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July 26, 2010By Anindita Sengupta IT for Change. Bangalore, India. 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 13, 2010By Anindita Sengupta IN OPEN SPACE, Nandini Rao on The Neurosis of Being Perfect: Over the years, worldwide, there has been an attempt at “homogenising” notions of beauty. A global standard of age, height, weight and colour seems to have been drawn up, not connected in any way to race or natural laws of body type differences. For a [...] Tags: AWID, beauty, Kalpana Shankar, Nandini Rao, Sunanda Pushkar, young feminists | Category: Uncategorized |
December 10, 2009By Guest Contributor By Sonal Makhija Tags: act, domestic violence law, domestiv violence | Category: Desipundit, Domestic Violence, Justice, Law, Uncategorized, Violence Against women |
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 |
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 |
June 30, 2009By Oishik Sircar ON A RECENT VISIT to a Ivy League university in the US with scholars from across the Global South, we came across something strange. A book on feminism from its library had a bizarre tag pasted on it. The tag was brought to our notice by Elizabeth Weed, one of the editors of the acclaimed [...] Tags: chandra mohanty, elizabeth weed, feminism, feminism without borders, US university, women's studies | Category: Books, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Institutions, Uncategorized |
March 06, 2009By Anindita Sengupta SOME OF YOU have asked how you can help in the campaign against the attacks on women in Mangalore and Bangalore. Running a poster campaign in your neighborhood, college or office is a quick and easy way. Here are some posters I’ve received from different organizations. Click on the download link to get a large-size [...] Tags: bangalore attacks, download posters, managalore attacks, poster campaign, protest | Category: Culture, Media, Morality, Our Bodies, Politics, Uncategorized, Violence Against women |
August 29, 2008By Indhu Subramaniam UV’s BIRTHDAY? Usha and I looked at each other, our eyes saying ‘you mean it’s been a year?’ April 23, 2008By Indhu Subramaniam WORLD OVER, tax is the highest source of government revenue. Even as the finance minister in India was raising the ceiling on taxable income for women, there was a petition in the Madras High Court questioning this. The petitioner alleged that the provision of taxing women less violates men’s constitutional right to equality. The HC, [...] Tags: economics, finance, income tax, indirect tax, Money, taxation, taxes, women's finance | Category: Justice, Law, Money, Uncategorized, Women's Lives, Work Life |
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