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Sadhguru praises “the feminine,” wins over world’s women

June 7th, 2010 · View Comments

Sadhguru’s Huffington Post piece from last week, If the Feminine Ruled This Planet, Life Would Be About Living, really struck a chord with me. Firstly, a caveat:
When I say feminine, I am not talking about it in terms of male-female; I am talking about it in terms of masculine-feminine.
Yes, but women certainly are implicated. The [...]

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Tags: culture · economic development · empowerment · feminism · gender roles and division of labour · human development

Milestones: Three years in the pink city

May 25th, 2010 · View Comments

Recently, I keep starting out my posts with numbers. Perhaps it helps me to establish the landmarks, to measure my success on this uncharted path. For me, these three years are the longest ever time that I’ve been settled in one place since I graduated from high school in 1999. I’m discounting the four years [...]

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Tags: Sharings · culture · feminism · gender roles and division of labour · health & well-being · marriage/divorce · me · mobility · spirituality

Culture shock & conversation

May 25th, 2010 · View Comments

Kelly shares an experience of sexual harrassment and culture-shock while living in Cairo:
It took a long time for me to process that culture shock–perhaps I am still–but one thing I know is this: The conversation is dynamic between an individual and her environment and just as it would be absolutely absurd to respond in a conversation [...]

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Tags: Sharings · culture · expat life · feminism · health & well-being · human development · violence against women/harrassment

Education=empowerment + alcoholism?

April 17th, 2010 · View Comments

For my dissertation at LSE, I wrote about a UNICEF project for girl’s education and questioned its assumption that education was automatically empowering. A contact of mine currently at the LSE, Layla, has posted some very interesting research–conducted by the LSE, no less–that again brings these questions to my mind:  Cleverest women are the heaviest [...]

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Tags: economic development · education · empowerment · feminism · gender roles and division of labour · girl child · health & well-being · human development

Buy happiness through “Eat, Pray, Love” baubles

April 13th, 2010 · View Comments

“We relate to the theme of a woman’s journey for self-fulfillment and happiness,” says founder of Dogeared, the company with the magical touch for marketing the fundamentals of life (and the new product line designed for the upcoming release of Eat, Pray, Love the movie).

I can’t say I’m surprised, but is anyone else out there [...]

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Tags: activism · economic development · environment · feminism · human development · media

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