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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 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. October 22, 2009By Guest Contributor By Ramapriya Gopalakrishnan Leafing through pictures mailed by a friend, I find one of me on the beach laughing uninhibitedly with my hair streaming in the wind, and I smile to myself thinking ‘this is so me.’ I am a single woman in her thirties, have never been married and have no ‘special [...] Tags: Marriage, single women, singlehood | Category: Culture, Desipundit, Marriage, Morality, Relationships, Society, Uncategorized, Women's Lives |
July 17, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat ACCORDING TO THE calendar Parsis follow, today is my birthday. It is an event only family and very close friends know about, the more popular occasion being my date of birth next weekend. Of the seven people who wished me a Happy Birthday today, four followed it up with blessings for a good sasroo, i.e. [...] Tags: blessings, freedom of choice, Indian society, Marriage, Parsi, Society, women | Category: Desipundit, Gender, Institutions, Marriage, Society, Women's Lives |
July 16, 2009By Aparna Singh LATELY, I SEEM TO BE hearing a lot about the break-up of marriages and subsequent divorces. There was the Hiphop Grandmom writing on incompatible alliances and how they’ve led to the breakdown of marriages. Then, today, over at the F Word Blog, I read a piece on how British Tory party members want a provision for a [...] Tags: divorce, families, Indian society, Marriage | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Marriage, Relationships, Society, Women's Lives |
July 06, 2009By Meena Kandasamy RECENTLY, I PARTICIPATED in the launch function of a documentary film Pottu about the hardships and social humiliation faced by widows and deserted women in Tamil Nadu. Produced by the Kalangarai Trust which works among the widows in the southern district of Nagappattinam (particularly in Vedaranyam, Sirkaali and Poompuhaar), the 50-minute documentary attempts to [...] Tags: discrimination, Marriage, religion, social taboos, Society, Tamil Nadu, widowhood, women | Category: Culture, Desipundit, Exploitation, Marriage, Women's Lives |
October 10, 2008By Sharanya Manivannan UNMANA INITIATED a lively discussion on marriage a few weeks ago, and there is news now that the institution as we legally define it in India may be set to change. Maharashtra is picking up the cause of legalising live-in relationships and providing more rights to extramarital female parties within a marriage. The state cabinet [...] Tags: Institutions, Law, live-in, Marriage, Relationships, spouse, wife | Category: Institutions, Law, Marriage, Relationships, Women's Lives |
September 16, 2008By Unmana Datta HELLO UV READERS! I’m excited to be writing my first post here. And going by the old feminist slogan, “the personal is political”, my first post is about something that is intensely personal: marriage. My views on marriage have always been ambivalent. Even as a child, I recognized that most marriages I saw around me [...] Tags: couples, living together, Love, Marriage, Relationships, sexism, stereotypes | Category: Culture, Law, Love, Marriage, Morality, Society, Women's Lives |
November 17, 2007By Dilnavaz Bamboat AT THE WEDDING of a friend recently, I stood among close friends, showering the newly-married couple with marigolds and rose petals, a lump forming in my throat as I prayed for the couple’s happiness. In the midst of this sentimental moment, I heard a familiar voice declare with great satisfaction, “At last, she is Mrs. [...] Tags: feminism, last names, Marriage, names | Category: Identity and Destination, Marriage, Society |
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