Berkana

An Ode to the Motherland

…and a prayer for the world

Aug 15 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

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December 2024

Granddaughters of the Witches #2

From the Covens of Indus Valley

Dec 21, 2024 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

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36

Granddaughters of the Witches #1

Magic, Misogyny, and the Mechanisms of Separation

Dec 1, 2024 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

153

68

March 2024

A Hunger that Ravaged Bengal

Chapter from History on Starvation as a War Crime

Mar 24, 2024 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

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36

August 2023

Shards of Broken Shackles

Reflecting on India's 77th Year of freedom from the British Raj

Aug 16, 2023 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

15

27

August 2022

Pocketful of Hexes

Juxtaposing the History of Pockets to the History of Veiled Misogyny

Aug 14, 2022 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

8

13

May 2022

Wings of Fire - The Forgotten Tradition of Jauhar

The 12th-century Mass Self-Immolation Practiced by Rajput Women

May 29, 2022 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

11

7

February 2022

Holy Contraptions - A Reverie for Obsolete Kitchen Tools

And the woman who used them

Feb 5, 2022 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

13

12

January 2022

Priestesses and Prostitutes

A Life Spent in Servitude

Jan 22, 2022 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

10

6

Priestesses and Prostitutes - The Forgotten Tales of Devadasis

An Introduction

Jan 8, 2022 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

8

6

November 2021

Fight like a woman - The Warrior Nuns of the Drukpa Lineage

On the wild path of fierce compassion, these women are dismantling misogyny one flying kick at a time

Nov 14, 2021 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

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10

October 2021

02-Dance of the heretics-The Whirling Dervishes

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Oct 23, 2021 • 

Swarnali Mukherjee

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4