3 commentsSO IT’S INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day. The world’s 103rd, if slightly differing records are to be believed. On this day, your neighbourhood beauty parlor will throw in a paraffin manicure free with your hairstyle, and you’ll be bombarded with advertising that has suddenly woken up to the “celebration of women”. (You’ll be spared […]
January 23, 2014By Dilnavaz Bamboat AMAR RAO IS an intrepid Silicon Valley entrepreneur, whose specialty is the high technology sector. He currently heads marketing, sales, and business development for a start-up company. Additionally, he is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter head of Pratham USA, the American arm of the Indian education […] October 10, 2013By Lavanya Karthik [Editor’s note: One helping of healthy feminism, please! What’s your flavour of choice? 🙂 Tell us! Oh, and click on the image to enlarge it. ~ Dilnavaz Bamboat] September 12, 2013By Dilnavaz Bamboat IT DELIGHTS ME TO share this news with you: Pioneering feminist and woman of power Gloria Steinem will now be the leading lady of her very own comic book. This latest addition to Melissa Seymour’s “Female Force” series will highlight the icon’s contributions to the world. It is a bonus that her story will […] September 10, 2013By Dilnavaz Bamboat I RECENTLY RECEIVED a comment from a reader of another blog I write, stating that she didn’t believe patriarchy was such a menace in America. I read the comment, took a deep breath, and pondered on the gentlest possible way to dispel that notion without mailing her a dossier of statistics. Turns out I didn’t […] July 12, 2013By Lavanya Karthik [Editor’s note: Here is another one of Lavanya Karthik’s comic strips, as part of our ongoing Feminism & Humour series. We enjoy interacting with you and knowing what you found amusing, thought-provoking or otherwise. Please feel free to leave your comments! ~ Dilnavaz Bamboat]
[…] April 30, 2013By Lavanya Karthik [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 […] April 24, 2013By Dilnavaz Bamboat
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. […] April 05, 2013By Firdaus Soni Scene 1 Neha jumps into the local along with two of her friends. Their chirpy banter fills the space. Her boyfriend is going to join them at the next station. She is beaming with eager anticipation about the day ahead. They are all going for a movie. The train halts. Enter Gaurav. After a brief […] March 25, 2013By Richa Bhatia THEY CALL ME Indian. No, not that kind of Indian. Dot, not feather. This is the sort of thing a person of South Asian heritage gets used to being asked frequently in America. Insensitivity of those types of comments aside, there is certainly a lot one can hear about being Indian without knowing the reality, […] |
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