Balan's resistance to the dictatorial standards laid down by the fashion police earned her the respect and admiration of millions of Indians.

The fundamental premise of a self-respect marriage asks: what if we could change the rules about who can comprise a family, and on what terms?

Intersectionality was a powerful concept to describe oppressive systems. Eventually, it became too encompassing to meaningfully critique anything.

Woe Is Me! is a series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

We asked readers to tell us the sex lessons they had to learn the hard way.

In light of the rising instances of intimate partner violence, what are the legal protections afforded to those in live-in relationships?

'The Romantics' presented a PR exercise neatly packaged as intellectual discourse, blurring the line between documentaries and PR.

The rise of conservatism among Indian-Americans in the West reflects voting patterns based on a parallel rise in Hindu nationalism.

Woe Is Me! is a series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

The Indian media’s focus on the "secrecy” around the gender of the baby misses the memo on how gender works

The devaluation of household labor means that domestic workers are often paid low wages, leaving them with no bargaining power, and thus, prone to forced labor.

Memes are how Gen Z makes sense of the world. It is politicians and corporations co-opting memes that devalues the gravitas of world events, and supplants the subversive potential of memes.

Kathleen's liminal status as neither "good" nor "bad" speaks to the post-pandemic reality of today: how ethical is it to survive at any cost?

The larger problem lies with our persistent reliance on formulaic plots, rather than with franchising itself.

Woe Is Me! is a series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

"Substance use is a public health matter, not a criminal justice issue," the government website said, about decriminalizing the drugs.

"The work women do, the care economy, is the backbone on which the mainstream economy rests."

The Mughal dynasty's presence in Indian history threatens the idea of a homogenous Hindu past -- and thereby, the idea of India as Hindu.