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Raquel Welch’s yoga & feminism?

April 13th, 2010 · View Comments

The book, “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage,” has made the New York Times Best-seller List.  Has she actually transcended the beauty business thanks to age and yoga?
“The thing about aging is that its got all these wonderful answers attached to it,” Welch said, adding that age alone should never define a person.
I’m holding together just fine, I’m not [...]

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Tags: empowerment · gender bias · health & well-being · media · sex and sexuality

Tantra – Being an Instrument of Life

November 13th, 2009 · View Comments

Tantra – what used to be a whole spiritual path, has been abused and misunderstood to be mere unbridled promiscuity, especially in the West. In Tantra – Being an Instrument of Life, Sadhguru redefines tantra, restoring it to its original scope and dimension as an ancient technology for ultimate transformation.

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Tags: sex and sexuality · spirituality

‘Unclean’ blood

September 9th, 2008 · View Comments

Many refer to it as ‘nature’s curse on women’. It’s commonly thought of as unclean. In some cultures, women are not even allowed to cook during those days of month. But, path-breaking new research could change the way people view the menstrual cycle. And it’s here in India, for the first time ever. The blood [...]

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Tags: culture · health & well-being · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality

Not for the faint-hearted: TOI on sexual lib

September 3rd, 2008 · View Comments

The O-zone on Sunday covered the new trend among 20-30 something women, most of whom are still single, going all out for one-night stands and no strings attached.
Sexcapades of young women, their casual attitude towards flings and open declaration that sex is just a physical need like any other, lead one to wonder how this [...]

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Tags: culture · economic development · empowerment · gender roles and division of labour · globalisation · health & well-being · human development · marriage/divorce · media · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality

Harrassment, etc

August 26th, 2008 · View Comments

The Washington Post had an in-depth piece on Indian women’s status. It starts off discussing ‘eve-teasing’, i.e. harrassment, but then delves into the whole range of issues from dowry to sex-selective abortion:
For India’s middle-class urban women, the past decade has brought unprecedented opportunities to advance in a social order long dominated by men. But a [...]

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Tags: activism · culture · dowry · economic development · empowerment · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · girl child · globalisation · mobility · sex and sexuality · trade · violence against women/harrassment

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