Posts Tagged ‘Gender Issues’

On the eve of Maha Shivratri a great victory was won. Devotees, backed by the state and other institutions, ensured that the right to pray the way you want to, in the language that you understand, in the manner that you choose , was upheld. 
In the face of a growing demand for their dismissal as [...]

…. both men and women seem to support the idea that women who ‘ask for it’ tend to ‘get it’. Unfortunately, no one seems to be able to define what “it” means and whether “it” means different things to men and women ( it does !)
HT , which broke the story and led with it [...]

….. was SR’s response to the HT story on women being molested outside JW Marriot on New Year’s eve. Women ought to know that it is unsafe for them…..Any other time of the year is ok for women, but on New Year’s… the men would be drunk and they are going to behave that way [...]

This from CNN-IBN:
Many refugees of Nandigram have confirmed that they had been brutally raped. Fear looms large in her eyes, the fear of CPI-M cadres. Forty-year-old Akreja Biwi doesn’t want to go back home anymore.
Last Sunday, as the CPI-M recaptured Nandigram, nearly 100 of the party cadres allegedly looted her house, raped her and her [...]

In the 60th year of being Independent and the 57th year of being a Republic, a different kind of May Day Story -
27-year-old Ratnamma, a garment factory worker, was forced to deliver a baby on the streets of Bangalore because her manager insisted on her filling out a leave application, despite the fact [...]

This from today’s DNA:
A 24-year-old undertrial in Orissa has married a teenage girl whom he allegedly raped and got pregnant a few years ago. The traditional tribal wedding between Padmini Murmu, 16, and Khaira Hansda was solemnised at the Circle Jail at Baripada, the district headquarters of Mayurbhanj, 250 km from the state capital [...]

"All men who love their wives hit them" said Mrs. R to me - a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. As I tried to pick up my jaw that had hit the floor, I argued that my father had never hit my mother …. Mrs.R sagely told me… "then he must [...]

Finished reading Vrinda Nabar’s excellent "Caste as Woman".

It looks at women in India not from the point of western feminist theories, but more in terms of looking at India’s own unique socio-cultural systems, which essentially serve to keep the woman as an uncomplaining victim to many ills. As she puts it:

"… in India, the discrimination [...]

if this had happened to a ethnic group, a religious group, or a caste or indeed a tribe - there would be pandemonium. But, it happens just to women - and therefore it is excused under a variety of heads from culture to religion to lack of education.
Ten million girls have been killed by their [...]

(warning: this post contains pictures that may offend the 'dignity', 'decency', and sensibility of some readers). Not Priyanka Vadera Gandhi, Not even Priyanka Chopra. But, Priyanka Bhotmange. Just a simple, ordinary girl called Priyanka who lived in a small little village called Khairlanji in the back of beyond in the state of Maharashtra. She studied [...]