'Mein Kampf' with Feminism
Are women today retrograding back to the societal ways of the Victorian era?
Marji, my role model
Read Makepeace’s entry for Women’s Web’s ‘My Favourite Female’ contest, where she writes about a female “fictional” character who inspired her to be herself and beyond the convention.
CWG breaking gender stereotypes…
Among the positive turn outs that the recent Common Wealth Games in New Delhi have surprised us with, what I’ve found most exhilaratingly encouraging are the laurels of the Indian sportswomen (…)
What does it mean to really help, make a change
A year ago My maid is an illiterate woman from Bihar, Muslim by religion, but with relatively fair IQ for her being and upbringing. She is single-handed bringing up her 5 kids and taken steps to ensure no more babies all by herself. In response to her act, the husband went absconding for good 2 [...]
Much talk about Hijab: Still a sign of oppression
It has been a while that I wanted to write about the much talked about tradition of wearing a Hijab or Burqa. The context was set even better when I saw this short Spanish film by Xavi Sala about Hijab in Europe and the discrimination young Muslim women face in a so-called “free” Europe. See [...]
Musings of a visitor
The river beckons me. It is a life force that attracts me and propels me downstream in its surging waters. Civilization crowds both its banks in all its grandeur and humanity traverses its banks in all its humility, overawed by the pull of the current. It is majestic, it is wide, and it is deep. [...]
