Posts Tagged ‘Women’

Coca Cola meets kumkum - only in India…..
The red powder on the plate is kumkum - a powder that is traditionally a symbol of fertility. Married women in many parts of India use kumkum either as a round on their forehead or in the parting of their hair. traditionally,it is not worn by unmarried girls [...]

Three very different articles related to women - which i kind of found amusing.
The first is by Maureen Dowd in the NYT , where she quotes a study conducted by 2 psychologists & 2 economists on pre - mating habits of human beings…and they found:
…intelligence ratings were more than twice as important in predicting women’s [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

…. and seen to be done. Manu Sharma is guilty of Jessica Lall’s Murder. There were a flurry of SMS’s last night - mostly from women friends - and for all of us, at some level, it had become personal. It was almost as though, in India, a man could kill a woman and [...]

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 [...]

I am ambivalent about the death penalty. I belive that it should exist on the statute books but used very sparingly, by the book, following the rule of law etal. But this is the rational me. When i read articles like this, somehow the rational me takes a back seat and something much [...]

I think that the Government has hit the nail on the head in asking religious leaders to intercede in stemming female foeticide.
The union ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has written to Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mata Amritanandmayi, Dinkar, Asaram Bapu and even popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev to spearhead a campaign to save the [...]

Of all the forms of State so far, the modern Republic is the only one based on the consent of civil society. We are all supposedly participants in the state. And we abbrogate a lot of our responsibilities vis-a-vis the society we live in to the state. So for us to continue believing in this [...]

The Jessica Lal Case is yet one more where the accused have been given more ‘importance’ than the victim. An excellent panel of defence lawyers managed to get continuance after continuance - and in the 7 odd year that passed memories faded, witnesses recanted, police fudged procedure and the accused walked. Today after almost [...]