September 26, 2010

Curiouser and Curiouser

 

EXCEPT, I DON’T quite feel like Alice in Wonderland. Absurd would be a more appropriate term to describe this recent development that requires the family of a deceased Zoroastrian (Parsi/Irani) woman married to a non-Zoroastrian to file an affidavit stating she was a practicing Zoroastrian all her life in […]

September 23, 2010

Two Poems

nola

three floors above the street, Nola sits naked on a bench with winter that coos into her ears like rain

he mixes colours, a tinge of blush in his cheeks, to paint poinsettias –

I can only write of the artist whispering nothing but conscience into the brush

but Nola will still sit […]

September 22, 2010

UNFPA Laadli Media Awards: Call for entries

POPULATION FIRST and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have invited entries for the third UNFPA – Laadli Media awards for Gender Sensitivity(ULMAGS) for the Southern Region for 2010-2011.

The award has been instituted to acknowledge, highlight and celebrate the commendable efforts undertaken by various media to support gender-just perspectives from the field of advertising, print […]

September 13, 2010

A Closer Look: Q2P by Paromita Vohra

“TO PEE OR NOT TO PEE, that is the question.” Hamlet would have found this a more pressing concern if he was a woman living in 21st century India. This is what Paromita Vohra’s incisive look at the national state of public lavatories in Q2P brings home. The film charts a map through the toilets […]

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