Plugins for the Education System
Almost every problem you read about, you hear that the education system needs to be changed for a better world. It is a different matter that I think it should […]
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Bullying
Jarawa re wah re wah!
So a video went viral. Guardian had published a video shot by a tourist where a policeman (off camera) is bullying the local tribal women to dance and even doing
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Unfreedoming Speech
Dear Mr. Sibal Let me begin with saying that not even my mother had ever made such a comprehensive effort to remove from my sight everything that would offend me.
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Slutwalks and the state
The Mumbai Slutwalk had died when the police required us to provide an undertaking on the letterhead of an NGO with details of the walk. We could have falsified it,
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The Dark Side of Twitter
Twitter is well appreciated for the unprecedented freedom of interaction it provides, while at the same time allowing for security. Also, being directly able to hear candid talk of public
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26/11 and what it says about us
After 26/11 we had many intentions about improved functioning. A week or so ago, a man murdered his ex-wife INSIDE a women’s police station and escaped. A Hindustan Times article quotes
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Dynamics of power
Some observations that I have seen with power and people in any group. Attention is power. If you forget this, you can’t understand the rest of this page. Everybody wants
Eve Teasing under Civil Law
This article is second in a part of a three article series on Eve Teasing by Fazal Ahmad. The first part outlined the description and impact of eve teasing. This
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On victims and healing
We are all victims of something or the other. We all have the same processes of healing. We get hurt, we find our space, we cope, we re-engage with the
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