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August 26, 2010By Guest Contributor By Divya Rajan Your scarf spoke nine tongues. Tags: divya rajan, juarez chihuahua, poem | Category: Art, Identity and Destination, Poetry, Society, Women's Lives |
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 [...] July 07, 2010By Dilnavaz Bamboat WERE I 17 AND A POT OF MUSH, “those three words” would mean something entirely different. But as an almost-32- year-old (ooh, how I love announcing an upcoming birthday ) who has seen a bit of life and the world, the three words that get a rise out of me are these: What [...] May 25, 2010By Oishik Sircar HERE’S A PART IMAGINARY, part real email thread of conversations among faculty members at an elite law university in India. Two developments are being discussed simultaneously – one is a weekly cricket match, and the second is the establishment of a women-only Women’s Law Society. The names of participants in the conversation have been changed [...] Tags: education, Gender, India, Indian society and women, stereotypes | Category: Gender, Humour, Institutions, Society, Women's Lives, Work Life |
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 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 |
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