The need to demystify male violence

The need to demystify male violence

Films made on women acting out their anger don’t do as well as men losing it spectacularly. The recent critical and commercial success of Joker proves once again that empathy is a mercurial element and reacts differently to stories of men and women. Female victims of extreme violence are seldom as well-known as their killers […]

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Remembering Nirbhaya

Remembering Nirbhaya

She’s been named Damini, Braveheart, Nirbhaya and counting.  Now we know her real name and to that 23- year- old girl from Delhi, I, for one, doff my hat.  If ever we’ve seen a symbol of courage, of hope, of fortitude, of fighting against all odds, she’s been it.  ** Having been subjected to the […]

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Domestic Help

Domestic Help

I’ve mentioned before, I’m relatively new to Kolkata.. Calcutta. Before coming here, I’ve never had domestic help. Today, I have a cook, a cleaner and someone to look after the little ones. I’m a little spoilt, if truth be told. I’m living an easy life, free to do as I choose. But having this freedom […]

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Unsafe…

Unsafe…

The air is still. Almost as if it has decided to see just how quietly it can creep, undetected, through her home. Not a leaf has moved. Not a sigh has escaped her lips. Not a word of this article she has read has stayed back except one: raped. The images swirl in her head. […]

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WSS Statement Against Prison Assault

WSS Statement Against Prison Assault

Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS), condemn the assault on three women under-trials, Angela Sontakey, 42, Sushma Ramteke, 22, and Jyoti Chorghe,19, in the Mumbai District Women’s Prison in Byculla. On March 31, they witnessed an assault upon some other inmates by the prison staff. When they tried to intervene, they too were attacked by the staff. […]

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Onus…

Onus…

The two convicts in the Pune BPO employee rape-cum-murder case, Purshottam Borate and Pradip Komokate,  were sentenced to death,  sometime back. News of sexual violence against women sends me into an overdrive.I am approaching 50 but am as angry, as touchy about this business of the second sex as I was, 30 years ago. The reason […]

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