Latest Feminism News & Updates

Mumbai, May 22 (IANS) Actress Ridhi Dogra shared a note on modern relationships, marriage, and feminism amid the Twisha Sharma and Deepika Nagar case discussion. She asked young men and women to stop “romanticising marriage” and “expecting fairytales”. Ridhi shared long note with the caption: “It’s a changing world. Over the past few years a lot of heart wrenching incidents have happened to boys and girls after marriage.. And no one is guiding us to understand the change in social and ps…

Chennai, May 16 (IANS) Singer Keneeshaa Francis has now penned an emotional post that suggests that she has parted ways with well-known Tamil actor and producer Ravi Mohan. Taking to her Instagram page, Keneeshaa Francis wrote, “Dear all, I have said more than I should and could and most of it was unnecessary as well. I walked into this story with love. I walk out of it with silence. Some places become so consumed by noise, ego, judgment and manufactured narratives that goodness no longer has ro…

Mumbai, May 11 (IANS) Television superstar Rubina Dilaik shared her thoughts on feminism and the balance between masculine and feminine energies. The actress highlighted how true feminism can only exist when a man gives a woman the space to discover and build her own identity.In an exclusive interview with IANS, Rubina said, “Unless a man gives his woman’s identity a chance to bloom, no matter how loudly we scream feminism, it’s not possible.Drawing a spiritual parallel, and how the energi…

Dhaka, Feb 2 (IANS) Bangladesh is witnessing a striking paradox as the right-wing radical groups in the country depict feminism as a “Western agenda”. At its core, women’s rights activism in non-Western regions cannot be dismissed as an imported Western idea, especially when Western societies have themselves subjected women to persistent discrimination and oppression, a report said on Monday. “Feminist politics in Bangladesh emerged from women’s issues within local contexts, embedded i…

New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Bangladesh’s exiled author Taslima Nasreen finds the current situation in her country of birth worsening through time, even compared to the day she was forced to leave over three decades ago. “I’d say that was the time of the beginning of the growth of religious fundamentalism in the country; now, Bangladesh is full of such elements,” said Taslima in an exclusive interview with IANS. “The then administration played into the hands of fundamentalists, and I was pe…