Mamata Banerjee: More than India’s only woman chief minister
By Shikha Mukerjee For the BJP in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is unidimensional—a failure as a woman chief minister. But evaluating a woman’s performance solely on the basis of her gender is discriminatory and disingenuous. The deliberate reduction of Mamata Banerjee...
Being a journalist in Karbi Anglong
By Helvellyn Timungpi At the NWMI meeting in Mumbai, February 2024. Photo courtesy: Supriya Unni Nair Helvellyn Timungpi from Diphu, recipient of the Sixth NWMI Fellowship for Women Journalists shares highlights of her journey over the past year. Karbi Anglong is an...
The Madonna/Whore Complex in Indian Politics
The Madonna/Whore complex is a Freudian concept which describes the way many men tend to see women: as either saintly mother figures or immoral and debased women. Female politicians in India are often subjected to this binary perception.
