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October 28, 2008By Meena Kandasamy HOW DO I WRITE an article that does not sound like a celebrity too much crying paparazzi, an article where I want to discuss issues that are political but have arisen out of experiences in my personal life? How do I write an article about the dangers that women writing on gender and caste have [...] Tags: Abuse, anonymity, Caste, defamation, Dr.Ambedkar, expression, Facebook, gneder, individual, Orkut, personality, technology | Category: Culture, Identity and Destination, Law, Media, Women's Lives |
July 17, 2008By Aparna Singh A FEW DAYS AGO, when I thought about the conflict parents face when their daughters become “too liberal”, I was really thinking from my own perspective as an educated, young, urban professional. When a commenter mentioned that liberalism does not yet extend to accepting choices such as homosexuality, I was, at first, a bit startled. [...] July 10, 2008By Sharanya Manivannan I FOUND this news story about Indian “sanitation workers” (scavengers, if we avoid the euphemism) modelling in New York pretty bizarre. I do hope you’ll read the article before proceeding to comment, but in a nutshell: 36 Indian sanitation workers were invited to a conference as part of the UN’s International Year of Sanitation. In [...] Tags: beauty, beauty industry, beauty pageants, Caste, health, India, modelling, sanitation, scavenger, scavenging, waste disposal, waste management, work | Category: Women's Lives, Work Life |
December 27, 2007By Meena Kandasamy RUTH MANORAMA (1964) IS winner of the 2006 Right Livelihood Award, widely considered as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is President of the National Federation of Dalit Women and is widely known in India for her contributions in highlighting the precarious situation of Dalit women. Ruth has also contributed enormously to breaking the upper-class, upper-caste [...] |
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