Sanjukta Bose

When teachers bring in their biases into the classroom, they risk affecting an entire generation.
Mus doesn’t remember much from their childhood or school days, but one memory remains palpably alive. “I’ve always had this thing about body hair. I reached puberty a bit earlier than other boys my age and I was very uncomfortable with the hair on my legs, it always made me feel weird and I hated wearing my school shorts,” they told Re:Set. Mus, a non-binary writer and mental health advocate base...

In 2021, reading the news is an extreme sport. In the latest installment of news-that-makes-you-think-we’re-living-in-a-simulation-controlled-by-lizard-people, there will now be a woke version of the Hunger Games where people fighting to end structural inequalities will have the chance to try their hands at reality TV. CBS announced a new five-week reality series called “The Activist” where six inspiring activists will team up with three “high-profile public figures” to bring meaningful chang...

Unlike what people’s Instagram would have us believe, the trauma of the second wave has left an indelible mark.

ith the easing of lockdown and travel restrictions across the world, it seemingly appears that the worst of the second wave of COVID-19 is over. Reports of tourists thronging hill stations and the reemergence of vacation posts on social media are a reminder of how terribly short public memory can be. But unlike what people’s Instagram stories would have us believe, the trauma of the...

It continues the centuries-long tradition that moralizes food and shames people for finding joy in it.
Recently, researchers in New Zealand and the U.K. have come up with a terrifying solution to the “obesity epidemic” — a magnetic contraption installed in the mouth that locks people’s jaws shut and restricts them to a liquid-only diet. Experts studying nutrition and eating disorders have expressed their horror at this “barbaric” device but the researchers from University of Otago, New Zealan...

Mae Martin’s dark comedy offers a nuanced depiction of serious issues, all the while making its viewers LOL.

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s “Feel Good.”

The second and final season of Netflix’s “Feel Good” will leave you feeling a lot more than just that. The semi-autobiographical dramedy created by comedian Mae Martin and writer Joe Hampson packs in a punch despite, or perhaps, because of its brevity. The protagonist, played by Martin herself, is a recovering addi...

It continues the centuries-long tradition that moralizes food and shames people for finding joy in it.
Recently, researchers in New Zealand and the U.K. have come up with a terrifying solution to the “obesity epidemic” — a magnetic contraption installed in the mouth that locks people’s jaws shut and restricts them to a liquid-only diet. Experts studying nutrition and eating disorders have expressed their horror at this “barbaric” device but the researchers from University of Otago, New Zealan...

Mae Martin’s dark comedy offers a nuanced depiction of serious issues, all the while making its viewers LOL.
Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s “Feel Good.”
he second and final season of Netflix’s “Feel Good” will leave you feeling a lot more than just that. The semi-autobiographical dramedy created by comedian Mae Martin and writer Joe Hampson packs in a punch despite, or perhaps, because of its brevity. The protagonist, played by Martin herself, is a recovering addi...

Billie Eilish has broken the internet once again — this time with her interview and photoshoot for British Vogue’s June 2021 cover issue. Her Instagram post featuring it has broken the record for reaching one million likes the fastest — a feat that the singer achieved in under six minutes. Another photo from the same shoot that Eilish posted is among the top five most-liked photos on Instagram.

And the reason the singer is breaking all records is not hard to find — ditching the iconic baggy, ...

Sarah has wanted to do sex work, specifically porn, for a very long time now. It is only recently, in her forties, that she decided to just go for it and began creating content on OnlyFans.
“I’m a very sexual person. I didn’t always have the confidence to explore that side of me. I’ve thought about doing porn since I was a teen,” Sarah told me. But when Covid hit, she found some free time for herself as her job as a veterinary nurse required her to work every other week for shifts. “Then some...

Whenever the volunteers at Rangeen Khidki Foundation (RKF) begin with their capacity building workshops in the slums and outskirts of Kolkata, questions about the female reproductive system are mostly met with giggles and blank stares. Sometimes there are aghast expressions and embarrassed smiles.
But by the end of a two-and-a-half hour session, girls can be seen animatedly discussing the age at which they began menstruating and how many days their periods last for.

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When I think of the word ‘genius’, the first image that comes to my mind is that of Albert Einstein; specifically those black and white posters with the photo where he’s sticking out his tongue, and with an inspirational quote underneath it. I’ve come across such posters in my school, a doctor’s chamber, and on the cover of a notebook someone once gifted me, among others.
When I think a little harder, I think of all the literary geniuses I’ve had the opportunity of rea...

One of my favourite T-shirts during my undergrad years was a pink one with tiny printed stick figure dolls in different yoga poses. I often wore it to college, and once it started wearing out, promoted it to the nightwear section of my wardrobe. It made a brief stint in public once again during a particularly messy Holi, after which the stick figures faded behind the stubborn blue-green battle scars of water balloons.
My favourite pink tee was granted a new lease of life when my mother found ...

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The Madhya Pradesh cabinet, last week, approved the draft of the controversial and regressive Freedom of Religion Bill 2020, under which forced conversion of a minor, woman or a person from Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe would draw a minimum jail term of 2-10 years with a minimum penalty of Rs. 50,000. With this law in place, Madhya Pradesh will become the second Indian state after Uttar Pradesh to pass legislation that is aimed to ta...