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At a conjuncture when discourses on gender are not merely supplementing but profoundly reconfiguring the very foundations of academic knowledge and social life, the present issue of the Asha Paras International Journal of Gender Studies offers a timely, critical...

1. Vedic Rishikas and Western Women Trailblazers: From Seers to Scientists

The early Vedic period (~1500–500 BCE) featured an advanced, institutionalized framework for female education and research, operating nearly 3,000 years before the Western world granted women basic academic liberties...

2. Indian Knowledge Systems and Gender: Recovering Women's Epistemic Agency and Reimagining Equity

The renewed academic and policy interest in Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), spurred in part by the National Education Policy 2020, has largely proceeded without a sustained gender lens. This paper argues that any serious recovery of indigenous Indian epistemologies must simultaneously...

3. A Sentiment Analysis of Gender, Deific Address, and Philosophical Universalism in the Īśā Upaniṣad

This paper applies a gender-focused computational lens to the Īśā Upaniṣad, the shortest and canonically first-ranked text of the Muktikā canon...

4. Ecofeminism and Women's Labour: Theoretical Reflections on Sustainability and Gender Justice

Ecofeminism provides a critical framework for understanding the interconnected exploitation of women and nature under patriarchal, capitalist, and hierarchical systems...

5. Gender Dimensions of Cybercrimes: Why Do Women Get More Easily Trapped in Cyberspace?

Though men and women are equally susceptible to cybercrimes of various forms, they have a gendered dimension, which has not yet received due attention from development scholars or law enforcement officers...

6. Chit Funds to CSR: Governing the Erasure of Women's Indigenous Financial Knowledge in India

India's Corporate Social Responsibility law treats women's financial literacy as a gap to be filled. This paper argues that the gap is often a design failure, not an information failure...

7. A Study of Education and Women's Participation in Economic Activities in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

Due to institutional and socioeconomic constraints, women in Uttar Pradesh still face obstacles to work and education. With an emphasis on socioeconomic variables and government assistance...

8. Gender And Governance: A Study on Women's Role in Kebang Among the Adi Tribe in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh

The Adi, one of the major tribes in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, has been following a traditional political institution called kebang, since time immemorial...

9. Breaking Digital Barriers: Reimagining the Right to Be Forgotten in India for Gender-Inclusive Online Spaces

The rapid growth of digital platforms has raised increasing worries about privacy, online harm, and vulnerabilities related to gender, especially for women...

10. Historical Impression of Gender on Ecology in the Indian context

This paper presents a historical and conceptual appraisal of the gendered dimensions of ecological knowledge, stewardship, and environmental change in India...

11. Women in the Digital Age: Challenges of Cyber Violence

The digital revolution has significantly expanded women’s access to education, employment, entrepreneurship, communication, political participation, and social networking...

12. The Indian Knowledge System and the Bhakti Movement: A Fresh Perspective

Indian Knowledge System demonstrates significant intellectual achievements with enduring cultural and societal impacts...

13. Indian Knowledge System and Gender Perspective: Revisiting Women's Intellectuality from Antiquity to the Present

The Indian Knowledge System (IKS) — the vast, plural corpus of philosophy, science, arts, and epistemology that has developed on the Indian subcontinent over millennia...

14. The Goddess Matangi - Reclaiming the Wild Feminine in Indian Knowledge Systems

Among the ten Mahavidhyas, the ninth Mahavidhya- Matangi- remains one of the least studied and most provocative. Some consider her a more intense, inward-looking version of Goddess Saraswati...

15. Book Review: Gender Power Dynamics: Changing Context and Challenges (Part-I)

Edited by Prof. Asha Shukla, Prof. Sabiha Hussain, Dr. Jaya Phookan, and Dr. N. Murugeswari is a timely and thought-provoking edited volume that critically examines the complex relationship between gender and power...

16. Book Review: Gender Power Dynamics: Changing Context and Challenges (Part 2)

The team of editors have successfully brought out a compelling and timely volume that interrogates the intersection of gender and power in society as a sequel to the first volume...

17. Book Review: Auschwitz: A Love Story

18. Conference Report: International Conference on "Breaking Barriers, Building Inclusive Spaces Challenges and Strategies to Address Gender Disparities"

The International Conference provided an academic and interdisciplinary platform to examine continuing gender disparities in education, employment, healthcare, representation...

19. Conference Report: The four-day International Conference on Feminist Activism and Human Rights

The deliberations focused on structural, intersectional rethinking of Violence Against Women through Global and Local Lenses...

20. About the FFM - From Patriarchy to Partnership: Women's Leadership, Participatory Governance, and the Imperative for a Global AGI Constitution

In a world beset by rising authoritarianism, deepening divisions, and the existential risks posed by both war and emerging technologies, the Founding Mothers Movement (FMM) stands as a transformative force...

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