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August 31, 2010By Aparna Singh The recent Michael Arrington post on why women mustn’t blame men for their lower numbers in technology is eliciting reactions, fast and furious. While I don’t think Arrington’s tone helps, I am not going to get into the subject here. Instead, I’d like to refer you to Shefaly Yogendra’s excellent post, “Women in tech: What gives?”, where [...] Tags: career growth for women, empowering women, Gender, housework, Indian society and women, women in technology | Category: Work Life |
June 22, 2010By Aparna Singh The DVD of Love, Sex aur Dhokha has been lying around at home for some time, but it was only over this weekend that I got around to watching it. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee (of Khosla ka Ghosla fame), LSD is actually three stories in one, with peripheral links to each other. 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 |
March 20, 2010By Dilnavaz Bamboat MY PIANO TEACHER LIVED two floors below us. A large lady with a stentorian voice and glasses dangling on her ample bosom, she caressed the ivories with a passion most teenagers reserve for romps in the hay. Single and living alone, music was her life and her students her family. That she was a stellar [...] September 17, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat …YOU MAY WANT TO take a look at this invite: Anyone want to get me that yummy t-shirt in red? Tags: expression, Gender, Indian society and women, women, women's history | Category: Art, Celebrating Women, Gender, Women's Lives |
September 16, 2009By Aparna Singh LAST SUNDAY, we had a couple of close friends over for lunch. As it happens with close friends whom one has not met for a long time, it turned out as a long, rambling lunch where we were still sitting around at 5 o’clock. By the time they left, it was late evening, and somehow [...] Tags: division of labour, gender stereotypes, gender training, housework, Indian society and women, women at home | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Marriage, Relationships, Society, Women's Lives |
February 20, 2009By Aparna Singh THE HADEES he had read yesterday talked about how it was Shaitan who always tried to corrupt us. If we escaped his attempts, we would surely go to Heaven. In Heaven, rivers of milk and honey flow, thousands of Houri women serve the men and make them happy. As she remembered this, she wondered, if [...] Tags: Indian society and women, irandaam jaamangalin kadai, women and literature | Category: Art, Books, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Exploitation, Marriage, Women's Lives |
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