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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 |
August 04, 2010By Guest Contributor By Sumana Roy He always snips off ends. My tranquil ends, 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 [...] July 01, 2010By Sharanya Manivannan LIKE MANY WOMEN, my reaction — or shall we say relationship? — to Elizabeth Gilbert’s juggernaut bestseller Eat Pray Love (first published and 2006 and by 2008 a global sensation) was complicated. On the one hand, the book is mildly embarrassing; Eat Pray Love falls squarely in the chick [...] Tags: Books, chick-lit, choices, Committed, divorce, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Institutions, Law, literature, Marriage, Relationships, women and literature | Category: Books, Love, Marriage, Popular Culture, Relationships, Women's Lives |
June 14, 2010By Anindita Sengupta Missing Half the Story Tags: Ammu Joseph, Kalpana Sharma, Missing Half the Story | Category: Books, Media, Women's Lives, Work Life |
May 30, 2010By Aparna Singh GOOD GIRLS Don’t Talk to Boys. And vice versa, although an exception may be made for good boys who are simply lured by bad girls. Tags: children, education, feminism, Indian society and women, sexuality | Category: Institutions, Morality, Women's Lives |
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 25, 2010By Anindita Sengupta The first all-women community radio in Asia is run by 5000 Dalit women from 75 villages, and the UNFPA-Laadli Awards were given recently to 14 gender crusaders 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 |
May 12, 2010By Guest Contributor By Trisha Bora The Lonely Grave of Paula Schultz Tags: feminist art, feminist poetry, feminist writing, Poetry | Category: Art, Poetry, Popular Culture, Relationships, Women's Lives |
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