Marriage is not a license to rape
5 May 2015
It’s marvelous how a woman’s life can be clearly demarcated by classifying it within the ambits of before marriage and after marriage. Uncannily, female existence revolves around this [...]
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The tragedy of an Indian farmer
24 April 2015
Recently I was having a conversation with one of my relatives and we both came to a state of agreement about the weather Gods being unkind. All was well until [...]
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Through the hidden lens
18 April 2015
A bright, pleasant day calls for a little recreation and thanks to the spurt in growth of shopping malls with due credit to consumerism, one usually flocks to these centres [...]
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A Woman’s Choice
4 April 2015
What happens when the daily oppression faced by an ordinary woman is made public? How does the society react when the hitherto neglected and deemed insignificant issues about women are [...]
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Adieu Article 66A of IT Act
28 March 2015
How often do you speak your mind and conclude with ‘No offence.’ Now whether we use this as a scapegoat or with true intentions, who knows? But according to Article 66 [...]
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I don’t like it. Let’s ban it!
23 March 2015
I often wonder what comes out of capturing certain events in the past and putting it onto a screen for public viewing. Are we just reliving the trauma of a [...]
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Why kill the one who gives birth to us?
11 March 2015
‘Women empowerment’. ‘Safety for women’. ‘Respect women’. ‘Gender equality’. ‘Protect women’. ‘Beti bachao, beti padhao’. In tumultuous times as now, these phrases are constantly thrown at us to pacify the [...]
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Justice – An unheard plea
22 February 2015
‘WE WANT JUSTICE’. In every corner of every street of every town of every state is a cry for justice. Certainly, justice is on high demand. Is it followed by [...]
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Exposing the unfairness in fairness ads
13 February 2015
How often have you switched on your television set to find a fairness cream commercial playing? Almost every cosmetic product offers the guarantee or possibility to its users of growing [...]
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Sex- Can we talk about it now?
8 February 2015
How did we come to life? By this asking this question I am not alluding to the concept of life in its philosophical understanding but to a more scientific, rather [...]
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