Sreemoyee Piu Kundu

Is marriage, as BJP MLA Vikram Saini implies, a political tool? One that could now be used by non-Kashmiri men wanting to marry 'fair-skinned Kashmiri girls'?

Crimes against women in India are spiking. Yet, instead of controlling men, society casts a severe eye on what the woman was wearing and who she was with. It's time we stopped listening.

Shahid Kapoor-starrer 'Kabir Singh' highlights toxic masculinity. It is a big hit. It was liked not just by men, but by women too, many of whom are comfortable with the Kabir Singhs in real life.

Why do advertisers assume that only men can enjoy sports and that women abhor the idea of their partners prioritizing the World Cup over them?

The state of Bengal is on edge with different political factions violently targeting each other and civilians becoming cannon fodder. Even Imran Khan's Tagore gaffe didn't make Bengalis laugh.

The CM is acting as the political, moral and cultural ambassador of a ghost community that has been forced out of its crumbling state long ago. The Bengalis who are everywhere but in Bengal.

Marriage may seem outdated but is the idea of love and romance too?

Why I am filled with dread in Bengal today. By a broken statue. A riot in the street. Packs of local criminals turned netajis. Will my freedom as a woman in West Bengal soon die?

Open relationships are quite in vogue, I am told these days. And, yet something snaps in me when the word ‘nice’ is used to describe the woman he is ‘cheating on!’

Is the real problem over letting women into barred holy places actually allowing the sexes to mingle? And perhaps to forget the purpose of visiting a holy place? What is that purpose anyway?

Let’s get real. Family values are a joke. Wives in India are treated as slaves. For sex and more.

Whether it's female film stars or a celeb neta like Priyanka Gandhi, we are scared of strong women who challenge stereotypes. Isn't that why we force female netas into only 'decent Indian clothing'?

In India, out of 1000 marriages, only 13 result in divorce. But given the abysmal state of the lying-cheating-beating Indian shaadi, this is simply sad news.

This model of class-impaired, so called 'feminist' rhetoric either divides women on socio-economic parameters or homogenises them into a universal, faceless, 'sex ki bhuki' matrix. Either is deeply insulting and totally false.

Can Apsara Reddy be a champion of mainstreaming the marginalised and changing the gender game, for both Rahul Gandhi and the Congress?

My heart was broken for doing what I always have. Loving too hard. And searching for such love.

While the feminist-activist may think she is insulting Rahul Gandhi with her taunt-tweet on sex, she may just be winning him more brownie points.

Is Professor Kanak Sarkar a symptom of a rampant desi mard chauvinism that wants a virgin to wed, and other women to molest outside the homestead?

Instead of talking about how they overcame PCOS, depression or domestic violence, the latest social media trend is making women look back at their old hairstyles or lip colour. That is only one reason why I am staying out of the #tenyearchallenge.

The book explores the artistic and ideological journey of a Marathi thespian, and the price he had to pay.

Since when did the City of Joy become the City of Bhoi (fear) for lovers?

‘My husband was impotent, he sexually abused me. Then, my in-laws took me to a guruji...’

[Book extract] If sex is available easily, there’s nothing wrong in a woman lusting after it, not waiting for emotional connect.

When will we begin asking serious questions about a case full of loopholes?

Why do we, women, not articulate our likes and dislikes when it comes to sex? Why are we always the provider?

The visual orgy begins with the overpowering voice of a man spelling out BDSM for beginners.

Be it on a crowded street corner or a deserted highway. Or in the darkness of our own bedrooms.

Spare us the look of pity or the compelling need to find us a partner.

The beauty and fashion industry is made to balance itself on the idea of being thin.

Sex remains largely hush-hush and filth mostly in our minds.