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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Three of Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories, written within a few months of one another, posit the irreconcilability of being human with patriarchy and gender inequity.
He is an undertrial, implicated under falsified charges under the draconian UAPA. At the age of 72 years, when people need to be cared for by their children, and be surrounded by their families, Anand and my struggles are entirely different. And all this merely on the basis of a story presented by the NIA to the court, the facts of which are pending verification.
The struggle for women’s emancipation cannot be separated from the fight against the hierarchical caste system which both perpetuates and strengthens Brahminical patriarchy in India.
In pronouncing the end of the marital rape exception, the Karnataka High Court has delivered a nuanced judgment. A look at what our Dharma Sastras, Vedas and Manu say about the position of women in society.
Examples of ‘sexist harassment’ include: insulting an employee in public or in front of colleagues, engaging in smear campaigns and statements damaging a person’s reputation or career. These sexist forms of harassment need to be nipped in the bud, but are often brushed aside as minor complaints.
Dancer/choreographer Chandralekha’s original essay on the iconography of the female, its deep subconscious power and its potential feminist charge.
March 8 should be a day to honour women who fought for their rights and dreamt of a world where there would be justice and peace.
Thanks to the Shaheen Bagh women, my daughters, and a million others, have real life role models.
The period of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a dramatic worsening of the conditions of ordinary women and girls, made worse by official apathy and patriarchal attitudes of those in power.
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalized German revolutionary socialist; Manuela Sáenz fought by the side of Simón Bolívar to unify South America; Harriet Tubman fought during the US Civil War as a leader of Black and white troops fighting for freedom.
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