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Amrita Pritam: Not Just A Poet, But Revolution Personified | #IndianWomenInHistory
Amrita Pritam’s legacy for women and subsequent generations is to intentionally challenge status quo, trying to use art to challenge accepted taboos and redefine them. Be fearless, unabashed and courageous in the face of crude censorship and charges of obscenity, of raising and using your voice to speak as you see the world – not in the manner that the world expects you to speak.
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Bromances from mythology
Biblical scholars, who value abstinence, reject such sexual interpretations, but not modern LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) activists, who have even traced formal same-sex unions in Church liturgy called adelphopoiesis or “brother-making”. We see what we want to see. We allow what we are comfortable with, and what we are mature about. Love is indeed a splendid thing. But sex remains a bad habit.
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September 15, 2017
THE PRINCE AND THE STORYTELLERS
“In fact, if you look at all these lady-heroines, it’s the same tedious tale again and again: the grand prize of a girl’s existence is shown to be her marriage to a wealthy and powerful man.”
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September 15, 2017
A Bottle of Liquor: How Bastar’s Adivasis Settle Disputes Over Love and Sex
A sense of humour, easy solutions and liquor as compensation help keep things simple. The Hirma episode is one of…
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Snippets from the Indian LGBT Movement: Extracted from Records in SAATHII Calcutta’s LGBT Support Centre Reference Library
As an organized political movement the Indian LGBT movement is still quite young, having taken its first steps only in the early 1990s. However, it is not as if the movement started overnight. Rather it was a result of several visible and invisible developments taking place over the years in the world and Indian contexts.
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Women’s Sexual Fantasies – the Latest Scientific Research
Dr Raj Persaud Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Jenny Bivona Clinical psychologist A team of psychologists led by a woman has uncovered some…
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November 15, 2016
India’s raped comic ‘super hero’ returns to fight acid attacks
“The reason I chose this subject is because there’s a clear co-relation between rape and acid attacks. The patriarchy, the social stigma and the attitude towards victims are the same in both. In fact, I think the lack of empathy for acid attack survivors is ten times more because their scars are visible,” he says.
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November 15, 2016
The Government Must Rethink the Surrogacy Bill
The draft Bill appears to have been framed without addressing the actual concerns of the surrogacy arrangements in India, and could do more harm than good by leading to the exploitation of women.
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October 17, 2016
South Korea Plans Lifelong Parenting Education
South Korea is planning to provide people with lifelong parenting education in the hope that it will prevent child abuse, it’s reported.
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October 17, 2016
That Hashtag Was My Colleague
By Sonia Khan | Grist Media – Mon 18 Aug, 2014 Doubting doctors, corrupt cops, jeering lawyers and, of course,…
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October 15, 2014
‘Popular Stereotyping’
Time and again, our films underline the supremacy of man. Modernity is reduced to a matter of packaging. A modern…
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October 15, 2014
Discourse of desire
By: Nupur Sharma The Hindu. Shohini Ghosh at Lodhi Garden Restaurant, New Delhi. Photo: V.V. Krishnan Over a hearty meal, film…
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October 15, 2014
Woman, man or a little bit of both? How deciding Caster Semenya’s gender is more complex than you might think
This post was originally published at Mail Online. The family and friends of the teenager who struck gold in the women’s…
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Sport is slowly catching up with transgender realities
“The UFC was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione,” stated the mixed martial arts governing body, which recently suspended…
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September 15, 2014