See my latest post at UltraViolet:
A CLOSE PERSON has been toying with the idea of a divorce for over two years. She has left her husband several times. The most recent attempt seems the most likely to result in divorce—she talked to her husband seriously, met with a lawyer and got all the gory details [...]
Entries from January 2008
Daring to divorce
January 31st, 2008 · View Comments
Tags: gender roles and division of labour · marriage/divorce · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality
Women’s water?!
January 29th, 2008 · View Comments
In the latest marketing craze, companies are launching products especially targeting women who have money to spend and are most likely insecure about themselves–that’s why they may be unhealthy in the first place and aren’t interested in proper nutrition.
If food companies in India were looking for a fair deal, they seem to have found one. [...]
Tags: economic development
Failing on freedom
January 27th, 2008 · View Comments
Tehelka is not a source for the fainthearted to turn to, and it doesn’t put anything lightly. This is a scathing piece which I wish I could have written, but I’m living here and coping the best I can within the given parameters so I try not let my tempers flare in the way the [...]
Tags: empowerment · feminism · human development · marriage/divorce · mobility · sex and sexuality · violence against women/harrassment
Pseudo-marital bliss
January 22nd, 2008 · View Comments
The TOI has an in-depth look at the historical background to the SC’s recent ruling on long term, live-in couples. Turns out this was not a new decision, and it was consistent with a previous ruling from 1927.
The apex court’s inclination to consider such relationships, after a long spell of togetherness, as valid marriages could [...]
Tags: legal issues · marriage/divorce · reproduction and repro rights
The Gulabi Gang
January 20th, 2008 · View Comments
Some women from UP have taken matters into their own hands, forming a group which is determined to mete out justice.
“But we are not a gang in the usual sense of the term. We are a gang for justice. We wear pink because it is the colour of life.”
While I can’t necessarily endorse the use [...]
Tags: empowerment · leadership · legal issues · violence against women/harrassment




















