Ellie posted about her encounter with one creep on her blog:
Only last week, the Sunday evening was beautiful and at around 6:30 in the evening, in broad daylight, I decided to walk down to Dodo’s place, less than a km away from my flat. I put my really wasted jeans and a very un-flattering kurta [...]
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MAC Attack
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Appeal, Community, Feminism, Personal, Prejudice, Society, Women, sexual harrassment and sexuality. 0 CommentsThe Gradwolf outlines five stages of blogging:
Phase 3:
The 0 comments becomes 1,2,3 and then 4. The guy is simply overwhelmed. Here begins the change in attitude and so in his writing. He starts writing for an audience. He doesn’t write for himself anymore. He has readers, he has sent out the feeds and he [...]
Indic Twitter
Published by April 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Community, Personal, Society and public space. 1 CommentThe joys of Twitter are many. As Kiruba Shankar finds out,
Another reason why I like Twitter because its a place where I can write down things that I think are too frivolous for a blog post. “Crap! The crow just shat on me!”.
Sometimes, it can be a place for me to type my thoughts down [...]
Elaben
Published by March 26th, 2008 in Activism, Business, Community, Poverty, Society and Women. 0 CommentsM.S.Sriram, in a long post, says it is an honour to know Ela Bhatt:
It has never been difficult to get through to Elaben. I do not know who her secretary is and when wanted her appointment, she herself would immediately respond on phone as to whether she was available at a particular day and [...]
A central park for Panjim
Published by March 12th, 2008 in Activism, Community, Environment and public space. 0 CommentsMumbaiwallah draws attention to a campaign towards a park in Panjim.
Goans have long cherished their green heritage. But with the way things are going, it won’t be long before the hills are covered with buildings, open spaces turn into corporate parks, old houses are demolished to make way for a multi-storeyed car park. What will [...]
In democracy, there is hope
Published by March 11th, 2008 in Community, Culture, Democracy, Development, Economy, Government, History, India, North East, Personal and Politics. 1 CommentRelating four stories of people he spoke to, Mishti believes there is hope for the country, if the NDA Government comes back to power.
For the sake of the aam aadmi, for the sake of the immigrant workers in Mumbai, for the sake of our highways, for the sake of our pride as Indians, for [...]
Celebrating Women’s Day
Published by March 8th, 2008 in Community, Culture, Development, Feminism, India and Women. 0 CommentsA brief round-up of blogger posts on Women’s Day, which is being celebrated today.
Chandni introspects on feminism, following the recent controversy in our blogosphere over the role of women, and questions female chauvinism.
Coming to the fundas of women’s emancipation, feminism and equality…how come this issue reeks of some sort of female chauvinism?How come women are [...]
A Valentine to the City
Published by February 25th, 2008 in Caste, Community, Culture, Indiaspora, Literature, Patriarchy, Personal, Poetry, Politics, Society, Spotlight Series and Women. 1 Comment[ This is Essay # 19 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
A Valentine to the City
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Sharanya Manivannan
Sometimes, I hate this city. I don’t deny that. There is so much to hate here. It is merciless. A crude, cruel, unforgiving bitch of a city. The meanness of its people. Sycophancy, moral (dis)order, parochialism [...]
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Adivasi, Business, Caste, Community, Culture, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Environment, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Poverty and Spotlight Series. 7 Comments[ This is Essay # 18 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Theory and Practice in a Liberal Democracy
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Rahul Banerjee
Over the past two years or so the normally un-newsworthy rural poor in India have time and again made the headlines with their vehement opposition to the forced acquisition [...]
Blank Noise
Published by February 18th, 2008 in Activism, Cinema, Community, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society, Spotlight Series, Women, public space and sexuality. 8 Comments[ This is Essay # !6 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Blank Noise
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Jasmeen Patheja
How have you felt every time you ignored a stranger’s eyes stripping you naked?
How often have you been a mute witness or spectator to street sexual violence?
How often have you whistled, passed remarks, leched, intimidated a female stranger, just [...]
‘Outsiders, insiders and others’
Published by February 7th, 2008 in Community, Culture, Development, Economy, India, Poverty and Prejudice. 0 CommentsHarini opines that the recent incidents of violence in Mumbai indicate that a ’simmering problem just boiled over’:
At the core is the fact that there is the ‘outsider’ - who doesn’t mind being the outsider - who is taking away jobs. Yesterday it was the blue collared job as the mill worker, today it is [...]
Gandhian economics
Published by February 3rd, 2008 in Capitalism, Community, Development, Economy, Environment, History and Theory. 0 CommentsHow practicable an economic philosophy was Gandhian economics? Rob Staley offers his views:
The tagline that stuck was this: “Production by the masses instead of mass production.” This roughly summarized his opinion on the direction in which India’s young budding economy should take as they pulled away from the British in the 40s. The idea was [...]
V.Venkatesan reviews Harish Damodaran’s India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation-State, a book which ‘traces the modern-day evolution of business communities’ in India
This near-synonymous identification of business with the Bania and vice versa has, however, undergone significant dilution since the early part of the 20th century, which saw the entry of [...]
Dreams die hard.
Published by January 21st, 2008 in Activism, Adivasi, Community, Development, Energy, Environment and Geopolitics. 0 CommentsRahul Banerjee writes about the struggle of an Adivasi boy fighting for his community on Anar-kali, his blog about the lives of tribal communities trudging along with Shining India.
Banerjee tries to make sense of rural development in tandem with the lifestyle of the Bhils of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh. The blog is his means [...]
How serious are you about the other 364 days?
Published by December 19th, 2007 in Community, Government, Health, Policy, Politics and public space. 0 CommentsMumbai’s Mayor, Dr. Shubha Raul, made an appeal recently for a Car-Free Day in Mumbai- Bombay Addict has some tough questions for her:
“Insufficient public transport” is not anything new to Mumbaikars. We deal with it everyday because we know the authorities aren’t interested in doing anything about our problems. A few days back, we even [...]
Social Entrepreneurs– Silently Changing the World
Published by December 18th, 2007 in Activism, Community, Development, Education, Environment, Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Poverty and Spotlight Series. 2 Comments[This is Essay #4 in our "Spotlight Series". Click here for archives]
Social Entrepreneurs - Silently changing the world
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Shantanu Dutta
When I had first heard of the Ashoka Foundation, I had imagined in my mind that it would be the social arm of a traditional Indian business house. With a name linked to the Emperor Ashoka, this [...]
Identify Yourself Gujarat!
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Activism, Announcement, Appeal, Community, Democracy, Government, Human Rights, India, Justice, Prejudice, Secularism and White Ribbon Campaign. 2 Comments
During this Gujarat Assembly Election 2007, we all need to ask ourselves some very important questions.
[click on the ballot box]
Working women
Published by December 8th, 2007 in Business, Community, Feminism, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsSo men are slowly no longer treating workplaces like an old boys club. Yet we are far from achieving true equity. And in some sense, I would think equity is not just about equal representation of women. It is about women being women and not having to completely change themselves to fit into a [...]
Land rights for sex workers
Published by November 24th, 2007 in Activism, Community, Feminism, Government, Human Rights, Justice, Politics, Society, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsSonia draws attention to the Janakeeya Samithi’s attempts to oust sex workers from Bangladesh Colony in Kozhikode.
Most of the sex workers had built houses there with their savings and their children are studying in the nearby schools. Usually they come to the town to do sex work and return home early in the morning. Now [...]
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