Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi writes on history, culture and politics, with a clear focus on preserving authentic narratives and challenging distortions.

The sound of a qawwali for Bhagwan Ram’s wedding was a choice

Mangal Rang was released on 25 October, eleven days before Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana reaches theatres. It celebrates the union of Bhagwan Ram and Devi...

Blame the rapist, not the Goddess

Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: "They worship goddesses but rape women." "Nine days of worship, 365...

Why wait for the verdict when there’s a camera?

On 12 October 2026, the INDIA bloc marched on the Supreme Court. Delhi closed entry and exit at six metro stations for it. Rahul...

Turn it down: Badrinath is not a concert venue

There are some places where silence is not an absence of sound but itself a form of worship. Places where one does not go...

Jamui was not ‘moral policing’

What exactly does a girl have to do to be allowed to come home safely? Study. Come back before dark. Stay on the main road....

What Rahul Gandhi gets wrong about patriarchy

In the humid evening air of Pune’s AISSMS College ground on 22 August 2026, thousands of young women gathered under the banner of Congress’s...

Being Gen Z isn’t a free pass to do anything

In the high-altitude, strategically sensitive terrain of Ladakh, near the Minimarg checkpoint on the Kargil route, a viral video captured something far more disturbing...

How India celebrates menstruation

Once every year, at Kamakhya, one of the most profound celebrations of womanhood unfolds. The doors of the temple close. Not because of the...

If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women?

If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women? I am sure most of us have come across this line at some...

The unanswered question in the NCERT ‘Dancing Girl’ controversy

If you happen to visit the National Museum in Delhi someday. Try to locate one glass case in the Harappan gallery. If you’ll get...