The country is suffering, while the elite are engaged in Facebook wars. Nothing is going to change till each of us makes up his or her mind to fight patriarchy, caste, communalism and injustice. The working class continues to exist on a pittance, and the politicians continue to roll in rivers of money. I was […]
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Talking To India’s Unheard, Invisible Women
“… cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally full of obscure rituals and intricate rules that everyone seems to know…” ~ Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti I’m reading Our Lady of Alice Bhatti as I travel trip my way across India, meeting women for the newest campaign of our NGO- an […]
Amazon, Women Can Shop for Themselves
Here’s the next edition of ‘Conditioning is for Hair, not Minds’ in collaboration with The Spoilt Modern Indian Woman. The ad I am taking up is Amazon’s new groundbreaking (not) social experiment, titled “When a Woman Shops”. Check it out here. The ad begins with a group of men, in a generic, posh, urban living room, talking […]
Feminism Is For Everyone
“Men who want to be feminists need not be given a space in feminism. They need to take the space they have in society and make it feminist”. -Kelley Temple For some reason, this year began with a number of my male friends accusing my writing of being “alienating” and “scary”. I was told (by […]
Glorious, Unfettered And Angry
When a friend of mine asked me to review Angry Indian Goddesses, I was quite apprehensive. I don’t have what is generally considered “good taste” in films. I’m a little ashamed to admit that my films of choice are cheesy chick flicks that end with confessions of love and kisses in the snow. However, I […]
Be ‘Conspicuously’ Married
It was the beginning of a new academic year. The entire school was back after a break. It was my first year at work after marriage. Many of them at school knew about this as I had invited them for the function before we broke for the holidays. As I entered the school office I […]
The Woman Beyond The Cleavage
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially, if you are a woman. A cleavage pointer is headed your way like a missile to show the world what it would have missed if it only looked at your eyes instead of your breasts. If someone looked in your eyes, really really long….they would not have seen what […]
In Search Of The Homely Girl
When we hear about women, who are ill-treated in Afghanistan, Pakistan and a few other countries, we often catch ourselves feeling happy about living in India, where we presume that many women are independent, safe and considered ‘equals’. While the recent crimes unleashed against women prove that this country is not really women-friendly, I […]
FSS’s Memorandum Against Gender Selection
To, Honourable Shri. Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister ,Maharashtra State Mantralay Mumbai Subject : Appropriate actions about sex selection. Respected Sir, Forum against Sex Selection (FASS) is a network with over 50 Ngo’s and individual members . FASS has conducted interactive workshops to discuss its perspective and plan strategies to take the FASS campaign forward and to understand challenges to […]
Letters from Prison On International Women’s Day
This is not an authored article but we at Unboxed Writers feel bound to share this press release issued by the Free Soni Sori Campaign (Courtesy Kamayani Bali Mahabal). We must do more than just read this story. We must join our voices to make such atrocities impossible. In a global show of solidarity marking […]