Making Choices: The Rhetoric and The Reality

Sanjana Gaind — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:28:04 +0000

By Sanjana Gaind

This is the third of a series of posts written from the experiences at CREA of implementing a program called “Count Me IN! It’s My Body: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Girls through Sports”. The first and second posts are here. CREA is a [...]

Book Review: The Song Seekers

Shikha Kothiyal — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:54:19 +0000

A powerful and poignant exploration of the oppressive darkness that lurks beneath the veneer of ‘modern’ India, Saswati Sengupta’s debut novel, The Song Seekers, raises compelling questions that continue to haunt the reader for a long time.

Set in the turbulent 1960s in Bengal, the novel revolves around the life of newly wed Uma, an [...]

Good Girls Don’t Dance: Film Screening Announcement

Guest Contributor — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:15:24 +0000

By Padmalatha Ravi

Date: 12 May 2013, Sunday

Time: 3.30pm to 5.30 pm

Venue: Jaaga, KH Road,Bangalore

Map - https://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=en&gs_rn=12&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=Eur7-5xPxy76OJ-yNjEQ5w&cp=5&gs_id=6&xhr=t&q=jaaga&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.bmk&biw=1280&bih=619&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

Entry fee: Free

About the film:

Good girls don’t dance. Good girls don’t go out after sun down. Good girls don’t use mobile phones or have Facebook profile. Good girls stay away [...]

Transportation as a Social Justice Issue

Shreya Pillai — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:21:58 +0000

On the evening of the 16th of December, 2012, a young woman and her male friend boarded a public bus in the city of Delhi, India, to go home after watching a movie at a local movie hall. The woman never returned home. She was raped and beaten to death by the driver, conductor and [...]

Woohoo, Jazz Hands Everyone!

Lavanya Karthik — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:36:25 +0000

[Editor's Note: Continuing with our Feminism & Humor series, here is the first of what we hope will be Lavanya Karthik's many comic strips for Ultra Violet. This was first published in the DNA, Bangalore, and can also be viewed on the cartoonist's website. Feminism and the funnies are not mutually exclusive. Come laugh with [...]

Event Announcement: Talk

Dilnavaz Bamboat — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:05:04 +0000

Women and Democratic Movements in India: Changing Dynamics, Altered Perspectives

Date & time: Tuesday, April 30, 2013; 1 pm

Venue: Encina Hall West, Room 208, Stanford University, 616 Serra St., Stanford, CA

About the event & the speaker:

Fee: This event is free and open to the public.

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Ta(l)king sex beyond English

Meenu Pandey — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:50:01 +0000

This is the second of a series of posts written from the experiences at CREA of implementing a program called “Count Me IN! It’s My Body: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Girls through Sports”. CREA is a feminist human rights organization based in Delhi (www.creaworld.org).

(Take fifteen seconds for each [...]

Unequal Knowledge: pregnancy and discrimination

Anindita Sengupta — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:32:01 +0000

We all know that mothers and babies in India are dying. We have some of the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the world and tragically, a lot of it is preventable. Access to information is key. Quite simply, many women do not do the right things because they don’t know what they [...]

Post-marital names: to change or not to change?

Nilofar Ansher — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:09:17 +0000

Choosing to take on your husband’s name after marriage doesn’t bode well for a budding feminist, at least that’s the impression I get from the heated debates that have been criss-crossing the web diaries of feminist writers in the quarter that just went by. On the one hand, we have feminist debates that focus on [...]

On sexuality education: an interview with TARSHI

Anindita Sengupta — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 05:24:46 +0000

TARSHI (Talking about Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) is a Delhi-based NGO that works on sexuality with an affirmative and rights-based approach. It runs an infoline on topics related to sexual and reproductive health, HIV, contraceptive choices, sexual and gender identities, violence, safety and pleasure. The organisation is also involved in training, advocacy and research. [...]