Harini Calamur's Writings
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 [tag]CPI-M[/tag] cadres. Forty-year-old Akreja Biwi doesn’t want to go back home anymore. Last Sunday, as the CPI-M recaptured…
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…
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…
"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…
Finished reading [tag]Vrinda Nabar[/tag]’s excellent "[tag]Caste as Woman[/tag]". It looks at women in India not from the point of western [tag]feminist[/tag] theories, but more in terms of looking at India’s own unique socio-cultural systems, which essentially serve to keep the woman as…
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…
(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, [tag]Priyanka Bhotmange[/tag]. Just a simple, ordinary girl called Priyanka who lived in a small little village called…
India Today’s reported survey (they aren’t online, if you don’t pay) – on male sexual trends in India (why is it that everytime that India Today & Outlook want a spike in circulation they put out an issue on sex) Nearly two-thirds…
…by our esteemed Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has held that unlike the charge of attempt to murder, the Indian Penal Code does not recognise the charge of attempt to rape. Rape is said to have been committed only if a man…
Tellychakkar profiling Parakh Madan – the lead of [tag]Star One[/tag]’s new show [tag]Saathi Re[/tag] , “I play a girl next door- simple, calm, mature and docile who belongs to a Gujarati family. She’s an ideal take-home bahu who respects her family. She…