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November 2010

November 20, 2010

Fall Of The Feminine

A few weeks back I had written a post about how the media has not...

November 19, 2010

How Indians think?

How do Indians think? As vast and as diverse our nation is, it is nevertheless...

November 18, 2010

The Great Telecom Scam: is it really a scam?

The entire 2G spectrum scam is a sham. Lets look at the numbers first, they...

September 2010

September 15, 2010

Sense And Sensibility – Are We Losing It?

It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, I was teaching my son about the role of...

September 08, 2010

A Return Which Killed Her – Story Of A Muslim Girl

Her eyes shone with the dangling of her earrings and the tinkle of her anklet,...

September 03, 2010

Can Your Employer Be Your Moral Inspector?!

A conversation with my maid servant made me think about this. Can one person be...

August 2010

August 30, 2010

Femininity – The Complexity Of Human Sexuality

I wanted to start writing a series of posts on femininity, being feminine and the...

August 21, 2010

When Indian Muslim Women Questioned Fatwa

Imagine the alleys of an old city in a place like Lucknow, and in a...

June 2010

June 11, 2010

Increasing smoking amongst women in India: #3 in the world

Smoking is a habit that hits directly at a person's basic living system - the...

April 2010

April 28, 2010

When Boobs quaked the world!

A low-cut protest rocked the world this week. The epicenter was the facebook page called...

April 23, 2010

India – a Demented Nation of Confused Hypocritical Moral Activists

I am not saying whether it is right or wrong - for that is NOT...

April 09, 2010

Are we an English obsessed nation?

The two largest English speaking countries in the world are India (350 million) and United...

April 09, 2010

Be prepared to welcome 400 million refugees by 2015

Displacing farmers out of their farmland is the neo-liberal economic growth model - prescribed by...

April 01, 2010

When Poverty is better than Misery

Poverty is the worst state many imagine, but what can be worse than Poverty?

March 2010

March 02, 2010

Taslima Nasreen: Persona of a Besieged Woman

There is a riot raging in Karnataka because of a Bangladeshi woman - Taslima Nasreen.

January 2010

January 10, 2010

Single Women in India: Fight for Rights

In US and in other Western countries, it is easier for single women - with...

July 2009

July 13, 2009

Girls undergo Virginity test before mass state wedding in MP

If good has to be done, it must be done according to the whims of...

July 12, 2009

First woman Army officer court martialed

Now that the women officers are in the Indian Defense services, it seems they are...

June 2009

June 27, 2009

Woman, Burkha and Sarkozy

A woman walks into a store and sees trousers and short skirts. Decides to buy...

June 03, 2009

What if Women Controlled the World?

What if women ruled the world? Well, world would definitely be very different. If the...

April 2009

April 29, 2009

A 12 year old leads fight against Child Marriage in Bengal

Child Marriage is a curse in India specially for the little girls. They are often...

February 2009

February 28, 2009

Slumdog but not a Millionaire!

There has been a lot of hype around Slumdog Millionaire.. the Oscar, the poverty, the...

December 2008

December 31, 2008

Attacks on Sikh Family in CA and SALDEF

Going further on the racist attacks on the Sikhs, here is how the Sikh American...

December 05, 2008

What is the end game here??

From the way things are going, we will end up more deep in the hole....

November 2008

November 23, 2008

Female Body mutilation practices and her Sexuality

A woman's body has been a playground throughout the human history. And still man cannot...

October 2008

October 26, 2008

Sex addiction and women

Sex can be a wonderful bond of flesh between humans, but it can become an...

October 20, 2008

India has more black money than the rest of the world COMBINED!

Is India poor? Its a good question but when you look at the records of...

August 2008

August 21, 2008

"Beauty-disadvantaged" women beckoned by Mayor of Aussie mining town

In north-west Queensland state of Australia, the mayor of Mt Isa, John Molony found his...

July 2008

July 26, 2008

Truth of American Justice system

Image via WikipediaA lot is said of the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo and shame...

July 25, 2008

A Prostitution Pricing Chart

Of course, humans can also read and write which Monkeys cannot. Humans are more sophisticated...