Mridula reminds Aditya Jha, the writer of a column in the Indian Express, that he is a moron.
Will someone go and remind Mr. Jha that the company he works for (Infosys) was co-founded by an IIT Kanpur PG. Yes, Mr. Narayan Murthi undoubtedly did a PG course from IITK and still founded a company like [...]
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Specimen of brilliance
Published by April 14th, 2008 in Education, India, Media and Prejudice. 14 CommentsFriend of Blogbharti, Jack Stephens, hosts the 21st carnival of socialism. His focus for this carnival is on South Asia and he has done a good job of assembling a lot of interesting posts.
Sights and sounds of a landfill
Published by March 3rd, 2008 in Human Rights and Photoblog. 3 CommentsDr Vivek M records audio and some powerful images of scavengers working in a landfill in Bangalore.
Watch the slideshow with the audio running in the background.
Suruchi writes about a midnight trek she went on and posts some awesome pictures.
© Suruchi
The above picture made it to the explore page of Flickr! Flickrzens will understand what that means and will definitely go ‘Wow’!
Though I was also on this trek (visit my blog for my version of the tale), I have nothing [...]
Is there a need for a new feminism?
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Feminism, India and Women. 0 CommentsSuchi thinks so.
The goal of feminism should be to create a world where it no longer needs to exist. But so long as it remains disengaged from people’s lives, it will remain a movement with limited subscribers. Whether in the West or in India, we need a new kind of feminism, one that creates change [...]
Annie’s new year pledge.
I will not stop buying ‘provocative’ clothes. I will not be modest. I will not behave. I will not treat the night as a na-mehram I cannot be seen with. I will not change my stride to side-step the maps of our molestation. I will not call a violation by any other [...]
Pidog contemplates.
The answer, I mostly get is that we are following the same practices that were followed a hundred years ago. Really? You didn’t have IT companies back then. So, working in an IT company is against “Indian Culture”. We didn’t have automobiles back then or cell phones, or television, or credit cards… and [...]
Messenger To My Lost Soul talks about Indian women’s personal space.
But I do have my radar and I can bet that no one matches the abilities of a hyper active inbuilt radar system to leering men like that of an Indian woman’s.
What is Chak de India about?
Published by December 30th, 2007 in Cinema, India, Media and Women. 0 CommentsRitik Dholakia explains what Chak de India is all about.
I write about this film not to recommend it. It’s not a good movie. But it is interesting as an example of how social mores, even simple ones, can be advanced through film. Since, in India, film and television are such popular media, dominating so much [...]
Thoughts wonders “when will Indian women wake up and smell the coffee.”
Sarojini Sahoo writes an essay on western feminism.
Since that day I was planning to write this essay on feminism for the western readers. The two queries always worry me that whether the term feminism always defined with respect to socio-economic scenario of Europe and America and the rest of world is meaning less and the [...]
Nationalistic politics and feminism
Published by November 25th, 2007 in Feminism, India and Politics. 0 CommentsSwatie analyses the politics of nationalism in pre-independence India.
Among the loudest contemporary voices protesting against such a political schema was Rabindranath Tagore. Though Tagore’s focus was largely on class and caste, and not gender issues, he is important for this argument too. A freedom movement, according to Tagore, that seeks to gloss over internal differences; [...]
The Tamil Punkster is going to host the 49th Carnival of the feminists and is calling for submissions.
I would love it if you could send me or tip off posts related to privilege and the politics of gender roles or both, but please, other posts are equally welcome! This is in no way an official [...]
Patriarchal mythology
Published by November 21st, 2007 in Feminism, India, Religion and Women. 0 CommentsThe Tamil Punkster analyses the divine feminine in Hindu mythologies.
This theme of control rears its noxious head repeatedly in these proto-legends, but it’s brilliance lies in the simple fact that it does not explicitly denounce the goddess for being autocratic or unfathomable. What it does is much much worse. It leads you on, using the [...]
Apu hosts the 46th carnival of the feminists.
Tales from the Margins
Published by October 22nd, 2007 in Human Rights, North East and Women. 0 CommentsWatch Kavita Joshi’s documentary on Manipur online.
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Peevee posts a picture he took at a Durga Pooja celebration in Bangalore.
Anindita reviews a bollywood movie.
There was ample opportunity within the storyline to show other effects or implications of commercial sex work. The fact that Sarkar chooses to make purity the crux of the matter harks back to an earlier time when nothing was considered as important for a woman as her chastity. Surely, we’ve moved [...]
Dilip thinks the real issue is not that Symonds was taunted.
You see, I couldn’t really care less about whether what cricket fans have been shouting at Andrew Symonds constitutes racism. I also think all international sportsmen must and do eventually develop a thick skin; they learn to take abuse and answer it on their terms. [...]
Don’t sing along.
Published by October 18th, 2007 in Human Rights, India, Media and Women. 0 CommentsJasmeen at Blank Noise Project compiles a list of songs.
Lauren D. Klein writes about a newspaper in Gwalior that is indeed revolutionary.
Mahila Paksh–the name loosely translates to “Women’s Side” in Hindi–is the brainchild of Rupesh Shrivastava, a 51-year-old former bureau chief with a prominent Hindi-language newspaper.
With the tag line “To the Women, By the Women, For the Women” it is India’s only publication dedicated [...]
Agency
Published by October 8th, 2007 in Activism, Feminism, Human Rights, Media and Women. 0 CommentsKavita N. Ramdas on the movie Trade.
This reality on the ground contrasts — sometimes markedly — from the images we are used to seeing, even in courageous feature films like Trade. The activists we fund are not waiting for family members or the feds to deliver them from brothels or oppressive workplaces. They are choosing [...]
Anna writes about her experiences.
“Why are you here?”
“Yeah, we thought you weren’t coming.”
“Shouldn’t you be at home crying?”
“Mrs. Doyle said you wouldn’t come in today.”
The questions assaulted me one after the other. I was baffled.
“Why…would…Mrs. Doyle say that?” I stammered.
“DUH, because Gandhi’s daughter got killed.”
“Isn’t she like your queen or something? Or a Hindu God?”
“No [...]
Stop violence against women!
Indiatime talks about two instances where women were harassed on public transportation.
Also in New Delhi today, a woman passenger was thrown out of the Blue Line bus by the cleaner of the bus. She was harassed by the cleaner of the bus, and begged other passengers for help. Nobody came to her rescue, however. And [...]
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