Harini Calamur's Writings
Gender Issues -Mostly from India
#WomenBoycottTwitter – what makes otherwise easy going women to call for a boycott? That some twitter users can be toxic, is a given. That as a woman you face abuse for being a woman, in addition to being a woman and having…
Benaras Hindu University – BHU – has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Female students were mauled inside the campus (before 7 pm) , by men riding bikes (presumably from outside the campus); According to the students, a first…
i write for the @dna on this landmark judgement, and the way ahead source : here This Morning’s much anticipated news was the Supreme Court ruling on Instant Triple Talaq, and hopes that the esteemed bench would uphold the rights of…
My mother would tell me, as a kid, the women and girls would get the second or third filter coffee decoction . The men and the boys would get the first decoction. Similarly with curds – the men would get the thick curds, the…
When I returned to India, in 1994 from the United Kingdom, i was very aware of the fact that there was a very thick glass ceiling in Britain. Almost shatterproof glass. This is despite having Margret Thatcher, and the Queen in charge…
My twitter TL bubbles over with Kangana Ranaut and Karan Johar ping pong. She said, he said, she said, columnists said, anchors said. Lots of people with lots of views. Honestly, i couldn’t be bothered, except to say one thing. If you…
I wrote this for She the People, earlier this week Many years ago, I read Margaret Atwood’s, dystopian novel, Handmaid’s Tale. Set around a plausible tomorrow, it looks at a world where fertility has plummeted, and there are a special category of…
Speaking to The Indian Express, Maneka said, “Paternity leave can be considered only if, once the woman goes back to work after her 26 weeks of leave, we find that men are availing their sick leave for a month to take care…
🙂 world class athletes reduced to “hotties”. And, i don’t see a single hot male here….. I am yet to make up my mind whether it is sexist towards women (by portraying them as mere ‘hotties’) or discriminatory towards men ((not…
This is the front page of the Mumbai Mirror. What Lakshmi, who represented india in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, actually said “Sindhu has what i didn’t have back then – my husband as a coach” I know readership is an issue. I know clicks…