Female Genital Mutiliation
“Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The […]
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Prostitution, sex trafficking, sexual slavery and personal autonomy
A pro-choice response to an article Taslima Nasreen wrote calling for the abolishment of prostitution: Sex Slavery Must be Abolished While Taslima Nasreen and I both share a concern for
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Population control through adoption – by Venkat Ramakrishnan
A guest article by Venkat Ramakrishnan A lot of emphasis has been put in the media today towards many things that are not significant, or at least not even remotely linked
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Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month
Children are the most unrepresented and powerless minorities anywhere. And a large many fall prey to the sexual appetites of adults around them. Not knowing whether what is happening with
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Quit Nuclear Power – Part 2: Optimizing use of existing electricity production
The Central Electricity Authority issues an annual report describing the electricity situation of the country. The latest available information is the monthly power supply report for February 2012, which says
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Get out of the dark ages – Quit Nuclear Power – Part 1: The Cost
Is it time for India to Quit Nuclear Power? Once, US stunned the world with the power of nuclear bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed, and a messy war abruptly
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Census Data Houselisting and Housing
Number of Census Houses Data Type Houselist Item Total No Rural No Urban No Total % Rural % Urban % Census Houses Total number of census houses 330,835,767 220,695,914 110,139,853
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Do the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong? – Media disinformation in action at FirstPost
Recently, FirstPost, which is a kind of news media thing published an article titled “Why the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong” which ought to have been an informative thing
Debunking the “Misuse of Dowry Act” misogynist bandwagon
There is this group of men and women on the internet who seem to have a deep and abiding contempt for the Section 498A of the IPC – the Dowry
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