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June 12, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan ONE OF INDIA’S most beloved writers, Kamala Das, passed away after a long illness on the morning of May 31 2009. A poet and memoirist, she died at the age of 75, after a long and conflicted career. Tags: author, controversy, Kamala Das, literature, obituary, poet, Poetry, sexuality, video, writer, writing | Category: Books, Celebrating Women, Poetry, 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. [...] March 24, 2008By Sharanya Manivannan THAT VIOLENCE against women rarely grabs any attention except for in the presence of gruesomeness, sensationalism, drama and tragedy is already known. But more disturbing by far than the fact that the murder of a teenage tourist in Goa last month has been making headlines precisely due to its cocktail of all the above elements [...] Tags: assault, crime, drugs, goa, Media, Morality, murder, Rape, scarlett keeling, sensationalism, sex, sexuality, tourism, violence, Violence Against women, women | Category: Morality, Motherhood, Rape, Sex and Sexuality, Violence Against women |
November 13, 2007By anita ratnam OVER THE YEARS, sex education has been debated either in the context of concerns about population control or AIDS prevention. Does education about sex and sexuality have to be perceived only within the confines of these two arenas? In the wake of the Central Government’s attempts to introduce sex education from Class VI onwards, the [...] September 07, 2007By Dilnavaz Bamboat THESE QUESTIONS go out to the ladies who have lived any part of their lives in India: Ever been sanitary napkin/ tampon shopping? Ever had your purchases wrapped up in a newspaper/ bag, “safe” from the eyes of the world? Now here’s my gnawing question: Why? Tags: menstruation, secrecy, sexuality, shame, women's bodies | Category: Sex and Sexuality, Society |
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