FeministsIndia breaks the news about the death of Prof. Neera Desai, who seems to have been an amazing woman.
One of the pioneers of Women’s Studies in India, Prof. Neera Desai, passed away on 25th June 2009 in Mumbai. She was 84.
Prof. Neera Desai was the Founder Director of Research Centre for Women’s Studies (1974) at [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Prof. Neera Desai – pioneer of Women’s Studies in India
Published by June 30th, 2009 in Feminism, India and Women. 2 CommentsE-Campaign for Patient Rights
Published by June 30th, 2009 in Activism, Democracy, Health, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Recommended Links, Regulation and Society. 1 CommentAditya’s 3 year old son was prescribed a drug overdose by a pediatrician for the recurring fever. This led to very severe consequences and the child needed ICU care for 3 days and a painful process of recovery due to this excessive medication. Aditya wanted to register his complaint against the pediatrician and the hospital [...]
Shivam is critical in his review of “Khairlanji: A strange and bitter crop”
All Teltumbde wants to talk about is Shudra oppressors, neoliberalism, Naxalism and the State—Khairlanji being a mere symbolic peg on which to hang all these ‘larger’ issues. Which is why you are surprised to read, on the second-last page:
Khairlanji soon got transformed into [...]
Amrit asks if it is right to mourn celebrities to the extent we do-
There surely are deaths that are far more tragic and painful than the deaths of celebrities who mostly die due to their own personal follies (most). Remember this Pulitzer-prize-winning photograph? The photographer committed suicide because he simply left the place after clicking [...]
How to claim an insurance
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Corruption, Development, Human Rights, India, Justice and Law and order. 2 CommentsAfter filing for an RTI, now it’s compensation or insurance claim. Ajay at
कोर्ट कचहरी explains us the details needed to claim for a compensation in an accident case.
ऐसे दावों में पंचाट पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चार विभिन्न मदों में भुगतान करने का आदेश प्रतिवादी को देती है. इलाज, यात्रा भत्ता, पोषाहार देतु तथा प्रभावित दिवसों में हुए आय का नुकसान .इसलिए पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चाहिए वो इलाज से सम्बंधित प्रत्येक कागज़ .दवाइयों की रसीद,अस्पताल आने जाने,रहने में लगे खर्चे की रसीदें तथा तथा पोषाहार हेतु लिए गए विशेष भोज्य पदार्थों पर हुए खर्च का सारा ब्यौरा संभाल कर रखे एवं गवाही के समय अदालत में उपस्थित करे.
LGBT issues
Published by June 28th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Human Rights and Prejudice. 0 CommentsGaybombay is happy that India media is focussing more on LGBT issues- find a compilation of recent news stories in this post.
Want to file an RTI ?
Published by June 27th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Government, India and Justice. 1 CommentYou want to know why or on what basis some decisions were taken or not taken by a public authority. In other words you want to exercise your right to seek some information but do not know how.
Ankur tells you how to file an RTI.
it makes them accountable to the public and makes it hard [...]
Two interesting poetry blogs: Khahish-E-Sang is Raza Yaseen’s Urdu ghazal blog and The Tree of Voice features his English ghazals. An excerpt from one his English ghazals:
I FEEL THAT DEATH WILL TIGHTEN ITS SKIN
WAITING FOR ME TO SHAVE THIS WORLD
FOR GOD’S SAKE DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD
OR ELSE HE WOULD ENSLAVE THIS WORLD
WHEN YOU LEAVE [...]
Different schools for different classes
Published by June 26th, 2009 in Business, Children, Education, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsAvinash thinks Kapil Sibal is progressive:
Kapil Sibal, the new HRD minister of India, seems to have taken a stand completely contrary to that taken by his predecessor, Mr. Arjun Singh – he seems to actually be interested in the development of the human resources in India… ;) I am impressed by the reforms Mr. Sibal [...]
Abi reacts to Kapil Sibal’s plans to make school level Board exams ‘optional’:
Thus, Sibal’s plan, even if it becomes a reality, is likely to benefit only a small number of students who get guaranteed seats in Class XI in their current schools. The alleged benefit of removal of exam-related stress is thus available, ironically, only [...]
Chris Rodgers clicks amazingly beautiful pictures of tigers at Ranthambhore. You have to see it to believe it.
Silence and resistance
Published by June 25th, 2009 in Caste, Dalit, Feminism, Gender & Sexuality, History, Human Rights, Patriarchy, Politics, Prejudice, Violence and Women. 0 CommentsAnu explains that silence doesn’t mean the absence of resistance:
This on the face of it seems like pretty sound explanation, so with a magic wand if we push the upper caste down the ladder, upper caste men lose their ‘manhood’ when their women are appropriated and humiliated, right? Any caste that finds itself at the [...]
