No Country for Women – That’s Bollywood!
By Renu Pokharna Much like the Indian government with its five-year plans, I have a five-year cycle, too, when it comes to Indian cinema: Every five years, something happens that reinvigorates my eternal frustration with Bollywood. Five years ago it was over too many rip-offs: “Black” from “The Miracle Worker,” “Koi Mil Gaya” from “E.T: [...]
Immigration and Detention: Women’s Human Rights Across Borders
As she went into labor Juana Villegas was shackled to her hospital bed. Living in Tennessee, she gave birth while in custody. She had been pulled over while driving and taken to jail when the officer discovered that she did not have a valid drivers license as was undocumented. She went to prison, where she [...]
Don’t Call Me, ‘Eve’
As the Delhi run of the video van comes to a close, in which the Bell Bajao campaign addressed street sexual harassment among other forms of grave violence against women, Eesha Pandit looks at just how widespread and harmful the “mere” act of “eve teasing” is.
When it happened to me…
No, today was not the first time I was ever insulted by a man in public. It was the first time though I ever bumped someone’s car unintentionally and unfortunately in the last five years that I’ve been driving on the angry male dominated Delhi roads, the first time when someone made me feel sorry [...]
We exist. Therefore, we share.
This week was Social Media Day, celebrating the evolution of internet most significantly brought about by the revolutionary changes that social media has made in our personal and professional lives. We asked our fans on Facebook & Twitter to share stories of how social media has made a difference in their lives and in particular [...]
Damsel in Dress or Distress
After studying English literature for 3 years in Delhi University, and staying with people like Saumya Aneja, I had become a loyal preacher of Feminism and Women Liberation. The books I read, the lectures I attended, the teachers I heard and all the brainstorming sessions had all made me look beyond the beliefs which saw [...]
Women: the weaker sex, as they call it!
Here’s another day in office. After checking my Outlook mails, I opened the Times of India site, as I always did. We, the slaves of technology, hardly get time to grab a newspaper and even skim through it. So we surrender ourselves to the internet, for a daily update on what’s happening around the world. [...]
I adjust but not fight…???
I was walking down the alley. It was almost past 10 in the night. But not to worry, this is my locality. “Was I asssuring my own self?” I looked back and forth, noone. I continued to walk. A sudden burst of light, I looked up,blinded for a moment. The sound of a bike, I [...]
Mahila Hakkina Mela: The Change Theory
The mrudangam played the beats in perfect rhythm and the rain clouds gathered their might to pour over our Mahila Hakkina Mela towards the end of the day. The journey between Bangalore and Gubbi (where the mela was held) was long and it took us a daily commute of over 4 hours each day to [...]
Breakthrough presents ”Mahila Hakkina Mela”
Along with Aware Trust, Breakthrough launches a Naari Adaalath for fast tracking cases on Domestic Violence Breakthrough’s Bell Bajao! Campaign against domestic violence will take a step ahead with the formation of a Naari Adaalath in Tumkur on the 13th of May, 2011. This initiative came in partnership with Aware Trust.The daylong “Mahila Hakkina Mela” [...]
