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January 01, 2010By Guest Contributor By Susan Kiguli Mothers Sing a Lullaby Tags: poem about mothers, Rwandan genocide poem, Susan Kiguli, Uganda | Category: Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Justice, Law, Motherhood, Poetry, Politics, Society, Women's Lives |
December 01, 2009By Anindita Sengupta YESTERDAY, I WAS LOOKING at this report released by the World Economic Forum last month, and I started drafting a post with some excerpts. Just to make it easier for people who don’t want to read the whole thing. It was1 am, I was tired and suddenly I felt overcome with this sense of futility, [...] Tags: feminist fatigue, futility, India gender gap, silence, WEF report | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Media, Uncategorized, Women's Lives |
November 19, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat THE AUDIENCE WAS FLUSH WITH estrogen, but had a heartening dose of the Y chromosome. I wondered if the cocktail reception that preceded the event was a marketing ploy or a genuine attempt to fortify our spirits for what was to come. I found out soon enough. 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 26, 2009By Aparna Singh ALL I KNEW WAS that this non-profit group called MARAA was organising some sort of performance on gender and sexuality. A friend told me about it and even offered to pick me up. Work lay unfinished on my table, but what the hell, I decided, I could always catch up later. And that’s how we [...] Tags: aravanis, femininity, gender and sexuality, gender definition, third sex, transgender, transsexual, womanhood | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Media, Women's Lives |
October 16, 2009By Guest Contributor To Get Myself Some Water Our love toils about one period. Tags: poems about women, Poetry, poets, women | Category: Celebrating Women, Identity and Destination, Love, Marriage, Poetry, Sex and Sexuality, Women's Lives |
October 05, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat LATELY, WHILE CHANNEL SURFING, I came across two advertisements, prominently aired in prime time slots that went something like this: Category: Books, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Media, Motherhood, Our Bodies, Popular Culture, Society, Women's Lives |
September 14, 2009By Guest Contributor Iris and the sun Tags: poems, Poetry | Category: Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Love, Poetry, Work Life |
August 23, 2009By Oishik Sircar INDIANS ACROSS THE WORLD celebrated their independence day with dampened fervour over the past week, to salvage nationalist pride out of the economics of infection and pathology of recession. While all this was happening, two incidents caught my attention. Tags: Hindu Right, homosexuality, independence, India, nationalism, queer, religious right | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Society |
July 29, 2009By Guest Contributor By Lehar Zaidi Silk or the reason for my madness Tags: palestine, poems, Poetry | Category: Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Our Bodies, Poetry, Politics, Relationships, Women's Lives |
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