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June 22, 2010By Aparna Singh The DVD of Love, Sex aur Dhokha has been lying around at home for some time, but it was only over this weekend that I got around to watching it. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee (of Khosla ka Ghosla fame), LSD is actually three stories in one, with peripheral links to each other. November 08, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan PENELOPE TRUNK CAUSED A tremendous controversy when she Tweeted about her miscarriage (and the fact that she was glad she didn’t have to wait for an abortion, which is difficult to get in her part of the USA). I found the controversy ridiculous on many levels – after all, many people share personal information online [...] Tags: abortion, Eve Ensler, miscarriage, Penelope Trunk | Category: Art, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Media, Morality, Our Bodies, Women's Lives |
October 22, 2009By Guest Contributor By Ramapriya Gopalakrishnan Leafing through pictures mailed by a friend, I find one of me on the beach laughing uninhibitedly with my hair streaming in the wind, and I smile to myself thinking ‘this is so me.’ I am a single woman in her thirties, have never been married and have no ‘special [...] Tags: Marriage, single women, singlehood | Category: Culture, Desipundit, Marriage, Morality, Relationships, Society, Uncategorized, Women's Lives |
July 21, 2009By Guest Contributor By Priyanka Joseph That girl at twenty- her black hair ripples Tags: femininity, hair, hairstyles, long hair | Category: Celebrating Women, Culture, Desipundit, Humour, Our Bodies, Sex and Sexuality, Women's Lives |
July 06, 2009By Meena Kandasamy RECENTLY, I PARTICIPATED in the launch function of a documentary film Pottu about the hardships and social humiliation faced by widows and deserted women in Tamil Nadu. Produced by the Kalangarai Trust which works among the widows in the southern district of Nagappattinam (particularly in Vedaranyam, Sirkaali and Poompuhaar), the 50-minute documentary attempts to [...] Tags: discrimination, Marriage, religion, social taboos, Society, Tamil Nadu, widowhood, women | Category: Culture, Desipundit, Exploitation, Marriage, Women's Lives |
July 02, 2009By Anindita Sengupta “We shall disallow travel and the mingling of songs”—this line from Jeet Thayil’s poem ‘Rules for Citizens’ makes me think about the Gay Pride Parade. Because travel is of so many kinds, much of it disallowed. At this year’s Bangalore Pride on Sunday, there was much mingling of songs as well. Tags: bangalore pride, gay pride, india gay pride | Category: Culture, Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Our Bodies, Relationships, Sex and Sexuality |
June 30, 2009By Oishik Sircar ON A RECENT VISIT to a Ivy League university in the US with scholars from across the Global South, we came across something strange. A book on feminism from its library had a bizarre tag pasted on it. The tag was brought to our notice by Elizabeth Weed, one of the editors of the acclaimed [...] Tags: chandra mohanty, elizabeth weed, feminism, feminism without borders, US university, women's studies | Category: Books, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Institutions, Uncategorized |
June 08, 2009By Aparna Singh LAST YEAR, when I read Lotus’ review of The Road of Lost Innocence, just the review was enough to send shivers down my spine. I doubt I have the stomach for the entire book. The Road of Lost Innocence is a survivor’s account, the memoir of Somaly Mam who survived the brutality of the Cambodian sex [...] Tags: film, prostitution in India, trafficking of women, your name is justine | Category: Art, Culture, Exploitation, Gender, Justice, Prostitution, Violence Against women |
March 06, 2009By Anindita Sengupta SOME OF YOU have asked how you can help in the campaign against the attacks on women in Mangalore and Bangalore. Running a poster campaign in your neighborhood, college or office is a quick and easy way. Here are some posters I’ve received from different organizations. Click on the download link to get a large-size [...] Tags: bangalore attacks, download posters, managalore attacks, poster campaign, protest | Category: Culture, Media, Morality, Our Bodies, Politics, Uncategorized, Violence Against women |
March 06, 2009By Anindita Sengupta Saturday, 7th March 2009, 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Tags: bangalore attacks, bangalore protests, DGP office march, take back the night | Category: Culture, Law, Morality, Politics, Violence Against women |
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