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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 |
August 04, 2010By Guest Contributor By Sumana Roy He always snips off ends. My tranquil ends, 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 [...] May 17, 2010By Guest Contributor By Sankari (translated by Anu Roy) EVERYONE IS SYMPATHETIC of a pregnant woman. But in my opinion, pregnancy is only a 10-month torment which might happen once or twice in a woman’s life. On the other hand, the torment a woman goes through each month when she is not pregnant is a life sentence. Freedom, Stayfree, [...] Tags: menstruation, sanitation facilities, women's health & wellbeing, women's hygiene | Category: Money, Our Bodies, Society, Women's Lives, Work Life |
March 20, 2010By Dilnavaz Bamboat MY PIANO TEACHER LIVED two floors below us. A large lady with a stentorian voice and glasses dangling on her ample bosom, she caressed the ivories with a passion most teenagers reserve for romps in the hay. Single and living alone, music was her life and her students her family. That she was a stellar [...] January 28, 2010By Dilnavaz Bamboat THAT’S NOT THE TITLE of a sitcom. (Though it could be –think I should sell the idea?) I once said that to someone. Meant it too. And I’m so proud of the way I restrained myself from going for his jugular when the oh-so-patronizing “Honey, it’s PMS” (hand pat included) was tossed my way, like [...] 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 |
November 19, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat THE AUDIENCE WAS FLUSH WITH estrogen, but had a heartening dose of the Y chromosome. I wondered if the cocktail reception that preceded the event was a marketing ploy or a genuine attempt to fortify our spirits for what was to come. I found out soon enough. 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 29, 2009By Guest Contributor By Lalit Narayan Miscarriage Tags: abortion, medicine, violence | Category: Desipundit, Our Bodies, Poetry, Violence Against women, Women's Lives |
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