Robert Waterman McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. An author, activist and journalist, he is a co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organisation, and was one of the
When I was a child, my relationship with my mother was often strained. I was five when she signed me up for lessons at the Maharashtra Lawn Tennis Association. I was scared of my coach, who would often berate me
Appreciating feminism is not the same as respecting women. A crude analogy would be that appreciating feminism is like life itself. It requires labour, extensive study, learning to unmake whatever you have crammed till that point in your life. It
The feminist struggle in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, now known as the second wave of feminism, was marked by the beauty dilemma. Susan Brownmiller, a pioneering American feminist, expresses the debate succinctly in the following passage:
Baba Remedy made headlines this month with the launch of his Putrajeevak Beej, seeds that he claims can produce sons. There is a big demand for boys in India, and Baba Remedy has cannily tapped into this free market
Recently, I travelled on the Delhi Metro on two separate occasions, each time with a female friend. Both are self-proclaimed feminists. Both champion the cause of women emancipation. Both will retweet the statement, “If you are not a feminist, you
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There is no real recipe for success, no magic formula which will guarantee that a book will sell millions and millions of copies and turn its author into a household name. We’ve been told this countless times and yet, there
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It pains me to say this, but I’m going to begin this column by defending Shobhaa Dé. The uproar about her Marathi cinema tweets has largely died down—although she still may face legal action—such is the nature of the 24-hour