I Am Woman – 1
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 […]
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Open Secret Bigotry
Let me begin with saying that you are not a bigot. We like to imagine we have humanitarian values and value all life equally. And perhaps that is our intent
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Self immolations and the unconscious mind
Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally
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Story of a reformed sexual harasser
This story is about a few months old. Sat in my drafts, so some references may not be current. I had met a few friends recently. I spoke briefly about
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On free men and brutes
I wrote this post quite a few times, totally different each time, and finally decided to scrap it all to simply state my bottom line. There is a lot of
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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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Ideas to destroy the practice of Dowry in India
More needs to be done to reduce the risk of harm to women because of the practice of dowry. A proactive approach would go a long way toward preventing dowry related crimes.
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Dowry – The Number One Killer Of Women In India
Dowry is violence. There is a very good reason it is declared a crime. Essentially, dowry is a business deal around the marriage of two individuals. It is a widespread
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A conversation on feminism
I had a chat from a friend this morning. His wife is a staunch feminist, and he loves her to bits and gives her total freedom, but takes a dim
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