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Structure

Where we look at the interconnected structures of power such as law, state, religion, caste and class, language, marriage and family, through a feminist lens.

platform workers

New Digital Terrains, New Struggles: Women Platform Workers’ Creative Collectivising

August 21, 2026

Platform work started becoming popular in India around 2010, but it took more than a decade for a single state to pass an act providing legal protection to platform workers. When these platform workers also happen to be women, the threats to safety intensify and the burden of unpaid labour piles up. How then do they manage to collectivise, let alone bargain with an algorithm?

The Intractable Courtship Between AI Language Models and Writers

August 21, 2026

The much-discussed arrival of AI-generated text into the literary realm has cast us into a new era of authorship: nothing you publish online is free from its radar, ever. In this excerpt from her investigative book Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age (HarperCollins, 2025), Vauhini Vara writes about how the accessibility of these tools, trained on huge data sets but constantly trawling the internet for more, brought an avalanche of ‘polished’, writing.

A History Of The Internet, Told Through Human Emotion

August 18, 2026

Vauhini Vara’s book is a personal history refracted through the history of technological capitalism. She shows us how generative technology, a mere imitation of human articulation, reaches a dead end when it comes to communication. She traces the then and now of digital innovation, and what is being mediated for us emotionally through the companies that design our personal chatbots.

censorship

Remember VHS? Remember How It Slipped Past Censorship?

March 16, 2026

If you have lived through or ever wondered about the era of rented cassette tapes and video parlours, this essay is for you. At the heart of this piece is a feminist curiosity around what women were doing, gazing at and blushing about during the heyday of video films.

urbanism

Without the dark, where do the lovers go?

January 6, 2026

Darkness has been the grist to many poets’ mills, the emptiness that allows stars to shine and often the site of cinematic horror films. But what does the dark reveal about how we live?

A Day at a One Stop Centre in Delhi

May 16, 2025

The wave of the massive Nirbhaya protests prompted the government to set up 36 One Stop Centres (OSCs), one for every state and UT, on a pilot basis in 2015. Today, there are 819 operational OSCs across the country. A One Stop Centre is meant to integrate victim-survivor’s access to different mechanisms of justice such as police, hospitals and courts, while also providing emergency shelter and psycho-social counselling.

Mental health and prisons

The Thin Blue Line between Care and Ethics of Care in an Indian Prison

February 4, 2025

Through her recent work on a public interest litigation, Maitreyi’s understanding of mental health in prisons saw a shift. What happens when care turns paternalistic? Can the promise of freedom be used as a tool to negotiate/manipulate? Are our imagined alternatives to this system any better? This interview is an attempt to make sense of some of these questions.

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Law and (Brahmanical) Order

January 17, 2025

Imagine you were out for wedding shopping and three days later, you die in police custody because they thought you were a thief. Or that you were arrested on suspicion of murder, simply because you were within a 5 KM radius from the crime scene.