Not just including Major General Tanvir Ahmed’s (Pakistan’s Army) picture in an ad by the Government of India, but the Dreamer also questions why there are no women achievers on that collage:
Even if we do accept the Hon.Minister’s explanation, there is something really wrong with this picture, in my humble opinion. The caption boldly asks [...]
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National Girl Child Day gaffes
Published by January 25th, 2010 in Feminism, Gender & Sexuality, Geopolitics, Government and Media. 11 CommentsDemystifying India….
Published by December 30th, 2009 in Caste, Children, Corruption, Culture, Development, Education, Gender & Sexuality and Government. 0 CommentsIn the movie Swades Shah Rukh Khan says when asked about whether India is the best country in this world compared to others ,” I dont think that India is the best country in this world, but we have the ability, we have the resources” and for that to happen each and every person has [...]
Justice for the High and Mighty
Published by December 22nd, 2009 in Activism, Gender & Sexuality, Government, Human Rights and Justice. 0 CommentsSudhadeep Bhattacharjee comments on the ridiculous punishment handed down to ex Haryana DGP S P S Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case :
Is the price of a young girl’s life compelled to commit suicide by a man just six months? How is it that Rathore a criminal who committed that crime in police [...]
The other Mumbai
Published by December 15th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Media and Society. 0 CommentsMetallica Bhakt is making a documentary film on “Homosexuality in Urban Mumbai”. Read on as she describes her visit to the “Red Light” areas of Mumbai as part of her research. Yes, that Mumbai also exists:
After the interview, we left the place and were waiting for a cab. I managed to peep into one of [...]
So what if someone is a Ghar-Jawai?
Published by December 13th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Personal, Prejudice and Society. 2 CommentsAnju Gandhi thinks the term “ghar-jamai” and its negative connotation is an anachronism in a so-called gender-equal society:
I think I am drifting from my topic of GHAR JAWAI so coming back to it once again, why not treat the son in law as part of your own, like your son ? Treat him like one [...]
How to make issue-based comic strips
Published by December 9th, 2009 in Activism, Art, Gender & Sexuality, Violence and Women. 2 CommentsThat was the title of the workshop organized by the Rights Advocates group in Lucknow. Read up more here:
The outcome of the workshop was an eye opener of sorts on questions like, “What are the most pertinent issues that affects the youth? How do they articulate the issues and what solutions do they suggest?
Three main [...]
Q&A with the other half
Published by November 28th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality and Humour. 0 CommentsNicole writes about some of the common complaints guys and girls have against each other. You’d probably enjoy these more if you can throw yourself back into the shoes of your 18-year old self:
Accusation # 2
G: Aacche saaf – sutre Kapde inki Aalmariyo mein hai hi nahi
B: Abbey yaar! Time kisske paas hai. Pehle unhe [...]
Had it been the other way around
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality and Humour. 0 CommentsBalvinder dreams of a world where we’re using the semantically incorrect words to describe a day, on the occasion of International Mens’ Day:
By now I had forgotten the purpose of coming out on that bright Sunday morning. I bumped into a newspaper vendor and promptly handed him some coins in exchange of a newspaper. The [...]
The hidden side of domestic violence
Published by October 30th, 2009 in Activism, Feminism, Gender & Sexuality and India. 5 CommentsUncommon sense says that :
Domestic violence against men by their spouse rarely come out in the open due to some obvious reason. A man wouldnt go out and tell the world, or say to his friends, or other relatives that his wife beats the hell out of him. The men are in a situation similar [...]
Joru ka Gulam
Published by October 21st, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Humour and Personal. 3 CommentsThe Indian Homemaker had polled on her blog about the definitions for Joru ka Gulam; what would you describe as the ideal henpicked husband. Check out the list of responses. There’s even a poll going on!
He has a feminine side to his personality; he is androgynous in many ways.
He hates dowry and can boycott his [...]
Bigamy flourishes….
Published by October 7th, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, Human Rights and India. 0 CommentsBigamy may be ostensibly legal for Muslims, but it flourishes in various guises. Deepali Gaur Singh explores :
Bigamy is outlawed in India with the exception of the Muslim minority community which is governed by its own personal/ family law. What this has, in effect, meant is that even non-Muslim men have been able to use [...]
