Voices
Some thoughts on the pain gap
A woman’s experience with pain and recovery, panic and anger, guilt and love.
June 29th 2022
Fire burning bright: Aparna’s and Amrita’s work in public health
Amrita Sarkar and Aparna Banerjee set out to demand for transgender-affirmative public-health system in India, and in the process, discovered themselves.
January 14th 2022
“I regret the years spent in academia”: a Bahujan scientist tells his story
News about Deepa Mohanan and Kripashankar Gautam prompted a journalist to revisit her decade-old interview with an IIT research scholar negotiating casteism on campus. Why has nothing changed since then, and what is the way forward?
December 10th 2021
How badly do you need that letter of recommendation?
Letters of recommendation have become a means to bully, and the evidence is all around us. Reflecting on an episode in her own life, a young scientist critically examines this dominant practice.
September 17th 2021
Keep it confidential: Signs of a broken campus mental healthcare system
A bitter experience with the institutional psychologist reminded this young researcher that bad mental healthcare can be just as harmful as no mental healthcare.
September 2nd 2021
“I have only brought them pride”: A trans doctor’s journey in medicine
What does it mean to be a transgender person in medicine? A researcher in community medicine and a transgender woman, Aqsa Shaikh tells her story through this comix.
August 27th 2021
Indian news media has a representation problem—Let’s do something about this!
Journalists can either continue to blame historical injustices and persist with their old habits, or they can actively start diversifying their reports. A new crowdsourced list aims to accelerate change.
June 29th 2021
Your silence is an apartheid for us: Grace Banu
As Pride Month comes to a close, we are reminded of a recent powerful speech by engineer Grace Banu. Spare a few minutes for her message to Savarna and cis-gender allies.
June 26th 2021
Transcript of ‘Get Out of Class’ Webinar on Casteism in Indian Higher Education Institutes
A multimedia transcript of the Webinar ‘Get out of class: Caste and casteism in our top institutions’.
June 2nd 2021
The silver lining
A young woman in science opens up about going through worsening mental health during her PhD and coming out of it stronger.
March 8th 2021