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		<title>Misogyny in narratives of rape in Indian media</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2012/04/07/misogyny-in-narratives-of-rape-in-indian-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonal Makhija</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; A newspaper report on the recent Gurgaon rape case concludes with the correspondent informing the readers that the victim was hired to “engage with male customers”. How is this piece of information relevant to the public at large? What does it really tell us about the crime? What it does, vaguely though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother?</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2012/01/29/mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shyama Laxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I MISSED MY PERIODS”. Shantanu looked up from his newspaper.” Does that mean you…?” “Possible. Or maybe just hormonal imbalance like the previous time” I cut in without waiting for him to finish. I didn’t want any anticipation to be built up only to be disappointed later. We had been married for five years now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the politics of rape</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/06/05/dominique-strauss-kahn-and-the-politics-of-rape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sreeparna Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A FEW MONTHS AGO, I was outraged by the French reaction to the Roman Polanski case. I am similarly outraged with the French reaction to Dominique Strauss-Kahn or DSK. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the powerful International Monetary Fund, is accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeping staff in the posh Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. The charges against DSK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s hardly a surprise</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/04/01/its-hardly-a-surprise/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2011/04/01/its-hardly-a-surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr AL Sharada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS,  all those working on the issue of falling sex ratio have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the provisional census data. That the child sex ratio (CSR) ie the number of girls per thousand boys in the 0-6 age group will register a fall was a foregone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infantile Shortshrift</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2010/07/21/infantile-shortshrift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oishik Sircar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[INDIA HAS NO law to criminalize child sexual abuse (CSA). The Prevention of Offences against Children Bill was drafted in 2005, but it has been in the cold storage despite the setting up of the Commission on the Protection of Child Rights in the same year. On a wave of moral panic after the Ruchira [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sporty Conversation on Gender in the Academy</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2010/05/25/a-sporty-conversation-on-gender-in-the-academy/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2010/05/25/a-sporty-conversation-on-gender-in-the-academy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oishik Sircar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ultraviolet.in/?p=1325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HERE&#8217;S A PART IMAGINARY, part real email thread of conversations among faculty members at an elite law university in India. Two developments are being discussed simultaneously – one is a weekly cricket match, and the second is the establishment of a women-only Women’s Law Society. The names of participants in the conversation have been changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Staying Alive’: An Audit of the Law against Domestic Violence</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/12/10/staying-alive-an-audit-of-the-law-against-domestic-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/12/10/staying-alive-an-audit-of-the-law-against-domestic-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonal Makhija</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EARLIER THIS MONTH, the ‘Staying Alive: Third Monitoring and Evaluation Report 09’ on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA) was released in Delhi. The report tracks the implementation of the Act for the third year in a row and has become a way to document jurisprudential development of the law and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Women’s Reservation Bill</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/10/14/the-women%e2%80%99s-reservation-bill-%e2%80%93-empowerment-or-besides-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/10/14/the-women%e2%80%99s-reservation-bill-%e2%80%93-empowerment-or-besides-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Lehmann-Waldau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 33% of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to listen to her voice</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/10/13/time-to-listen-to-her-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/10/13/time-to-listen-to-her-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[female foeticide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Deborah Herbert of Population First As the day of voting for the Assembly elections approaches, the political parties have been making their achievements and plans known to the voters of Maharashtra through their manifestos. With a lot at stake for the political parties in the fray, they are leaving no stone unturned to convince [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishes For A Woman</title>
		<link>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/07/17/wishes-for-a-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://ultraviolet.in/2009/07/17/wishes-for-a-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dilnavaz Bamboat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blessings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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