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| Madhu Purnima Kishwar's Blog |
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| “I have a horror of all isms, especially those that attach themselves to proper names”. |
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| Posted on: October 27, 2011 |
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Some Thoughts on Dipawali
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The happiest memories of my life are connected with the festival of Dipawali even though I hate the deafening noise and air pollution that comes from Diwali crackers.
Ever since I came of age, Diwali was never an occasion for partying. It meant putting aside everything and everyone else to be with my parents for the evening puja and join my mother in singing the aarti. Even today, the sound of my mother's simple rendering of the aarti is for me the most melodious and divine sound in the entire world. After the puja when my mother would distribute gifts to all of us, in my eyes she looked like Lakshmi incar... |
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| First Published in : Dainik Bhasker, October 26, 2011 |
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| Posted on: August, 27, 2010 |
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Express Solidarity With the People of Kashmir
An Appeal to all Concerned Citizens |
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Manushi: Citizens First Forum requests you to join a citizens delegation to present a memorandum to Smt Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA on the unprecedented crisis in Jammu and Kashmir and participate in a candlelight vigil in the memory of the innocents who have lost their lives in the current phase of violence in the state. We also urge you to sign the Resolution given below.
Date: September 3, 2010
Submission of Memorandum: 5.30 p.m.
Venue: AICC office, 24 Akbar Road, New Delhi
Candle Light Vigil: 7.00 p.m with Sufi music by Madan Gopal Singh and Youth Expressions from Kashmir
Venue: India Gate
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| Posted on: August, 23, 2010 |
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Wake up New Delhi
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What the ISI-trained terrorists and their agents in Kashmir could not achieve in 20 years, Omar Abdullah and his patrons in Delhi Durbar have managed to deliver to separatists in less than 18 months. Farooq Abdullah is well within his right as the father of the present Chief Minister of J&K to advise his son not to resign despite the worsening situation in Kashmir. But by telling Omar to keep clinging to his chair even when he has earned universal wrath in Kashmir all because he has still not yet lost favour with the Congress Party High Command is to openly declare that he owes his position to the Delhi Dur... |
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| Posted on: August, 20, 2010 |
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When Daughters Are Unwanted
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TECHNOLOGIES like amniocentesis and ultrasound, used in most parts of the world largely for detecting foetal abnormalities, are used in large parts of the Indian subcontinent for determining the sex of the foetus so that the mother can have an abortion if the foetus in the womb happens to be a female. The rapid spread of these tests has resulted in sex selective abortions of hundreds of thousands of female foetuses.
The magnitude of the problem can be gauged by noting that Dr Sunil Kothari , who runs a major ultrasound and abortion clinic in Delhi, admitted to having performed 60,000 such tests during an int... |
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| Posted on: August 18, 2010 |
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Women’s Organisations
The Pressure of Unrealistic Expectations |
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| “ATROCITIES on women are increasing. Does it not show that women’s organisations have failed in their task?” The implicaiion of this oft-asked question is that since women’s organisations have singlehanded taken on the responsibility of eradicating violence and injustice against women therefore, the continuation of this violence shows the ineffectiveness and futility of women’s organisations. Often, the question is related to a specific case of violence reported in the press: “So and so woman has been killed or battered or raped. What are women’s organisations do... |
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| Posted on: August 18, 2010 |
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Well Intentioned but Over Ambitious
A Review of the New Domestic Violence Act |
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| The new Domestic Violence Act (DVA) has made some significant improvements over the existing laws but it is not as if prior to this Act civil laws did not exist to protect women’s rights in the family. Astute and determined lawyers have successfully pleaded and got adequate relief for their female clients under the existing matrimonial, civil and criminal laws as the article by Flavia Agnes demonstrates. But, the tardiness of court procedures and judicial bias often resulted in miscarriage of justice.
The biggest shortcoming of this Act is its overweening ambition and lack of sense of proportion. Ordinari... |
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