April 24, 2009By Guest Contributor Shilpa Phadke, Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayasankar ask why the reportage of the recent sexual assault of a young woman plumbs new depths in insensitive, unethical and sleazy journalism. THE PRINT MEDIA has, on many occasions, been a good friend to the women’s movement. By giving space to gender issues, specifically those related […] April 20, 2009By Anindita Sengupta THE PEOPLE’S Union for Civil Liberties, Karnataka (PUCL-K), has put together a very comprehensive report on Cultural Policing in Dakshin Kannada. The fact-finding team (which included our contributor Usha BN) traveled to Mangalore and conducted extensive interviews with key groups, activists, academics and the police. The report provides interesting background information on Dakshin Kannada […] April 05, 2009By Aparna Singh WHERE EVERY FAMILY wants a hundred sons, but not even one daughter, where infant girls are killed using many ingenious methods, or even simpler, not allowed to be born, in such a land, what is the future of womankind? Manjula Padmanabhan’s recently published novel, Escape is the dystopian vision of such a society where […] |
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