Remembrance
- by Deeyah, founder of MEMINI Remembrance: http://memini.co/memini/about-memini/ Every human life is sacred, every person by dint of being born is given a life to live out. We all die, so dying in and...
View ArticleRape – nothing but exhibition of “Male-Power”
- posted by arjun@war Many say that a gender-neutral law is a must to “protect men from women rapists”. I argue this is a “gross misunderstanding” of rape-psychology. The rare occurrences of women...
View ArticleThe Illusion and the Arrogance of Modesty
- by Dibyesh Anand we will give you the choice we will invoke the sacred we will bring in culture we will talk of honour we will affirm the tradition we will appeal to you we will bully you we will...
View ArticleThat awkward moment
by Saswat Pattanayak That awkward moment when ABVP is doing AISA’s job, mainstream media doing alternative media’s, NDTV doing Tehelka’s, Arun Jaitley doing Arundhati Roy’s, Javed Akhtar doing Ranjit...
View ArticleStates and People
by Dibyesh Anand States build States care States patronise States domesticate States occupy States militarise States destroy People hope -*- written in reference to the article A road to Dominance?
View ArticleThe colors of occupation
Militarily occupied Politically appropriated History distorted Dignity denied Bodies tortured Bodies humiliated Bodies raped Bodies disappeared Socially messed up Culturally domesticated Economically...
View ArticleTorment
The umbilical chord didn’t set me free I was bound in chains of territory, borders, traditions, culture, honour, norms, scriptures, dogma The priest shrieked, the pandit hollered, the mulla yelped...
View ArticleWhy?
We stab her We dishonor her She is tortured She gets violated We put her through hell We do it again and over again She is stoned to death She is treated like a lesser mortal We abuse her We blame her...
View ArticlePatriarchy in a nutshell
Women told they come from the rib of a man Women stoned for adultery Women lynched for defying the diktats of the male elders Women burnt for not bringing in enough dowry Women having their genitals...
View ArticleAn ode to love
Possess me not For I am love Enslave me not For I am love Chain me not For I am love Dominate me not I am love!! Torment me not I am love Bind me not I am love Hate me not I am love Spare me The...
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