Journeywoman: Gender and Commuting in Urban India
Off peak-hour this morning, it took me a solid two hours to reach Theatre Road from Dunlop. Google maps — which has a laughably naive Western attitude to city-commuting, bless it — says it should’ve...
View ArticleUS 2012: Progress, Elections and India
I only just noticed it today, but one of my friends posted this on Facebook right after the election was declared in Obama’s favour this last week. It has too rosy a view of the Democrats and their...
View ArticleThe Art of Hatred
My mother informed me over tea this morning that Amartya Sen, speaking at IIT Bombay, has said that for improved performance as a nation, India needs to change the very core of its attitude towards...
View Article‘Servants Can’t Rape’
Or so the sentiment appears to me. My FB buddy Siddharthya posted this tweet from Madhu Purnima Kishwar, who is the director of the Indic Studies Project, housed in the Centre for the Study of...
View ArticleFor Justice, Avoid Law Enforcement
This story was shared on my FB this afternoon: Goan locals assault abductors and would-be gang-rapists of minor schoolgirl, and then assault policemen who try to protect the rapists. Well done Colva!...
View ArticleStunning Dino-Bird Fighting Off T-Rex
Marriage really does a number on you. Suddenly, you find you’re (a) fully briefed on Arsenal’s strengths, weaknesses, schedule and scorecard, (b) eating more grilled meat and salads than comforting...
View ArticleGirly Power in Book Week Scotland 2013 Quiz
This quiz has been doing the rounds on my social media circles the last few days – a book personality test released for Book Week Scotland, 2013 (take it here). The root may or may not be true – I’ve...
View ArticleTalkin’ About the Stare
This evening, calmly withering looks from a friend and me completely quelled a man staring rather invasively at her. I don’t like the idea of legally policing stares, because that way lies subjectivity...
View ArticleStench of the Uniform, #2
This is a remembrance special for Human Rights Day 2013, to show how safe and happy we are in the world’s largest democracy. ***** Right, so I promised victims of similar violence I’d write about my...
View ArticleGenius Limericks for “Young Ladies”
My friend Monidipa has written five brilliant limericks illustrating and protesting the state of women in general and queer women in particular after the Supreme Court of India decided last week to...
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