“But the girls couldn’t have done it without a man, huh?”
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Cinema and Women. 0 CommentsVeracious finds some feminist glitches in Chak De India:
The thing is, I adore this film to bits. It’s refreshing, it’s gripping, it’s got a cast of absolutely terrific characters and some rare, fascinating female-female dynamics that are usually reserved for relations between the sexes or just between men in Indian cinema. And yes, it is [...]
Afanasii Nikitin
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Books, History, India, Language, Media, Travel and World. 2 CommentsFëanor translates Afanasii Nikitin’s fifteenth century memoirs of his travel to India (Journey Across Three Seas):
Who was Nikitin? He was a merchant of Tver, a principality abutting the Mongol domains in Russia. He set out down the Volga sometime in the 1470s with some merchandise, was robbed by Tartars, and decided that he could not [...]
Equal Opportunity Commission
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Policy, Prejudice and Religion. 0 CommentsTarunabh, of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, writes to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, to further the public debate on equality of opportunities.
Seems to me more like an attempt to start a private, exclusive debate among a select group of elites in the academia, lawmakers and the enforcers, among others.
Unveiling martyrs
Published by June 23rd, 2009 in Culture, Human Rights, Racism, Religion, Secularism, Women and World. 0 CommentsAlankrita doesn’t understand why a democratic nation would want to impose a dress code:
The veil , however confuses me. I find the basic idea of covering up to prevent others from getting tempted, unadulterated nonsense. But there are those who choose to. I might find that choice stupid, or ill-informed or even regressive. But then [...]
The biggest problem of a woman entrepreneur is the social attitude and the constraints in which she has to live and work. Despite constitutional equality; there is discrimination against women. In a tradition-bound society, women suffer from male reservations about a woman’s role and capacity. In rural areas, women face resistance not only from males [...]
Ordinary crime
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Democracy, Human Rights, India, Justice, Media, Policy, Politics, South Asia and Violence. 0 CommentsAjay Govind spends what seem to be ten not-so-ordinary days in Kashmir:
But the words that caught my attention were from the title of that piece. ”I’ve learnt how ordinary crime becomes an issue”. Here were his ‘exact’ words from the interview itself “…It’s a case study for me to understand how if not handled right, an [...]
Child labour- a timeline
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Children, Education, Human Rights, Policy and Poverty. 0 CommentsKeshaw Bhardwaj has jotted down some interesting notes on child labour in India.
Aparna reviews Tarquin Hall’s The Case of the Missing Servant:
The Indian class system and treatment of servants, rural poverty and the exodus to urban India, the stark contrast between slums and gleaming urban palaces, the tortoise-like pace of the Indian judicial system – all these become part of the case of the missing servant, Mary, [...]
No poverty of contempt here
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Blogging, Cinema, Media, Poverty, Religion and Society. 0 CommentsChurumuri follows the angry public exchange of notes that started between Amitabh Bachchan and Jug Suraiya, across the media, after the success of Slumdog Millionaire. Select portions from the post:
Bachchan:
I accuse the journalist Jug Suraiya of failing his professional ethical code of conduct by means of wilful error in the collection of facts…. He should [...]
Adnan learns about the tradition of chillas:
I was surprised and asked him to wait for a while so that I could take a look at the chilla. The gate had ‘Ya Ghaus dastgir‘ written in nastaliq Urdu. I sensed that it was Sufi-inspired shrine a la mazaar though of a different kind.
And there were dozens [...]
Right to Indifference
Published by June 20th, 2009 in Democracy, Development and Government. 0 CommentsQuirky Indian feels that the Indian bureaucracy has a sense of humour: while everyone from international watchdogs to the Maoists give them a bad rating, the babus think they know better.
Lalgarh, like Nandigram and Naxalbari, has become another addition, courtesy West Bengal, to our socio-political lexicon. Here’s an article where one of the Maoists has [...]
Anuraanan doesn’t resonate with Banno:
“But why does resonance happen only between two intellectual souls? Why can’t Amit and Nandita resonate? Why does the businessman necessarily have to be unfeeling towards nature? Or relationships? Why can’t the poetry spouting architect actually be cold and cruel to his wife, as in many instances of real life? Why [...]
Prithvi opines that the State is withdrawing in West Bengal:
This is reflected in the conditions leading to the Shalboni attacks on the CM’s cavalcade: while the government did nothing for years to counter Maoist infiltration into Lalgarh and the surrounding areas, it reacted with brutal, and terrorising, force against local tribals following the incident. The [...]
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