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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Rights
In loving memory of Late Col AGJ Swittens (Joe) 4GR, an Indian POW (1971) in Pakistan
I came across the touching story of Col. Swittens when my friend forwarded it to me. Since then I found copies on some blogs, a forum or two and other
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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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Age, Sex, Consent
Replugging this old article with my views on the lack of recognition of distinctions between sex and crime in actions of governments and judiciary in the wake of yet another
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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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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Empowerment of locals first
Mumbai has a huge and growing migrant population. And Mumbai has conspicuous ‘sons of the soil’ insisting that priority in employment MUST go to locals. They have ransacked offices, issued
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Privatization of Water – money at what cost?
had originally written this article for Tehelka, but I don’t think they published it. If they did, let me know, and I can redirect this page there. Recently, the government
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