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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 |
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 16, 2009By Guest Contributor By Sanyukta Saha Tags: Ajmer sex scandal, Anuradha Marwah, Dirty Picture | Category: Books, Desipundit, Prostitution, Society, 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 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 |
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 |
August 23, 2009By Oishik Sircar INDIANS ACROSS THE WORLD celebrated their independence day with dampened fervour over the past week, to salvage nationalist pride out of the economics of infection and pathology of recession. While all this was happening, two incidents caught my attention. Tags: Hindu Right, homosexuality, independence, India, nationalism, queer, religious right | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Society |
August 13, 2009By Anindita Sengupta RECENTLY, OVER AT at Feministe, guest blogger Ren did some frank speak about being a sex worker: Tags: public spaces, sex work, sex workers | Category: Desipundit, Morality, Prostitution, Sex and Sexuality, Society, Women's Lives, Work Life |
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 |
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