Let me get this straight, dear CBI. You are saying a woman who suspected that her husband was involved with another woman knew a rent-a-sharpshooter? And had 3 lakh rupees to give him without arousing suspicion? And such a simple case flabbergasted everybody and his cousin for over half a year? And the woman’s husband [...]
Censorship is a continuous thing. It isn’t something you can (or would want to) eradicate completely. A mind that stops at nothing only rambles meaninglessly with every stray thought. At the same time, censorship becoming rampant puts people into increasingly narrow tunnels of what is allowed. Where the awareness of the world itself shrinks and [...]
As the fairy tale goes, First lady of Mumbai, Tina had always wanted to have a yacht. Husband Anil Ambani got her a dream-boat. A 400 crore rupee one! Would be nice, if true. But you know how newspapers exaggerate. Here’s a quote: Tian was built in Genoa, Italy. It is about 34 metres long and [...]
I Am Woman Part 1 || Part 2 by Hannah Imogen Jones Continued from Part 1 Some months later I received a telephone call from a friend of mine. She was sobbing her heart out, crying so much she could hardly speak and said that she was coming over to my house because she needed to talk. What [...]
I Am Woman Part 1 || Part 2 by Hanna Imogen Jones Many moons ago I made an unsolicited offer to the wonderful woman @Vidyut that I write a guest blog post about feminism. Since making that offer, my mind has, many times, been whirling with thoughts of “What to write?”, “Where do I start?” The [...]
So, you have crores, but not enough crores. You want to buy a yatch. Can afford it, but would like to save some money. Say a FERRATTI 55 series yacht. It costs Rs 12 crore plus 35 % customs import duty and 3 % other state levies. The actual cost in India would be Rs [...]
Here are things I need done. Kindly do the needful. Quit aping the west on the dehumanization, and instead copy the concept of safe houses. You can’t do shit for women unless you can offer those in trouble a safe place to stay. Have special courts for women’s rights abuse. Setting them up will be [...]
It is not new that sexual harassment of women is at an all time high. It is also not new that people in power are simply not interested in doing anything about this. Considering that they are busy blaming women for the crimes happening against them, and considering that leaders are sharing porn clips among [...]
Making it jazzy for those who find it dreary news too depressing. Here are headlines from February alone of reports of violence against women at Maps4Aid website. Note that these are a small fraction of what’s happening. To land up in the list: Out of all crimes that happened, a certain number got reported to [...]
For once, it is a treasure to read the wave of euphoria sweeping through the tweets of the Baloch people. After six decades of cries for help going into some inexplicable void, it is a moment of recognition. US Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher, who first chaired a US Congressional hearing on Balochistan, has now introduced [...]