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December 17, 2009By Guest Contributor By Sridala Swami IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY devoured every one of the three books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, you have at least heard of it: the story of the girl with the dragon tattoo who plays with fire or kicks the hornet’s nest. She is Lisbeth Salander, abused child, accused adult and unlikely crusader along [...] Tags: shopian CBI report, shopian rape case, shopian truth, steig larsson | Category: Books, Desipundit, Institutions, Justice, Law, Our Bodies, Rape, Violence Against women, Women's Lives |
October 14, 2009By Guest Contributor By Martin Lehmann-Waldau The Indian parliament recently showed intense activity to promote women’s representation in decision-making bodies. Some months back, a bill was passed that reserves a staggering 50% of seats for women on the panchayat level. Currently under review and soon to be debated in the Lok Sabha is the Women’s Reservation Bill that promises [...] Tags: women's reservation bill | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Law, Politics, Women's Lives, Work Life |
October 13, 2009By Guest Contributor By Deborah Herbert of Population First Tags: female foeticide, girl child, special contribution | Category: Institutions, Justice, Law, Violence Against women |
July 17, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat ACCORDING TO THE calendar Parsis follow, today is my birthday. It is an event only family and very close friends know about, the more popular occasion being my date of birth next weekend. Of the seven people who wished me a Happy Birthday today, four followed it up with blessings for a good sasroo, i.e. [...] Tags: blessings, freedom of choice, Indian society, Marriage, Parsi, Society, women | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Institutions, Marriage, Society, Women's Lives |
July 16, 2009By Aparna Singh LATELY, I SEEM TO BE hearing a lot about the break-up of marriages and subsequent divorces. There was the Hiphop Grandmom writing on incompatible alliances and how they’ve led to the breakdown of marriages. Then, today, over at the F Word Blog, I read a piece on how British Tory party members want a provision for a [...] Tags: divorce, families, Indian society, Marriage | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Marriage, Relationships, Society, Women's Lives |
July 14, 2009By Anindita Sengupta WITHOUT BEING hyperbolic, let me just say that this nearly made me upchuck my morning tea. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh subjected 151 women to ‘virginity tests’. The women were to be part of a mass marriage scheme in Shadol near Bhopal. To avoid ‘complications’, the state government saw it fit to conduct physical [...] Tags: madhya pradesh, mass marriage, virginity, virginity tests | Category: Desipundit, Exploitation, Institutions, Marriage, Morality, Our Bodies, Sex and Sexuality |
July 03, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat …AND ANOTHER ONE BACK. While the decriminalization of consensual gay sex is indeed a victory for those rooting for orientation-equality (refer to this news item), constricted notions of propriety continue to be imposed on basic choices deemed even remotely threatening to social fabric. A case in point being denim. I kid you not. Jeans, according [...] Tags: ban jeans, dress code, gay rights, self determination, Uttar Pradesh | Category: Identity and Destination, Institutions, Law, Morality, Our Bodies, Sex and Sexuality, Society |
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 02, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat I CAN SAFELY—and with some amount of pride— say that I belong to one of India’s most emancipated and socio-economically advanced communities. As a Parsi, especially one born and bred in South Bombay (most Indian Parsis live in Bombay, and most Bombay Parsis live in its southern areas), it is near guaranteed that I will [...] Tags: community, faith, Parsi, religion, zoroastrian | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Institutions, Justice, Law, Marriage, Society, Women's Lives |
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. Tags: Media, Mumbai Mirror, Mumbai rape case, TISS | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Justice, Law, Media, Morality, Rape, Violence Against women |
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