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Khusar-Pusar

Author(s): Sherein Bansal
"Kab poora hua?" "Hafta toh ho hi gaya" "Dekhna bua ni aayi" &quo...

Responses to - Some Thoughts on India's Republic Day‏

Good morning. Actually it is one day late to say happy republic day. it is all due to Government o...

Some Thoughts on India's Republic Day‏

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
I have never felt like celebrating 15th August, Independence Day. For me, coming from a family of ...

Gently Stooped a Shadow Amply Serene

Author(s): M. Hasan
This poem was written in response to an article on Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant D...

ILL Founded Prejudice

Author(s): Maj Gen Raj Mehta (Retd)
In recent years, there has been animated debate in the media and certainly within the uniformed fr...

Lesser Citizens

Author(s): Bhoomika Joshi
Shanta (name changed), a domestic worker came to the U.K with her employer from Delhi, having work...

Responses to "Some Thoughts on Dipawali"

I recollected a beautiful story when I read of your habit of losing things like shawls etc. on a r...

Some Thoughts on Dipawali

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The happiest memories of my life are connected with the festival of Dipawali even though I hate the ...

Police Raj in Kashmir

Author(s): A Manushi Report
One of India's finest journalists, David Devadas, who is also the author of In Search of a Future,...

Lokpal Bill - Need to Look Beyond Magic Wands

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The country owes a debt of gratitude to Team Anna for succeeding in channeling popular anger again...

Symphony of Golden Poories

Author(s): M Hasan
Slowly kneading American dough from her aged face drips some salty spontaneous drops...

Counterpoint: Jan Lokpal: A Quack’s Prescription

Author(s): Amitabha Pande
There exists an astonishing perversity of consensus about the desirability of having a Lokpal. Ev...

I Wish I Was Malamasa

Author(s): Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor
The concrete, colourless and crude staircase of the Civil Secretariat building in the heart of th...

Civil Society: a New Threat for the Congress Party?

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The Congress Party has suddenly discovered a new threat in "Civil Society," not just t...

Communal Games of the 'Secular' Congress

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The Congress Party may think that by dividing the anti corruption movement and by tabling its own ...

Responses from Readers and Friends

avi

shubhkamna

aaj aapka web site dekha. kafi kam karti hain aap.. sada saksham rakhe vidhata. Swami Avimukteshwaranand.

Devdutt Modak

It makes you feel like staying and reading more

Your new site has much more jaan! At least the first page makes you feel like staying and reading more. It will have - to my mind - probably larger and longer impact than the paper journal could have had on its own. By all means revive the paper journal but even after you revive it in that medium keep this one going. T...

swati ramanathan

A very interesting website

Congratulations on a very interesting website. Thank you also for triggering the thoughtful discussion on the issue of legalising prostitution. Wish you even more strength and success in the coming years. Warmly Swati Ramanathan Co-Founder, Janaagraha Center for Citizenship & Democracy

Sankrant Sanu

Another Ruchika

I read the case of Pratima Singh on the Manushi website. (http://www.manushi.in/articles.php?articleId=143). This is another frightening misuse of power, much worse than the Ruchika/Rathore case. It really causes great anger. What is the way out of this circle of madness where the powerful can get away with virtually...

Harjot Kaur

Congrats

Congrats on the new website! I will try to contribute in as many ways possible to the website and this group. Well done and all the best, Warm regards,

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Women Bhakta Poets

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Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws

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Banayein Ajoobe, Kehlayein Pichhde!

Religion at the Service of Nationalism and Other Essays

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Gandhi and Women