August is celebrated as Women in Translation month, an annual reminder that more needs to be done to champion women writing in languages other than English. Writers like Ismat Chughtai, Qurratulain Hyder, Krishna Sobti, Mahasweta Devi, Elena Ferrante, Ernaux would have been lost to those who do not know Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian or French if they had not been …
In a first, the BJP made history by announcing Draupadi Murmu, a tribal woman, as the Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance. By announcing Murmu, the Bharatiya Janata Party has played a masterstroke in terms of wooing the women electorate — the segment currently on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus — and the tribal population. The party’s senior leaders …
