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Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
30.6.15

Divided, and ruling

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Kamal Haasan recently played martyr. It is fairly common for the arrogant and liars to play martyr. It is the prime ticket to a clean s...
4.4.15

Voices and Choices

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She was articulate, but helpless too. "My having a love child is a scandal, but X as a celebrity is considered bold," she said...
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12.11.14

Sterilisation or Sexism: The Opportunistic Battle for Primetime

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One did not realise this was about competition, that too of the superficial kind. The celebrated anchor moving on to the sterilisation de...
28.9.14

Fake Feminism and the Alamuddin-Clooney marriage

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A few months ago, somebody sent me a YouTube link to "the woman they say George Clooney is getting married to". Amal Alamuddin w...
15.9.14

The Cleavage Chiaroscuro

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What happens when a Bollywood actor decides to speak out against objectification? The reactions are simplistic and extreme. The Times o...
2.11.13

Saturday Snapshots

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A quick weekend roundup of what made news and what it means. The Tehreek-i-Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud has been killed in a drone a...
30.10.13

Ornamental messages: The Tanishq ad

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A measure of how 'backward' a society is to see how it portrays progressiveness. If you need to pat someone for what is considered n...
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15.7.13

A Mirage called Malala

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A Mirage called Malala : Another Daughter of the East?  by Farzana Versey, CounterPunch, July 15 Had Edward Snowden exposed the dirt of ...
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13.6.13

Murdering a suicide: Jiah, Depression and Misogyny

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Should a suicide case that has led to an arrest be decided in the media? Are lawyers permitted to discuss the possibility of a police cas...
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28.5.13

The sexual harassment of Mallika Sherawat

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Mallika at Cannes and with Obama. PR? It is unbelievable that a woman who is independent becomes an object of derision for saying...
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11.5.13

Sex can be 'unnatural'

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In August last year Geetika Sharma ended her life. In her suicide note, she blamed former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide an...
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2.3.13

Desire under the microchip

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Would you want your clothes to become transparent whenever you are aroused, instead of the usual signals? When innovative tech art e...
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24.12.12

Diary from Raisina Hill: The voice of a 17-year-old

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(This is a fictitious account that I would have written if I were young and at Delhi on this day)    I live in Delhi and have alrea...
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