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Ban or no ban- I don’t think I am going to watch India’s Daughter. I don’t really need to see a film to know that rape is brutal, a rapist is a perverted narrow-minded misogynist, India is a patriarchy, lawmakers, lawyers and many people in our society have notions about women’s conduct that should have died centuries ago. From what I have read about the...

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Once again, some Political Personality has said something Politically Incorrect about women. Last week, the Turkish President declared “Our religion (Islam) has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood,” “Some people can understand this, while others can’t. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don’t accept the concept of motherhood.”   A part of me dismissed him as another male chauvinist who makes random motherhood...

Sometimes completely unrelated things that happen around the same time get you to think about one single thing. There might be some greater cosmic significance or it could be random coincidence but these things happen.   I saw the movie Mary Kom.   In a stairway leading to a shop, I saw a poster that said My wife does not Work with a picture of a multi-armed multi-tasking woman.   Someone...

Indra Nooyi’s interview has once again brought the ‘having it all’ issue into focus. Some women are aggrieved that her comments have set the feminist movement back a decade or two. Others applaud her for finally being honest enough to admit that a woman cannot be a perfect mother, wife, and CEO. The ‘having it all’ monster keeps rearing its Hydra head from time to...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you could not have missed the brouhaha about our HRD minister’s educational qualification. Is Smriti Irani a BA pass or BCom graduate? Is she a graduate at all? Did she lie about her educational qualification? Is this a political conspiracy?   It could easily be one of those pointless charades that are enacted from time to time-full of sound...