AamJanata – Intellectual Anarchy!

The Constitution is not a charter of servitude

Violence against women

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

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

Gender seggregation

Gender Ghetto Politics

What really gets my goat these days is the bull in china shop approach to women's rights, which has a male dominated state and society trying to fix everything (sexual assault) - for women. I am a woman and I agree that there is vast gender inequality in India. I believe that women need to be emp...

Vidyut
5 years ago

Percentage of time devoted to rural news on TV

Two stories of rape justice

Two men noted for feminist liberal attitudes, in positions of authority, leading organizations with activities and objectives not pleasing several kinds of rogue elements. Two staunch feminist victims who had unhesitatingly raised their voice against rape and rights of rape victims, with knowledg...

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

tehelka-case

Two important questions about the chargesheet against Tarun Tejpal

The 12 volume chargesheet against Tarun Tejpal seems to be a case of piling up enough trees to obfuscate the woods. I have not read the chargesheet and am going by media reports, which is why it took me so much time to ask - I had to be certain. I would be happy to be proved wrong, but these ques...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Debunking Men’s Rights Activists claims

There is no doubt every law can be misused, particularly in a state where enforcement is haphazard at best. At the same time, the continued disinformation campaign by the supposed "Men's Rights Activists" (a false term, explained later) that the 498a is mainly a tool to victimize men is false, fr...

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