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Writing that takes feminism beyond its Western origins — tracing solidarity, resistance, and the specificity of struggle across the Global South.

Decolonial & Global Feminisms

Natasha Ramarathnam
September 26, 2026

Dolly Parton, 1946- 2026, Singer-songwriter and actressGloria Steinem, 1934- 2026, Journalist and social activistThe world lost......

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Aditi Dasgupta
August 27, 2026

I picked Vir Das’s The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits carrying two very different preoccupations: I......

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Aditi Dasgupta
August 26, 2026

Mirza’s Sea, Salt & Spice: A History of Mumbai Through Food is a necessary compilation of......

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Maitreyee B Chowdhury
August 26, 2026

A long cantilever bridge, steel frames and a bewildered city. In the waters, are three boats,......

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Maitreyee B Chowdhury
August 26, 2026

From a two-hundred-year-old Shiva temple, turn left. The market road in Gokarna has two castes, the......

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Rebecca Mathai
August 26, 2026

The boys were not the only ones keeping an eye out on her. Their school was......

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Yvonne Aore
August 26, 2026

Sade rolled her eyes.“Yes, Mum,” she said into the speakerphone, absently fiddling with the plaque on......

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Manya Suri
August 26, 2026

The ash falls like dirty snow over the Ward of Shards, coating the corrugated tin roofs......

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Glory
August 26, 2026

I. The Fourth Time I woke at eight in the morning and reached for my phone.......

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Natasha Ramarathnam
August 26, 2026

We call her Mother Nature. And then we treat her exactly as we would our mother.......

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Usawa Editorial Team
July 29, 2026

unseen whistleof a pressure cooker lifts shrieking parrotsoff the neighbouringmango tree. summer airscattering green....

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Usawa Editorial Team
July 29, 2026

distanttrees. loud that far call –not birdbut squirrel. that—the late-risingkoel in the greencrownof twin bungalows....

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Amita Arya
July 29, 2026

It was past 11 pm at the airport. I had 5-year-old Kabir with me — tired,......

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Bilal Moin
July 28, 2026

A Translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Intesaab (Dedication) Agha Shahid Ali, in his introduction to The......

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Arpita Das
July 25, 2026

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out......

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Eleen Raja
July 25, 2026

Summer dust had the habit of getting everywhere.  It gathered in the cracked wood of our......

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