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05/06/2026

In her new memoir 'Staying Alive: Dispatches from the Margins' (Pan Macmillan India, 2026), veteran public health physician Dr Ramani Atkuri exposes the stark inequities of India’s healthcare system.

The book is an urgent critique, illuminating how marginalized communities – particularly rural women and tribal populations in India’s heartlands – are systematically left behind by a fractured medical infrastructure.

Read an exclusive excerpt here: https://eshe.in/2026/06/05/ramani-atkuri-public-health/

05/06/2026

“They are not white enough, they are not brown enough, they’re not indigenous enough. They don’t fit in any of the spaces. But they are in all of those spaces.”

Chithra Jeyaram’s documentary ‘Love Chaos Kin’, which screened at the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival this month, explores adoption, love and identity told through the story of an in*******al family.

Shailaja Rao reports: 👉🏼https://eshe.in/2026/05/26/love-chaos-kin-chithra-jeyaram-siff/

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05/06/2026

05/06/2026

Random aunty on the train: Are you married?
Me: Yes
Aunty: Issue?
Me: Huh?
Aunty: (gesture of cradling a baby) Issue, issue?
Me: (returning to my book) No, Aunty. No issues at all.

Like most married couples without children in South Asia, Jammu-based educator Nikita Gupta is often asked why she doesn’t have kids, and given unsolicited advice on why she must. This essay is her response: https://eshe.in/2026/06/02/nikita-gupta-childfree-life/

22/05/2026

Meet author Christina Dhanuja at eShe Book Club discussion tomorrow!

Her stunning new book 'Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life' (Penguin India) draws on both personal experience and broader social realities. She explores how caste works not just as a deeply unjust structural system but as something deeply internalised as well – shaping how people see themselves, how they relate to others, and the choices they make.

Written over several years and across cities including New York, Chennai and Visakhapatnam, Dhanuja takes us on a personal and political journey, one that seeks to document not just conditions of survival, but the pursuit of a fuller life.

Dhanuja will be in conversation with researcher and writer Kamna Singh, whose work sits at the intersections of caste, gender, aesthetics and representation. A PhD scholar at the University of Delhi, she has worked as a sensitivity reader with media organisations and was part of the 2024 SummerSALT cohort for emerging South Asian literary translators organised by the University of Chicago.

This will be a powerful discussion! Sign up at my.eshe.in/event

22/05/2026

Behavioral scientist Dr Nishtha Lamba’s eye-opening new book ‘Trauma Nation’ maps a deep-seated menace of violence, abuse and unhealed trauma in Indian homes.

"Trauma may arise not just from what we endured but also from what we were denied."

Book review by psychology writer Apoorva Gairola: https://eshe.in/2026/05/22/nishtha-lamba-trauma-nation/

19/05/2026

“All five of us have been reporting for donkey’s years. But we joked that we could never get a national award – you have to be on ‘somebody’s side’ if you want one.”

Senior investigative journalist Namrata Sharma, who received Nepal's National Journalism Award this month, talks about the recent Gen Z-led political revolution and the state of press freedom in Nepal.

Aekta Kapoor interviewed her here: https://eshe.in/2026/05/19/namrata-sharma-national-journalism-award/