I’m a big fan of Vandana Singh, and I’m pleased that she’s currently blogging at Jeff Vandermeer’s Ecstatic Days. In this post, she discusses how a trek she went on in her teens was her first intimation that
a) feminism was not an exclusively Western phenomenon, and b) people, however poor and illiterate, could lift themselves [...]
Archive for October 7th, 2008
The chipko movement, genre and decolonising the mind
Published by October 7th, 2008 in Books, Feminism, India and Society. 3 CommentsDhivya on her blog titled “A wanna-be Superwoman” speaks up against the typecasting based on geographical locations:
“Where are you from?”
The small town in Kerala I was born in?
The only cosmo left Delhi where I spent my childhood and teenage years?
The biggest city of Kerala where I learnt Independence and self-crippling dependence?
Mumbai where I spent the [...]
Where there is a smoke
Published by October 7th, 2008 in Law and order, Religion and Society. 3 CommentsVivek Bharat at Desicritics writes a passionate article, examining causes behind the recent clashes in Orissa and Karnataka, and also pointing to a solution in the end:
While the Bajrang Dal and its associates cannot be in any way excused for the present violence if proven guilty, there is something that must be highlighted in its [...]
If our media bothered to check, it’d find enough research that shows that it’s not just the urban rich who find culture and entertainment an essential expenditure- the rural poor do allocate a certain portion of their incomes towards such needs. Anindita Ghose questions the presumptions underlying the media outrage over Vogue magazine using rural [...]
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