Alpha Cooks
I read an article in the New York Times entitled “He Cooks. She Stews. It’s Love.” that rung very true to me. It’s about the recent phenomenon of ‘alpha cooks’. I’m always endlessly fascinated with human psychology and the different ways that the genders interact with each other. The article talks about women in the [...]
Uma Bharati Used and Thrown by BJP
Manu Smriti was written millennia ago, but if in all of its history it was ever followed, then it is now and by the BJP.
BJP has a high regard for women, it treats women as mothers and Devis, but it has no high impression of them. In all of BJP’s history and even before, [...]
The Third Gender - India’s favorite Hijras
I have seen and heard of hijras, but I knew nothing about them. The transgendered people have had a long history in India, the country of paradoxes - our orthodoxy and heterodoxy are both vibrant.
Sonia Faleiro is a journalist with Tehelka who has accomplished many wonderful works of journalism. Her latest is an interview [...]
Every 7 minutes a Woman is Harrassed
Isn’t this the saddest statistic of India? Oh well after poverty, hunger, crime………oh shouldn’t have started this!
But treatment of women has degraded in India and has reached quite abyssmal levels. Stories of rape, molestation and even harrassment abound, but are rarely reported. As P Vasudha says, Indian media should definitely give women’s issues more mileage [...]
Draupadi of Mahabharata cries out in Pratibha Ray’s Yajnaseni
I have just finished reading Pradip Bhattacharya’s English translation of the Oriya book “Yajnaseni” by the famed writer Pratibha Ray. If women can be educated and modern without losing their cultural identity, then Pratibha Ray sets an excellent example. Yajnaseni won her a Bharatiya Jnanpith award in 1993.
The story of Draupadi, the heroine [...]
Shobha Warrier’s Kiss of Chennai
Shobha Warrier got truly emotional and wrote up an article in the heat of the moment about the recent trend of kissing in Chennai.
Her sharp tongue seems to have tested the tolerance of the pacific, but vocal, Chennai community! Many Chennaiites and Chennai-lovers have ardently protested her writing, which even by my liberal standards, is [...]
India’s women far ahead of its men
Guys - our women have changed!
It is a truism that women are always leagues ahead of men in being modern and shedding orthodoxy. This can just be seen from our mother vs. father or grandma vs. grandpa comparisons.
But a recent survey in our cities gives results which have even outpaced my predictions!
For starters,
In big metro [...]