While Barack Obama proclaims White House support to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities to which India is a signatory, the Indian Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgment in a unique case of young woman in India. My apologies, but the subject necessitates a lengthy post.
Background
Born in 1991, this woman …
Category Archives: women
Mentally Challenged, Raped, Pregnant. Abort?
Religion vs. Gender Equality & Feminism
How do religions treat women? How do emancipated women treat religion? A sequence of events recently has made my mind unquiet over this subject. Nita asked if Hinduism was coming of age, with people performing the sacred ‘thread ceremony’ on their daughters. The BJP found itself trapped in the maze of confusion surrounding Hindutva. And …
A to Z of Films Meme (M)
The most commonly uttered line in English films is “Let’s get outta here” (or its variants). The most commonly uttered sentence in Indian Hindi films is “Driver, us gaadi ka peecha karo!” (“Driver, follow that car!”).
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Mirch Masala
What is the price of a woman’s honor?
In colonial India, Tax Collectors tyrannized villages with soldiers, collecting much more than …
A to Z of Films Meme ©
“Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.”
– Akira Kurosawa
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Charulata
No points for guessing this one, my dear readers! Ray at his sublime best. The camera speaking more eloquently than the dialogue. Structurally perfect. Emotionally subtle and complex. Vividly chromatic cinema in monochrome. Immaculate …
Light Rays on Charulata
I agree with Satyajit Ray. Charulata (IMDB) is his best film. Period.
I did not have the courage to write about Charulata, because it is as if one is writing about the Mona Lisa. One is afraid, that one is not of ‘that’ level of an artistic connoisseur, and hence tends to keep mum about great …
Indian Women: Avoid Orkut, Switch to Facebook
One of the most frequently googled post on this blog is Indian Women: Beware of Orkut. They use many different keywords to land on that post: photo misuse on Orkut, indian women abuse orkut, and so on. Sometimes, Orkutians post a link to my article while ‘scrapping’ their friends in Orkut, and I get several hits …
Spooky Spock
This is the spookiest thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet yet. A revolutionary people-focused search engine, Spock, launched into public beta today.
About 30% of all search traffic is people related — about 20 billion search queries per month. How is it different from Google or other mainstream search engines? If you Google “boxer”, you’ll …
Indian inventor doctor’s breakthrough
After reading about doctors who become heroes for spending some time in jail while being innocent, and doctors who intentionally fake critical evidence in scientific research, it is refreshing to read about an Indian doctor inventing a device that could help in endoscopic surgeries the world over:
Jaipur-based surgeon Atul Kumar’s patented invented device could potentially reduce the risk …
When will this stop?!
Disturbing news broke out to start the week:
Thirty polythene bags stuffed with the body parts of female fetuses and newly born babies have been found in a dry well near a private clinic in the east Indian state of Orissa, police said on Monday.
Police suspect the body parts - mainly skulls and bones — were dumped in …
Impotent Initiative to Fight Feticide
This is to be read to be believed. The Indian Government’s Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury has proposed that all pregnant women (and girls) in India, register their pregnancies with the Government. What is this supposed to achieve? Reduce female feticide.
Some activists said the government’s plan to create a pregnancy register in a …
