AamJanata – Intellectual Anarchy!

The Constitution is not a charter of servitude

Sexual misconduct

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

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

freedom of speech quote

The politics of human rights

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ Anatole France Rights, like laws are determined by the powerful to address problems they face or allow actions they prefer and apply "equally" to all. These...

Vidyut
5 years ago

International Women’s day wishes

Logged in to Twitter this morning to see a flood of wishes for a happy women's day. I replied "Thank you. For today and every day." which people found witty. Actually it wasn't so much witty, as it was a statement of intent. Awareness for women's rights - at least in public is growing by leaps an...

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

Woman kills neighbour who tried to rape her 5-year-old daughter

A woman in Jharkhand has killed her neighbour for trying to rape her five year old daughter. The woman was out of her home for work when the neighbour misbehaved with her daughter. When she returned, her daughter told her. In a fit of rage, she bludgeoned the man to death. While it isn't the pret...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Anger with elite misusers of protections to women

Thoughtless protections and rabid lawmaking by our government have brought us to this point where the laws to protect women are a joke. We are just blindly tweaking. A court accepting a rape victim's statement has now become everybody and his cousin and media having to accept victim's statement a...

Vidyut
6 years ago

birbhum gang rape courtyard

Birbhum tribal gang rape is a mirror of Indian progress

On the night of 20th January 2013, a young tribal woman was gang raped on the orders of a shalishi sabha (kangaroo court) led by Bolai Murdy, the Morol (tribal village head) a remote Santhal tribe village in the Labhpur police station area, in West Bengal as a punishment for having an affair with...

Vidyut
6 years ago