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August 13, 2010By Guest Contributor
By Sreeparna Chattopadhyay Tags: Roman Polanski | Category: Art, Exploitation, Justice, Law, Media, Our Bodies, Popular Culture, Rape |
July 21, 2010By Oishik Sircar 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 [...] 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 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 |
December 10, 2009By Guest Contributor By Sonal Makhija Tags: act, domestic violence law, domestiv violence | Category: Desipundit, Domestic Violence, Justice, Law, Uncategorized, Violence Against women |
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 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 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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