AamJanata – Intellectual Anarchy!

The Constitution is not a charter of servitude

Delhi Gang Rape

How about a NationalWalkout?

We failed as a society - not the first time We are ashamed of ourselves - damn right, we should be We will never forget - until the next time it happens again And we fail, we feel ashamed and we forget How about we try something different? How about we really show our elected govts how concerned ...

Suri
a year ago

Vidyut and Nisarga

Do parents really care about child safety or do they want to outsource caring for children?

Disclosure of bias: I am biased against mainstream schools as currently exist in India and think they do more harm than good. We need better schools and for reasons more than security. This is the second murder in a Ryan International School. Last year, in February, a child was found drowned in t...

Vidyut
2 years ago

swami-omji

Real News of India exposes Swami Om and BJP’s illegal election methods #Chilling

Real News of India interviews Swami Omji among a group of BJP supporters. Swami Om Ji is contesting as a Hindu Mahasabha candidate with symbol flute. What begins as a random interview of party volunteers takes on an ominous turn as the supporter claims to be a candidate of another party contestin...

Vidyut
5 years ago

Euphemisms of inhumanity

"Why don't you get a job?" she asked. "Well my child is severely disabled and needs care." I replied. A simple reply changed the direction of the conversation. "You really shouldn't call him disabled. He is special needs." She informed me, as though it was possible for the mother of a five year o...

Vidyut
5 years ago

Does our new rape law help women?

This is a response to Vrinda Grovers views on the new rape law as told to Priyadarshini Sen in the article "Look Before You Creep" published in Outlook Magazine. I want to state upfront that I have a deep respect for Vrinda Grover and her work for human rights, and the article merely shares my vi...

Vidyut
5 years ago

Percentage of time devoted to rural news on TV

A quick look at size of chargesheets

The Tarun Tejpal chargesheet attempting Guinness book records over what was basically a groping and rape under the new definition got me curious about the sizes of various chargesheets. This is mostly an experiment driven by curiosity. I thought the chargesheet had a lot of pages and compared it ...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Goa Police to file 2700 page chargesheet in sexual assault case against Tarun Tejpal

Breaking news being tweeted right now is that Goa police will be filing a 2700 page chargesheet against Tarun Tejpal for sexual assault. For a sense of proportion for those wondering how normal this is, the chargesheet against the Delhi Gang Rape (that gave birth to the law amendment that qualifi...

Vidyut
6 years ago

National Commission for Women Chief Mamta Sharma

National Commission for Women or political puppets?

Where is the National Commission of Women that was so critical of Somnath Bharti's raid in Khirki? The women supposedly assaulted in the raid, whom they were so concerned about who filed a complaint over being mistreated by the crowd have filed a far graver complaint. That of being entrapped and ...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Rape jokes sexist jokes and other inequality jokes

As the dialogue on gender inequality gets more strident and less nuanced, there are many holy cows and dirty pigs, where communication happens as though through a word parsing software. What is abuse and what isn't abused gets declared by the presence or absence of certain words and whether they ...

Vidyut
6 years ago