Marrying en masse…
Published by September 28th, 2009 in Development, Gender & Sexuality and Government. 0 CommentsMass marriages in India have been used by communities to help parents with inadequate resources to manage the colossal expenses demanded by cultural norms incurred in hosting a wedding, especially since the bride’s parents are the ones who bear the costs of the ceremony. Deepali Gaur Singh examines the practice :
The success of such events [...]
The story of Thathri
Published by July 26th, 2009 in Caste, Gender & Sexuality and Society. 0 CommentsPritish Nandy in a recent article in Times of India calls Indian anime porn star Savita Bhabhi as a symbol of Indian women’s liberation. But you don’t need to dig into comics to find a woman who used her sexuality to fight against an unjust system and oppression. Maddy tells the story of Kuriyedathu Thathri [...]
I managed to capture the Pride moments at Bhubaneshwar this year and it was more of revisiting the first event at Bangalore last year. People giggled after the first few shouts of “Section 377 hai hai and Section 377 bye bye”, but there was no stopping them once they tasted the success of their own [...]
Today is our heritage..
Published by July 2nd, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, History, Human Rights, India, Justice, LGBT, Prejudice, Regulation and Religion. 5 CommentsDilip says – today gives reason for every Indian to celebrate:
Well, the best news of I don’t know how long is what transpired in the Delhi High Court today. The judges there did overturn Section 377. No longer are our gay brothers and sisters breaking the law by doing what the rest of us do [...]
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.
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 [...]
Instinct control?
Published by June 15th, 2009 in Children, Education, Gender & Sexuality, Media and Women. 0 CommentsThe young can’t be taught ‘dignity of restraint’ when the media doesn’t show any according to Amodini Sharma, who advocates earlier sex education in schools.
Watch Indian TV nowadays, and if it isn’t Ekta Kapoor’s sindoor-anointed, scheming pativrata naris in backless cholis, it’s pretty young things in short-short skirts swinging to some very suggestive lyrics. Sexy [...]
On Savita Bhabhi
Published by June 14th, 2009 in Fiction, Gender & Sexuality, Internet, Society and Women. 5 CommentsItty Abraham researches Savita Bhabhi:
Or are we closer to Ashok, driven by the pressures of an unrelenting work schedule, who never gets a chance to enjoy the fruits of the new urban paradise that his labors have helped create? Doomed to invisibility if he ever gets off the treadmill, his rewards are a domestic space [...]
‘Madhavikutty’
Published by June 3rd, 2009 in Books, Feminism, Gender & Sexuality, Language, Literature, Media and Women. 1 CommentJo is ’sad because she wouldn’t be there anymore to speak of love’:
For most of the Malayalees, Madhavikutty was a porn writer. Ask the common public, who couldn’t see the truly original soul that she was, about Madhavikutty and they would say, “I know, I know… she is the one who wrote “Ente Katha” (My [...]
Ultra Violet
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in Blogging, Feminism, Gender & Sexuality, Human Rights, Internet, Patriarchy, Society and Women. 0 Comments..is back. At http://ultraviolet.in in a new home. Please go check.
I am just wondering why this video, by the Israeli arms dealer Rafael, hasn’t made much noise in India, both in the patriotic sense and through a gender point of view. From Nonna Gorilovskaya of Women and Foreign Policy:
In this Israeli video, a man decked out in a black leather jacket (clearly, Israel) serenades a [...]
Women’s representation in parliament
Published by May 26th, 2009 in Caste, Democracy, Gender & Sexuality, General Elections 2009, Human Rights, Justice, Patriarchy, Policy, Politics, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsDeepali Gaur Singh writes on the unfinished business of women’s representation in parliament:
India ranks 115th of 162 countries in terms of gender development. Lack of representation directly translates into a de-sensitized political leadership that is completely cut-off from the issues facing half the population of the country. It also results in disproportionately less legislation empowering [...]
Over at Desicritics, Sumanth calls upon men to question the traditional role of males in society, following the Supreme Court’s recent verdict that the wife is always right.
Men have to take some time out of IPL, workplace gossip, CNBC and International politics, to come down to smaller issues of life. They have to create some [...]
Physical structures– Mothers and Others
Published by April 6th, 2009 in Children, Gender & Sexuality, Human Rights, India, Indiaspora, Prejudice, Science & Technology, Society, Spotlight Series and Women. 9 Comments[ This is Essay No. 34 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Physical structures– Mothers and Others
By Anu
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I have started to feel physical spaces change, ever since I became a mother a few years back. They appear changed in response to my changed status. Not in their form, function or appearance but in [...]
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