Call for Social Change :: Gender Divide
Recent articles from the archives
Feminist Mumbo-Jumbo!
Pranay Rupani Jul 21, 2008Patriarchal society has ingrained in us so deeply the thought that women are lesser to men, that it is bound to surface (even if it is subconscious).
Targeted Taxi Drivers
Lokhi Menon Feb 5, 2008Day passes and night creeps up over the city,
Suddenly the TV chatters “taxi drivers targeted in Mumbai”
6th December 1992
M B Qasmi Dec 5, 2007A turning point in Hindu Muslim relations in the post independence Indian history. It was a moment when all truths about religious coexistence suddenly proved false.
Indian Exceptionalism: Colonial Stereotypes and Postcolonial Realities
Rohit Chopra Oct 25, 2007Indian exceptionalism manifests itself as nationalist, chauvinist, and fundamentalist sentiment, often mingling unhealthily with other kinds of closed-minded imperatives.
Quit India: Hindutva Goons!
Subhash Gatade Jul 24, 2006Bombay, the city that never sleeps, can be said to be a new barometer of the mood of the broad masses of the Indian people.
See RSS, Think Al Queda!
Subhash Gatade Aug 24, 2005Within a span of a few months this is the third time in a row that the Parivar and its men have received rebukes either at the hands of the US establishment itself or through those institutions/peoples who are working closely with it.
A Moses on his Harley Davidson
Harish Nambiar Jul 14, 2005In an act of symbolic irony, in September, precisely three months before communal riots erupted on December 6th 1992 in Bombay, the Dawood gang or D company as it was called, had accomplished its last secular killing.
Dance of the wolves
Farzana Versey Jul 5, 2005No part of the temple has been damaged. But the red alert has been sounded. To protect temples and other religious places. Not human beings.
Do riot children smell fear in parent’s sweat?
Harish Nambiar May 31, 2005And yet, they go back to their insular neighbourhoods. Will the school triumph over the whispered prejudices of their neighbourhoods?
Frameless Heads on Nameless Walls
neha kirpal May 29, 2005In a communal riot, people are often shot by the mere mention of their name. Point blank. Your biggest asset turns into your biggest disadvantage.
Ride Across the River
Dilip DSouza May 13, 2005For one long instant, I have the feeling that I’ve been transported back to that day. That any second now, as we drive past, the bicycle will explode and send sharp bits of metal slicing into my flesh. As it once did to 38-year-old Major Abhimanyu S
’Dangerous like my English teacher’
Harish Nambiar May 12, 2005Surekha’s home, which was half arborium. Three years ago that house was an unkempt one. She managed to keep it exactly like that three years thence.The house had a personality, a confident casual rakishness that hated grooming. A reflection of its o
’Our Shiv Sena’
Harish Nambiar May 4, 2005Is it a case of the Stockholm syndrome working late? As a young wife and mother she was a victim, ever fearful, of the terror of the Shiv Sena in Bombay. And the real fear of physical attacks. Thirty years later, she called the Sena “ours.”
Sense and Sensibility
Harish Nambiar Mar 22, 2005At Delhi's Pragati Maidan, a lady asked me whether I could depict Krishna and Radha in forms and actions other than what I had ever done. I said yes. And she said to depict Krishna bowling to Radha, while Radha was batting. Bhaskar was blushing...
An Iranian Exile in Sambhalpur
Harish Nambiar Mar 14, 2005The VHP issue had taken a more serious turn, filling Sister Miriam Morris, the Christian nun who headed St Joseph, with panic.What had happened was really macabre. One of the children attending the medical camp was given a tonic, which was past its expiry
Manto Strikes
Harish Nambiar Mar 8, 2005The smoke had reached an alarming proportion, and the whole chawl would be up in a minute, since chawls have a habit of being burnt down before one can say “damn your blouse.”
If Godhra did not happen…
Farzana Versey Jan 27, 2005Has the possibility of the kar sevaks being a suicide squad not occurred to anyone? Could they not have been terrorists out to create trouble?
Bhatti’s “Behzti (Dishonor)” hurts Sikh Sensitivities
Mohammad Gill Dec 20, 2004But then the play wouldn’t have created a (publicity) storm; it would probably not have attracted much attention. One of the facts of modern
“Final” solution?
Shujaat Wasty Oct 5, 2004Review of Rakesh Sharma’s documentary, Final Solution: It is a study of the politics of hate in India, examining the Hindu Extremist movement, a look at their ideology and methodology, and the genocide they conducted in Gujarat.
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