Defending vegetarian donkeys…
DNA ran a headline today: BJP brays for Kapil Sibal’s blood. Brays? Isn’t that what a donkey does? It has been used to describe harsh, futile sounds, but to describe a […]
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Transcript: Globalizing Inequality by P. Sainath Part 4
Transcript of Globalizing Inequality – a lecture by P. Sainath, sponsored by the Center for Social and Environmental Justice of Washington State University, Vancouver. Video by pdxjustice Media Productions. Part
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A Hindu writes to Hindu Organizations against Slutwalk
The below letter was originally addressed to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for its threats against the Delhi Slutwalk. Now it is addressed to all Hindu entities opposing Slutwalk. Dear Whom-so-ever-it-may-concern,
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A Life in Clothes – Part 4 : My Terms
Earlier: A Life in Clothes part 1, part 2, part 3 While my first escape from home was an epic in insecurity, I had learned a lot from it. Most
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Police state and illegitimate citizens
We as a society seem to be getting more and more repressed and judgmental, even as the government seems to be making more and more rules to fix problems. Living
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Governments and sexuality
Governments the world over are obsessed with regulating the sexuality of their citizens. Without getting into the histories and cultures of other countries, in this article, I limit myself to
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I love their India
What is up with India? I don’t recognize the country we are turning into. Not any single thing, just many things. Seriously, in Mumbai – the economic freaking capital of
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Eunuchs, transgenders, Hijras, Kotis…..
The transgendered community is a world of its own, intersecting with the “normal” in a garish parody of revulsion and macabre fascination that leaves no room for them to be anything other than objects to project society’s prejudices on.
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