In a time of fake news and deleting of targeted sections from school textbooks, Neha Kirpal curates a list of the latest children’s books about India’s past and present realities, its diversity, culture and societal challenges.
In the aftermath of the Astha Kunj rape case, Delhi college student Ishita Thakur asks why it is always girls who are forced to carry the burden of fear and have their rights denied, while perpetrators roam free.
In her new book that brings together gender, culture, religion and medicine, Dr Sameena Rahman places South Asian women’s experiences at the center of a conversation often constrained by silence, stigma and medical bias.
Shiwani Dhiman and her partner battled society to marry each other, challenging India’s rigid arranged-marriage norms. But the real test of their love began after moving abroad, when a new country’s challenges entered their marriage.
Sharmila Rathinam left a 25-year corporate career to lead a nonprofit that uses an app, volunteer drivers and AI-powered analytics to close the logistical gap between food waste and hunger across the Seattle region.
Freedom has domestic consequences, and domestic consequences often become political, writes college lecturer Anju Devadas, whose ‘scooty’ empowered her day-to-day life, and gave her agency in ways she never anticipated.
Women translators are finally claiming the visibility they deserve, as international awards, Indian publishing initiatives and growing recognition bring their vital work from the margins into the spotlight, writes Aekta Kapoor.
Antara Mukherjee’s new novel follows a young girl across India and Bangladesh as she discovers the meaning of home – a border-crossing story that will resonate with South Asian diasporas and readers shaped by migration, writes Julia Dutta.
Singapore-based author Sonia Bahl discusses her latest novel ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’, which examines how love, grief, privilege and ambition intertwine between global cities in a touching tale of human connection.
For the eShe panel at the Ananke LitFest 2026, US-based poets Kashiana Singh, Anita Nahal and Pramila Venkateswaran explored how displacement reshapes memory, language and the meaning of home.
India-based company secretary Dr Puja Shree Agarwal founded a food brand for her mother Uma to share her heritage recipes, and witnessed ripples of transformation within and outside the home.
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