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 November 14, 2013By Ketaki Chowkhani Some educational institutions in India follow a policy of gender equality, but in practice there exist subtle forms of gender power relations and a disciplining of the female body. Despite the fact that boys and girls study together, play together, have access to the same resources, gender socialisation plays a role in ways in which […] November 06, 2013By Dilnavaz Bamboat
New Perspectives on Sexual Offenses in India: Examining Laws and Public Discourse Date and time: Monday, November 11, 2013; 6.30 pm to 8 pm. Venue: Wiegan Room, Arts & Sciences Building, Santa Clara University, California About the event and lecturer:
[…] 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. […] 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 […] May 25, 2010By Oishik Sircar HERE’S A PART IMAGINARY, part real email thread of conversations among faculty members at an elite law university in India. Two developments are being discussed simultaneously – one is a weekly cricket match, and the second is the establishment of a women-only Women’s Law Society. The names of participants in the conversation have been […] June 15, 2009By Amodini Sharma INDIA IS A populous country, and I’m pretty sure the citizens of India have something to do with it. I don’t think the storks are delivering all those babies, or that they are gifts of the Gods a la Kunti. Thus the move to squash teaching of basic sex education in schools is quite surprising. […] 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 […] February 04, 2008By Dilnavaz Bamboat MY MOTHER IS a cost accountant. Only the third woman in all of India to get a certificate of practice when she received one, and the first in the Western India zone. She gave her last costing exam while working full time at the age of 28 and then finally deigned to marry my father, […] |
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