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Category Archives: Feminism
How Some Dented and Painted Women Ushered in The New Year
In Delhi, hundreds of proudly dented and painted women , with quite a few male supporters, participated in the ‘Take Back The night’ night walk in the last hours of 2012 and early hours of 2013. Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Kafila … Continue reading
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Tagged Delhi gangrape, Dented and painted, New Year, Take Back The Night march
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No One Killed Savita
Ever since I read about the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, my mind keeps going back to the circumstances which led to the snuffing out of another innocent life whose only fault was that she was female, with a uterus … Continue reading
The Very Chains That Bind Them
Sometime in the late nineties, when I was in college, there was this funny Bollywood song with a punchline that went,”It happens only in India!” A rather silly song really but it has stayed with me all these years. There … Continue reading
Where Women Must Always Be Shrinking Violets
I’ll begin by admitting that I used to think that the job of the chief of National Commission for Women is ridiculously easy for all the perks and pay it gets you. You jet-set across the country and out of … Continue reading
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Tagged 'sexy' remark, bharatiya nari, Mamata Sharma, moral police, National Commission for Women, sexy
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Being Pro-Choice In India
Writerzblock recently did a thought-provoking post on abortion, where she asked whether it was cruel or kind to abort a foetus with a congenital abnormality. Most commenters agreed that it was kind and not cruel to abort in such cases, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortions, Female foeticide, pro-choice, right to life, right to privacy, sex-selective abortions
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Inequality Thy Name is…Mother Nature
Imagining a world where women are physically as strong as men throws up some interesting perspectives into gender relations. Thinking about it one gets the feeling that the disparity in raw physical strength forms the core of gender inequality and … Continue reading
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Tagged gender disparity, gender equality, gender realtions, libido, mammalian females, mammals, testosterone, the human female
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