No Country for Women
Pic Courtesy: India Today In India we are reminded rather frequently that women still do not have an access to safe public spaces. The Bangalore Incident that happened on 31st December, 2016 which saw women out to celebrate New Year being groped, pawed and molested by hordes of men is a gruesome reminder of this very fact. While Delhi has been infamous as a rather unsafe place for women, the fact that other cities are faring well on this front is nothing but a well cultivate…
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On Babies and Bodies
With an over-enthusiastic news media which is always eager to please an overtly voyeuristic audience, we are often presented with celebrities cornered and asked about issues on which they don’t know much. The same has been the case with Lisa Haydon who was asked about her views on Feminism. And a few awkward sentences tumbled out. We were presented with her ‘profound wisdom’ of how people make unnecessary noise about Feminism and how it is overtly misused as a concept. How t…
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This blog is authored by Parvin Sultana. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Pramathesh Barua College, Assam, India. She regularly writes on contemporary socio-political issues.
