women taught me that the sharp divide between the public and domestic sphere is unnecessary, that there is no shame in ...

If Elizabeth's dynastic 1921 marriage to James Blaine Walker -- grandnephew of her father's secretary of state and onetime Republican presidential nominee James G. Blaine -- was conventional, much of ...

We will explore such themes as the status of women and the role of gender in religious narratives, social customs and practices including marriage ... Buddha to Gandhi: A History of Indian Nonviolence ...

This is the month of fasting, especially for the Christians and Muslims all over the world. Fasting has existed in history ...

March of 1925, two occurrences shaped Gandhi’s evolution — the Hindu-Muslim rift in Kohat and the grotesque manifestation of ...