Saris or jeans, salwar kameez or skirts, it's clearly only a matter of personal preference: it is ill-advised of women in the public eye to play into misogynist hands by picking on other women
Why was there such consternation among the British ruling elite as they pontificated between gritted teeth about what the damn electorate has served up?
Sarah Palin is condemned by some Western feminists, but she is also a product of some of its most restrictive visions. It is time for lessons to be learned--from outside the West.
Having reduced a once significant anti-colonialism to a self-serving dogma, Mugabe and his party's addiction to power will further indulge an equally self-serving Western appetite for spectacles of Third World despotism
Or how to rubbish all those who don't agree with you, get up your nose, yank your goat, or articulate critique and are likely, in any way, to challenge your undisputed supremacy as Pundit of the Postcolonial Nation. A response to <a href=http://www.o
In 1932, a young woman named Rashid Jahan was denounced by some clerics and threatened with disfigurement and death. A doctor by training like Taslima Nasreen, she too had written about seclusion, sexual oppression and female suffering in a patriarc
What does the conferral of an archaic honour on Salman Rushdie--a visionary and complex writer lamentably transformed into a weak-voiced celebrity--and the ensuing outcry tell us about our times?
A national debate on race relations does need to take place. But it must be more complex than the simple binaries and easy scapegoating provided by Celebrity Big Brother's mud-wrestling idiocies.
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