First published on Firstpost. All my previous Firstpost articles here. In the United States, January is the month of Cervical Cancer Awareness. Countrywide efforts are made to raise awareness about the disease which affects 13,000 American women each year. In comparison, approximately 365.71 million Indian women above 15 years of age, are at risk of … Continue reading Should RSS Decide Whether or Not To Spend Resources On Cervical Cancer Vaccine?
Today's Indian Express Newspaper's biggest headline was "Economics with Politics" meaning that BJP's Budget 2018 is more a political strategy with eye on the forth coming general election. BJP has learned a lesson from Gujarat elections, a considerable blow to it's solid structure due to which it lost quite a few seats to Congress, that … Continue reading Budget 2018 and Women: Liberalism And Secularism For Women’s Rights
First some Data: Mere 6% of the unaccounted black money is in cash, rest is in gold, shares, real estate, overseas banks. Mere 50% of Indians have bank accounts. It was mere 35% till 2011, increased to 53% by 2014 (http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/175-million-new-bank-ac-in-india-in-three-years-world-bank/article7109166.ece) Per official government records a mere 25 crore Jan Dhan yojna accounts opened so … Continue reading Demonetisation: Cost Benefit Analysis, Life Death Analysis
The amount of efforts right wing troll are putting in to 1) Intimidate me 2) Question the credibility of my entire identity and opinion, I wonder is it even worth it? Have I really done something so significant that BJP is so rattled? I woke up today to see they have spread another blatant lie … Continue reading BJP Trolls Pull Out 8 yr Old Tweet To Shed Fake Tears For Mayawati
My Facebook post on 14th January Now regarding this Jallikattu ban, I don't care if it's your tradition religion sport or whatever, you just need to tone down your aggressive demands for this hypermasculine violent culture in which women have absolutely no participation. Each and every image of Jallikattu I have ever seen is about … Continue reading Important Readings on The Jallikattu Ban
Hello people. A confession, the staying off Facebook / Twitter didn't really work. Social media platforms are no longer just places to share your thoughts but also to seek information and exchange ideas. This bit was missing when we first started blogging. Back then it was only about sharing. So that's a learning from this experiment. … Continue reading The News Sucks And There’s a Femicide in Guatamela
We have metered billing for water, electricity, we pay phone bills by calls/hours. Imagine for all these things you had algorithm based random billing thrown at you.
Marriage is an institution to control private property and women's sexuality. There is no great value in trying to preserve it. As long as it works, it should be fine, if it doesn't work, move on.
Hyper sexualized images of women in Bollywood item numbers strip them off their identity and reduce them to object of sexual gratification. The image of ‘Bharat Mata’ does exactly the same for the nationalist or patriotic gratification of its citizens.
A sacred Indian marriage is one where a young girl, who have been always kept segregated from men and taught “good girls don’t talk to boys,” is suddenly pushed inside a room with a stranger who is allowed to rape her because he married her
Global porn industry is worth $97 Billion. It can be safely assumed that many women derive economic independence and sexual agency from this industry. It is absolutely ridiculous to presume that all such women need saving by self-righteous men.
Today I find a deep emotional and personal connect with Arvind Kejriwal and therefore I stand with him. I have been through this exact kind of situation in my life and have faced the same allegations that Kejriwal is being charged with. I had once started a business start up with a great idea and … Continue reading Why I still stand by Arvind Kejriwal and have hope from Aam Aadmi Party
This is also a time for India to learn a lesson. #PakSchoolSiege is a reminder of what happens when religion fucks up th mind. Stop all religious propaganda including #Hindutva. We don't need #IslamicState or #HinduRashtra. We Need Secular nation. All religious extremists dangerous: Hindu/Muslim/Christians. The lesson is to control religious forces, uphold the secularism guaranteed in the Constitution
The stories and videos turning the Rothak sisters who fought back in the bus are quite hilarious shows...! Men in Haryana are now scared to go to college because of two girls...Wow! People of Haryana did a great job of uniting against girl power, how could they have risked their son's future by allowing some … Continue reading People of Haryana stand united against girl power
Indian Prime Minister recently claimed that in ancient times there must have been a plastic surgeon who fixed elephant head on human body and thus Lord Ganesha was created. By that logic, all such hybrid creatures worshiped as Gods in various other civilizations like Greek, Roman and Egyptian are also results of plastic surgeries. Does that mean all civilizations had equally advanced technology? Or did they come to India to get surgeries done?
