The proposed Uniform Civil Code is part of a patriarchal Hindu nationalist agenda to give community land to corporates in the name of women’s rights
As good a day as any to recognise that ‘women’ is neither a stable nor a homogeneous category.
Caught on the back foot by the humiliating backfiring of their fantastical Meerut scenario, it is now the turn of unethical media and ‘social science’ votaries to pitch in
Despite a fevered and fervent communal campaign, ‘The Meerut Girl’ shines a light on the fact that there’s only so much The Parivar—whether biological or Hindutvavaadi—can do.
A Guide for the Perplexed
This does not purport to be an objective account—unlike journalists’ accounts of the ‘Modi wave’, which do claim to be purely factual.
Jakob De Roover’s <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?289559" target="_blank">empathetic account</a> of the imagined ‘Hindu boy with intellectual inclinations’ born in the 1950s needs to be read with another imagined growing child: the
The massive mobilization of public opinion around the issue of sexual violence has reopened the question in familiar and unfamiliar ways
The case of the gutsy young <i>Tehelka</i> journalist, who has blown the cover on the sexual assault she faced from Tarun Tejpal, underlines the need to respect the victim’s views on how she wants to deal with the situation
It is not “they” who say ‘if you are not with us you are against us’, this arrogant divisive slogan has always been ours, on the Left.
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