October 01, 2012By Dilnavaz Bamboat
In October, we kick off Violence Against Women (VAW) Awareness Month on the blogosphere. VAW Awareness Month began as a completely voluntary, yet cohesive online campaign in 2011, when a group of dedicated bloggers/volunteers decided to band together and raise awareness about this social anathema that isn’t going away in a hurry. […] October 07, 2010By Sharanya Manivannan IN CHENNAI, the term “moral police” is too often a literal one. Two relatively high-profile recent incidents cast the city’s police force in a frightening light, as enforcers of a deeply misogynistic worldview who go as far as to violate the law in order to uphold their principles. In the first case, a […] October 16, 2009By Tammy Ho Lai-Ming To Get Myself Some Water ~Translated from Ellen Lai’s ‘Grassland’, written in Chinese Our love toils about one period. On the bloody and lusty grassland You transform me into your self-pitied crippled rabbit. When you finally discard everything you have That is inside your permanently bulging equipment, You turn your back And ride towards […] 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? 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, […] 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 […] 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? In one of its latest acts of bigotry and intolerance, […] 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 […] 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 […] |
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