And She Died…
December 29, 2012And she died this morning. In a land far away. With her family near her. A girl whose only fault it was to think that she was safe in India. In the capital city of India, the superpower in making, a woman out…
Category: Gender Issues
Gender Issues -Mostly from India
DNA Column – No Country for women
December 24, 2012My column in today’s DNA In the vast ocean that is the World Wide Web, is a site called Maps4aid.com. It is a crowdsourcing project that meticulously documents violence against women and children in India. Spending a fraction of an hour on…
Sticks and stones, words & voices … #VAW
October 16, 2012I had written this piece for the #VAW month , it is cross posted on the VAW blog It was a long time ago. I was thirteen and we lived in South Bombay. Family friends had come over to stay with us….
DNA Column – Stand up! Vote out the misogynists
October 15, 2012My column in today’s DNA It is difficult being a woman and read the papers or watch the news and not pull out your hair in sheer frustration at the views being expressed on gender. On Gandhi Jayanti the Union Minister for…
DNA Column – the Ordeal doesn’t end with Molestation
July 23, 2012My column in today’s DNA On a slow news day, a girl in Guwahati got molested by a gang of men, who saw nothing wrong in groping, pinching, punching, stripping, feeling up and mauling the victim. In fact, they seemed to…
DNA Column – The Multiple Personality Disorder of the Middle class
June 25, 2012My column in today’s DNA Psychiatry identifies a condition called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), popularly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, in which two or more distinct identities or personalities compete with each other to take charge of the patient’s behaviour. If…
Maharashtra & Female Foeticide
May 10, 2012My column in today’s Lokmat The biggest open secret inIndia was her disappearing daughters. As prosperity has increased, family size has reduced, and advances in medical techniques have led to families choosing only to have a boy, by terminating pregnancy when a…
A wife like Sita
May 9, 2012When the judge says that a wife should be like Sita you can interpret it in many ways in the context of a modern marriage, and even a modern break up. the wife goes with her husband wherever he goes. The wife…
Salute the Men who fought for women’s rights …
April 2, 2012My column in today’s DNA “The intent of matrimony is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their families with prudence, and educate their children…
Google Doodle on Women’s Day
March 8, 2012And Google Doodle does it again. While it may look colourful, and symbolise Holi, it is in fact for the International Women’s Day. I suppose that this is not the time to write a long rant on why it would be much…