Sandyk expresses his views on an article by Barkha Dutt in which she refers to the IPL cheerleaders as ‘white trash’:
But I can not blame her since Indian morality is a big issue with people in power and public domain. We do not like things which make us uncomfortable. We have not learnt the art [...]
Archive for the 'Prejudice' Category
‘White trash’?
Published by May 3rd, 2008 in Culture, Media, Prejudice, Sports and Women. 0 CommentsWhen I learnt that Davis was getting married, I asked him whether he was doing that out of compulsion from his mother. He was not. The truth is, he had enough of all the unstable relationships and was wishing for some stability in his life. So here is a guy who knows his ways with [...]
What destiny a daughter fulfilled
Published by April 28th, 2008 in Development, Feminism, Fiction, Prejudice, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsDr. Motion pens a beautiful story that ends thus:
You are lucky that times have changed, your mother was not fortunate enough to follow her heart.
Don’t worry, I haven’t really given the ending away. Please read it.
Dignity, among other things
Published by April 21st, 2008 in Caste, Human Rights, Personal, Poverty and Prejudice. 0 CommentsJina asks whether reservation ensures dignity, and instances from her life leaves her with shades of grey. Nice read.
This, in one of the most evolved campuses known for its social conscience and moral fibre.I have heard sob stories from fellow management classmates [who happened to be belonging to a caste which offered him reservation] on [...]
Who cares if its a girl?
Published by April 21st, 2008 in India, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsIn a really heartbreaking account, Roop Rai chronicles the unfortunate state at the RSRM hospital at Royapuram, Chennai where two families who have had children born the day before laying claim to male child, while nobody wants the female one.
“We paid them money at every stage. A ward boy took Rs 300 saying it was [...]
MAC Attack
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Appeal, Community, Feminism, Personal, Prejudice, Society, Women, sexual harrassment and sexuality. 0 CommentsEllie 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 [...]
Specimen of brilliance
Published by April 14th, 2008 in Education, India, Media and Prejudice. 14 CommentsMridula 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 [...]
Mandal lives!
Published by April 11th, 2008 in Caste, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Politics, Prejudice, Society and public space. 6 Comments I started out with the intention of linking to both sides: blogs that oppose reservations and those which support them. Less than two pages of Google Blog Search results yielded these reactions:
Jasdeep feels reservations won’t undo the damage done by a poor public education system:
Revolutionary changes needs to be done in Education system, But [...]
‘Of Laws and Lawmakers’
Published by April 6th, 2008 in Government, Justice, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsThe Government of India woke up to the fact that the Development of Women and Children is important enough to be granted a Ministry of its own, only in 2006. Before that this onerous responsibility was carried out by a Department , which did not exist before 1985. No better source than the horse’s mouth. [...]
Bhumika
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in Activism, Caste, Feminism, Human Rights, Language, Media, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsIn 1993 in Hyderabad a group of women from different feminist organisations decided to venture into the challenging terrain of publishing a feminist magazine in Telugu and the first issue of Bhumika came out in the month of Jan1993.
Bhumika Women Collective emerged in the context of the women’s movement as a felt need to make [...]
Makkal Sakti
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Economy, Indiaspora, Language and Prejudice. 0 CommentsNoticed this interesting blog ‘Makkal Sakti‘ (which, I guess, means ‘People’s Power’ in Tamil) which focuses on issues facing Malaysian Indians. This post by Joe Fernandez, a former newspaper editor, unveils one perspective on the recent unrest in Malaysia:
Does the fate of the Tamils in Malaysia hinge solely on the government? The Tamils are the [...]
Unchaahi
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, India, Media, Prejudice, South Asia and Women. 0 CommentsUnchaahi is a new group blog that aims to be a ‘voice against Female Genocide (a result of sex-selective abortions, and murders of female infants also known as female infanticide) focused specifically in the Indian Subcontinent.’ An excerpt from a recent post (on Ekta Kapoor soaps) by Roop Rai, one of the contributors:
I wondered then, [...]
Tibetan Protest in Nepal
Published by March 19th, 2008 in Activism, Politics, Prejudice and South Asia. 3 CommentsSirensongs posts an account of a monk protesting against China getting attacked in Nepal. A sad account by all counts and some disturbing pictures.
I looked down for just a moment to adjust my camera. Out of nowhere I heard a sickening thud and people started running. I ducked under the porch of the Nyingma Temple [...]