A journalist called asking if Dr. T is in office. I said, “no he is traveling, would be available only by 16th.” “Oh, but I wanted to ask him if he has Kailash Satyarthi’s number.” I didn’t get the name at first go. “Kailash who?” I asked. “Kailash Satyarthi,” he replied. “Is he someone known … Continue reading Kailash Satyarthi didn’t blow his own trumpet that’s why media doesn’t know him
News is in that NDA govt is going to dilute the environment rules for projects and in another news, foreign aided NGOs are being labelled as anti development. At one hand govt is likely to flout environment laws to promote industry and on the other hand they are likely to silence any protests by civil societies. What would be the impact of these two news read together on the India's environment?
what is wrong in revealing real identity? And this question is not to media or public but the survivor herself, or the family members in case she is no more. Why do we hide our face and identity in shame in case of rape? We don’t hide in shame in case of murder, theft, robbery, cheating. Then why in case of rape? Shashi Tharoor was right in his tweet where he questioned, “what interest is served by hiding the name?” Really ever wondered what interest? Whose interest?
This morning when I woke up to the news of her death, suddenly I realized all my thoughts had stopped at me. I could be her, I could be dead. One evening I was there, and then I was dead, because I was a woman, because some men decided to have sex with me by force, because...whatever, point is I am dead. So before my soul rests in peace, which I doubt is going to be anytime soon, let me ask a few questions to myself, and to all you girls out there
I used to earlier vehemently protest every time my male friends made fun of women driving. There were always these popular sexist jokes on how women cannot drive and I always hated them. My argument have been, if women were bad drivers, how come we never hear a woman doing rash driving or drunk driving … Continue reading Drunk driving accident by a woman: changing face of urban Indian women?
Pause for a while, take a moment, spend it in mourning for all that is dead, dying and will die. Death of the faith in justice system, of women's rights, of the many helpless innocents killed at work or leisure...So many death and so many killers walking free. --- All 6 accused in the Prof … Continue reading Prof Sabharwal’s attackers set free, women made to go through virginity test and more news
Writing this in hurry, couldn't have waited. History have been created today in India, this morning Delhi High Court gave its judgment on the petition filed by Naz Foundation challenging the constitutionality of Section 377 of IPC which criminalizes all acts of oral and anal sex between individuals irrespective of age and consent. High Court … Continue reading History is created today, Delhi High Court rules being Gay is no longer a crime in India
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ascertain the ground reality of the LTTE v. SL Army situation in the Northern part of Sri Lanka. The truth is hard to find and even harder it is to believe what they claim to be true. While the Sri Lankan government claims they have stopped using air strikes … Continue reading Who would you believe: Sri Lankan Government, Survivors, LTTE insiders?
So most of you already know the news. This high school kid Salim kept a beard in a convent school, school authorities didn't appreciate. The kid sued the school. I don't know if it was his own idea to go as far as Supreme Court for this mere cause of keeping beard or was it … Continue reading Justice Katju’s remark equating bearded muslim with Talibans
Blogging this as I watch this story closely on CNN IBN: *Satire alert* -- 12 am - This whole Gandhi Auction issue is such a ridiculous waste of national time and resources. We are such losers. Much like the screen Gandhi of Lage Raho Munnabhai, Gandhiji's soul must have woken up with a startle with … Continue reading Live Blog:The Gandhi Auction, Vijay Mallya saved nation’s father from going to foreign hands
Posted yesterday on Mutiny.In, have recieved 30 comments so far...Read on... I was doing some random search on Google when I stumbled upon this website called The Morung Express. The name itself suggested it's a news site. It looked like something to do with India, but not really. I moved the mouse around the home … Continue reading Did you read the Morung Express
A friend called me up and said, "I want you to write about something. You said you write for mutiny, please write about this issue." Wow! I thought. People call me up to write about important issues. So I asked him what was the issue. He said, President of India visited Hampi last week. For … Continue reading Hampi Hampered by Ms. President
The writer's strike might end by Sunday. A bright future of new media ahead. Apparently, the new tentative agreement assures writers that it “protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery.” That's a major victory for new media stake holders. The end of the strike will … Continue reading Future of New Media
Remo speaks on national television (Times Now), about politicians of not just Goa but every politicians in India, Politicians are not administrators, they are thieves, they join politics to make money, they have no respect for law and order, they do not even abide by what the Supreme Court orders. Law and police are in … Continue reading Opinionated
Just why is it such a big news that Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par made L.K Advani cry. In fact the news of Aamir holding a special screening for Advani in New Delhi in itself was in headlines a day before. Obviously this fuss is because of Aamir's continuous support to the Narmada Bachao Andolan … Continue reading Sena resurrected Adolf Hitler?
Tasleema Nasreen, a celebrated author, a woman, a guest of the nation, physically attacked, manhandled by Muslim MLAs at a Book Launch, in the name of protecting Islam. And there would be no nation wide condemnation of the act, there would be no candle light march, those MFers won't be punished, and they say Sanjay … Continue reading Taslima Nasreen attacked, what a shame
"Sab log dhyan se suniye, abhi aapko Room No. *** mein jaana hai. Wahan aapko ek written test dena hoga. 20 questions hoga sab ke char answer honge, teen galat ek sahi. Aap wahan jaayenge hamara pen dikhayenge, Aapko question bilkul nahi padna hai, kisi bhi ek option pe tick maarna hai. I repeat, quetions … Continue reading My write up for Bribe Delhi website
