A lot of things must have happened last year that made every feminist bone in my body want to yell. After all, starting Sa, was a response to the several times I had come home and ranted about all that was anti-feminist about life. So, here’s the list. Do feel free to suggest any incidents [...]
Archive for December, 2008
The Year in Recap
Posted in Women and the Media, Women and the society, tagged 2008, abortion, Domestic Abuse, feminism, Harassment, Pornography, Rape, Women India on December 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chastity’s mutilated daughters
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the society, tagged Africa, female genital mutilation, UNIFEM, Violence against Women, WHO, women violence on December 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Among the privileges of having a feminist and a doctor for a mother is that one grows up, not merely hearing of the “big bad world” where the wolf would eat up one’s grandmother, but fully prepared for it, and shaken down, corners rubbed, ready to meet with equanimity the world’s imperfections and one’s own. I [...]
Stigma
Posted in Women and Health, tagged sex work, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, STD, stigma, Women Health on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was a student at the government general hospital at Chennai, I found many things about the hospital quite mysterious, intriguing and revealing. It was an old establishment, standing across central station since the British moved it to that location after the Anglo-French wars in the eighteenth century. Ever since it has grown around [...]
Subhadraharanam – Part II
Posted in Fiction, tagged Adapted story, Arjuna, Bharatanatyam, Feminist Fiction, Fiction, Mahabharata, Subhadra on December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In part one ‘He is a playboy’, he had said, shaking his head. ‘Such genius but such vice! Too many women. He lives his life on the edge’. ‘Poor Arjun’, Krishna observed. ‘He did not take that failed love affair lightly’. Sympathy was like a weed. It could grow through the tiniest of cracks on [...]
Asking for it
Posted in Women and the society, tagged asking for it, feminism, Foreign Tourist, India tourism, male insecurity, sexual harrassment on December 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, in an excellent article entitled, “The story of Draupadi’s disrobing” quotes a female foreign tourist in India: “The cruelty is unimaginable… (you may have) become a modern consumer, part of the global market and so on, but your social attitudes have not progressed beyond the eighteenth century. Women are no more than [...]
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