Calling Into Question
Published by March 19th, 2008 in India, Justice, North East, Prejudice, Racism, Spotlight Series and Women. 1 Comment[ This is Essay # 27 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Calling Into Question
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Swar Thounaojam
“In the old days, they didn’t even know they were Kurds. And it was that way through the Ottoman period: None of the people who chose to stay went around beating their chests and crying, ‘We are the [...]
Memories of the 1984 Riots
Published by March 18th, 2008 in India, Prejudice and Society. 0 CommentsSidhusaaheb has posted his father’s writings on the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots.
We were in office on 31st October when the news of Indira Gandhi’s assassination came in. There were no ill-feelings among the staff members except one or two personal clashes.
However, when we went to office on 1st November, the atmosphere had totally changed. People [...]
God doesn’t understand Tamil?
Published by March 9th, 2008 in Caste, Language, Prejudice and Religion. 1 CommentHarini welcomes the singing of Tamil hymns in the Nataraj temple in Chidambaram:
And, this is 2008. Devotees still face the kind of threat that Tulsidas faced when he rewrote the Ramayan in Brij Bhasa and Jyaneshwar translated the Bhagwad Gita into Marathi … thereby making them accessible to all. People of all types arent’ allowed [...]
Aishwarya writes about Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman, something like a fictional account of the history of the Civil Rights movement, but with the colours reversed:
…..Blackman’s biggest achievement is in her portrayal of the numerous seemingly minor things that go into racial constructions. Possibly my favourite moment in the book is when Persephone (whose [...]
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 [...]
Ask the Ambanis, Bachchans, Tatas, Birlas, Godrejs to get out of Mumbai
Published by February 12th, 2008 in India, Language, Politics and Prejudice. 0 CommentsCuckoo has some questions for Raj Thackeray:
Do you have any idea what impact your insane statement will make eventually ? Have you forgotten Godhra or Babri Masjid ? Do you ever realize what will happen if other states also follow the same suit ? Are you not on the path of creating many countries within [...]
Abuse of corporate email and abusive email
Published by February 11th, 2008 in Business, Caste, Culture, Dalit, Economy, Education, India, Policy, Prejudice, Religion and Society. 1 CommentArzan notices a ‘disturbing trend’ emerging in India: he’s convinced forwarded chain emails constitute abuse of corporate mail. He also thinks the MNCs which allow employees to abuse corporate email in this fashion can be sued for hurting the feelings of some sections:
The email contents are generally
A list of 12 reasons why men are better [...]
Demand for the establishment of Sexual Harassment committees
Published by February 9th, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Appeal, Caste, Feminism, Human Rights, Justice, Prejudice, South Asia, White Ribbon Campaign, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsThe blogosphere has been largely silent on the Patan Gang-rape incident except for Atrocity News which covers incidents on Caste atrocities.
From news reports,
“The victim said she was gang-raped at least 14 times during the last six months in the college laboratory and computer room, where she was summoned under a threat that her career would [...]
Touchy Indians Inc
Published by February 8th, 2008 in Activism, Culture, Democracy, Humour, Media, Politics, Prejudice, Women and public space. 0 CommentsKajal Iyer describes one busy day in a modern day Indian journalist’s life: in the morning, she has to meet Naare Nath, head of Touchy Indians Inc which holds ‘copyright, trademark, IPR and every other documentation’ on the naara Halla Bol.
‘If we didn’t raise our voice frequently, our Indian culture and ethos would have ceased [...]
‘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 [...]
More on Thackeray
Published by February 6th, 2008 in Culture, India, Language, Politics, Poverty and Prejudice. 0 CommentsThackeray and the recent events in Mumbai seem to be on many bloggers’ minds- so, here are a few more posts on the issue:
Sahadevan isn’t happy with the inaction of the Maharashtra government either:
Some political parties have no good policy for people. They are befooling people, divide and rule what BJP and Congress have been [...]
Congress loves the Thackerays?
Published by February 6th, 2008 in History, Language, Politics and Prejudice. 0 CommentsAbhinandan Mishra foresees the unfolding of an old story in Maharashtra: pawns become wazirs as a spineless government looks on:
The Shiv Sena was earlier more of a pawn which the Congress used to its benefit, and now the same Shiv Sena runs a parallel government in Maharashtra. There is more than enough evidence to book [...]
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