2 commentsAMAR RAO IS an intrepid Silicon Valley entrepreneur, whose specialty is the high technology sector. He currently heads marketing, sales, and business development for a start-up company. Additionally, he is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter head of Pratham USA, the American arm of the Indian education […]
January 23, 2014By Dilnavaz Bamboat April 06, 2013By Anindita Sengupta TARSHI (Talking about Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) is a Delhi-based NGO that works on sexuality with an affirmative and rights-based approach. It runs an infoline on topics related to sexual and reproductive health, HIV, contraceptive choices, sexual and gender identities, violence, safety and pleasure. The organisation is also involved in training, advocacy and research. […] 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. The first […] May 30, 2010By Aparna Singh GOOD GIRLS DON’T TALK to Boys. And vice versa, although an exception may be made for good boys who are simply lured by bad girls. Recently, I came across this new item that talked about a young girl in a Chennai engineering college who killed herself because she was ticked off for talking to […] March 20, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat AT THE PRESCHOOL that I run (where I also teach), there’s a certain action song we sing that goes like this: Cook like mummy, Yum, yum, yum, (repeat thrice) Let’s have fun together! Drive like daddy, Knit like grandma, Cough like grandpa…. …and by the time we come to “Be […] December 20, 2007By Sridala Swami SEVEN YEARS AGO, I attended a wedding reception that I will never forget. A few months previously, I had just had a baby and this wedding was one of the first occasions when I was going out with the new arrival. It was quite traumatic for me: all I wanted to do was meet friends […] September 18, 2007By Anasuya Sengupta A WELL-KNOWN TV news channel in English had a Women’s Day special recently, asking the question ‘Do we still need feminism?’ As someone who has worked with the Karnataka police for the past few years on issues of violence against women and children (and is a feminist), I found it startling and disturbing, that […] |
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