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March 01, 2010By Guest Contributor By Sreeparna Chattopadhyay Tags: science, women scientists | Category: Love, Marriage, Relationships, Women's Lives, Work Life |
January 19, 2010By Guest Contributor By Janice Pariat Bertha & I Tags: bertha mason, janice pariat, poem, sylvia plath | Category: Art, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Love, Marriage, Poetry, 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 |
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 |
September 16, 2009By Aparna Singh LAST SUNDAY, we had a couple of close friends over for lunch. As it happens with close friends whom one has not met for a long time, it turned out as a long, rambling lunch where we were still sitting around at 5 o’clock. By the time they left, it was late evening, and somehow [...] Tags: division of labour, gender stereotypes, gender training, housework, Indian society and women, women at home | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Marriage, Relationships, Society, Women's Lives |
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 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 |
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 |
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