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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 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 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 |
August 10, 2009By Guest Contributor By Reeti Roy June 26, 2009By Guest Contributor By Payal Dhar Tags: domestic help, maids, Rape, shiney ahuja, times of india | Category: Desipundit, Media, Our Bodies, Popular Culture, Rape, Women's Lives |
June 21, 2009By Anindita Sengupta MERLE HOFFMAN in the latest issue of On the Issues Magazine: Tags: clitoris, feminist quote, judith brodsky, merle hoffman, missing women, on feminism, On the Issues magazine, sex ed | Category: Art, Identity and Destination, Media, Our Bodies |
June 18, 2009By Anindita Sengupta India blacklisted for human trafficking. 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 |
April 20, 2009By Anindita Sengupta THE PEOPLE’S Union for Civil Liberties, Karnataka (PUCL-K), has put together a very comprehensive report on Cultural Policing in Dakshin Kannada. The fact-finding team (which included our contributor Usha BN) traveled to Mangalore and conducted extensive interviews with key groups, activists, academics and the police. The report provides interesting background information on Dakshin Kannada as [...] Tags: cultural policing, Mangalore pub attacks, moral policing, pucl report | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Justice, Law, Media, Society, Violence Against women |
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