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October 16, 2009By Guest Contributor To Get Myself Some Water Our love toils about one period. Tags: poems about women, Poetry, poets, women | Category: Celebrating Women, Identity and Destination, Love, Marriage, Poetry, Sex and Sexuality, Women's Lives |
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 |
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 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 |
January 29, 2009By Guest Contributor We fear for lives of women in this state… is the Government listening? Is there a Government in this State at all? Or is it only a political party whose highest priority is its own regressive right wing agenda, which violates the responsibility of governance? Tags: Bangalore, Karnataka, Mangalore pub, women | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Justice, Morality, Politics, Violence Against women, Women's Lives |
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 29, 2007By Usha B N THERE IS A STORY about a Sufi saint who used to wander the city streets and people around him called him a madman. One day, he was wandering the streets near the palace on a donkey. He suddenly got off and walked up to a board in front of the palace. The board said: ‘This [...] October 07, 2007By Dilnavaz Bamboat FEMINISTS USUALLY get bad press. Who wants to listen to a bunch of whiny women who bitch and moan even when it’s not that time of the month? And those of us who do identify with the feminist cause find ourselves defending behaviors and battling misconceptions and stereotypes because we feel the need to make [...] September 25, 2007By Anindita Sengupta IN CONVERSATION with friends, one often comes across differing views about the state (or status) of women in India vis-a-vis other countries. These range from the slightly disturbing optimism of “the west has won its battles” to the even more disturbing “why should we complain; we don’t have it as bad as some others”. This [...] August 27, 2007By Anindita Sengupta IT’S A TIME of intense and rapid change in India. Women are stretching their wings, exploring new spaces and testing the boundaries of old ones. With more women working, traveling, living on their own or managing high-powered careers, new challenges have emerged. Some women are coping with increased independence or living alone. Others are trying [...] |
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