Posted by gargi on 30 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Caste, India, Society
Dr.Ambedkar in Annihilation of Caste:
It is a pity that Caste even today has its defenders. The defences are many. It is defended on the ground that the Caste System is but another name for division of labour and if division of labour is a necessary feature of every civilized society then it is argued that [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Gender Issues, India, Society
Two stories on further education.
One is about a 12th standard topper who quits formal education.
…Urvi Pithadia, 17, has been forced to discontinue her studies just a week after joining junior college. Nobody there volunteered to help the wheelchair-bound girl in and out of classrooms and elevators.
Urvi is suffering from muscular dystrophia, a genetic disorder which [...]
Posted by gargi on 03 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: India, Politics
This from the Economic Times Entertainment News
Making his debut in films, Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh will star in a Bengali movie, which also stars close family friend and Bollywood actress Jaya Bachchan.
Singh will play the role of a politician in the film titled "Sesh Sanghat" (last conflict). [...]
Posted by gargi on 10 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: India, Passing On, Society
The last of the Gandhians passed away today… Baba Amte, who brought so much hope, not just to the communities that he worked with… but to all others who saw his work and got inspired.
Today as I read the obituaries, there is this tremendous feeling of losing someone very close… the sense of being bereaved… [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: India, Society
The Palmist, Mumbai
As the economy booms, and education booms, and other influences bounce into India, one would think that stuff like palmistry would take a back seat….. but no…. From the K serials, to people adding extra alphabets to their names, to vastu consultants for TV shows, and general belief in magic yantras, and [...]
Posted by gargi on 06 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Gender Issues, India, Society
…. 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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 03 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Gender Issues, India, Society
….. 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 [...]
Posted by gargi on 04 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Caste, India, Society
This from the DNA:
An enterprising NRI doctor from East Godavari district has come up with a novel idea of an all purpose and inclusive housing colony for members of the Brahmin community near Hyderabad.
Resurrecting the traditional and conservationist ambience of the Agraharam from the Brahmin predominant East Godavari district, the colony will be spread over [...]
Posted by gargi on 01 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: India, Society
I stumbled across this from Lysander Spooner :
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.
Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice [...]
Posted by gargi on 24 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., India
…. is a term my mother often uses to describe me and my friends — both male and female. Sometimes my dad says that i who was so focused and blinkered when I was twenty possilby regressed into my teens. My grandmother was zapped when she asked me recently “When are you going to [...]
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