Section 377 is against the Right to Equality
We would rather be in jail for holding the Indian Supreme Court in contempt, instead of being complicit with institutionalised homophobia
Deccan Chronicle / Asian Age / December 2013 / [Pdf , 33.9 KB]
poet & writer
We would rather be in jail for holding the Indian Supreme Court in contempt, instead of being complicit with institutionalised homophobia
Deccan Chronicle / Asian Age / December 2013 / [Pdf , 33.9 KB]
Namdeo Dhasal has left behind words that will outlast his political trajectory. Remembering the iconic Marathi poet and writer
Tehelka / January 2014
The Badaun and Bhagana gang rapes of minor Dalit girls come to us as stark reminders of not only the horror expected where sexual violence meets caste atrocity, but also to lay bare the nature of the state machinery that protects the accused.
India Today / June 2014
The cultural sanction of rape in India must stop, and the state has to speak.
Outlook / January 2013
On child sexual abuse. And why, legislation alone cannot save women trapped in a patriarchal culture . . .
India Today / April 2013
(you will know when you have been long enough on the internet dear)
DNA / March 2013 / [Pdf , 40.2 KB]
In a house of slamming doors and broken dreams, there are no kisses. Only the confidence of silent curtains. (First person account of domestic violence & marital rape)
Outlook / March 2012
Global corporate love and its spawn, today’s sex surveys, just mimic our Kamasutra-vintage caste structures
Outlook / December 2011
Indian politics has woefully failed to address women's issues
Prospect Magazine / April 2014
On SlutWalk, and how militant assertion of female sexuality can change Indian men
Tehelka / May 2011
Guwahati molestation incident has shown the Indian male at his worst.
India Today / July 2012
Would our Hindu moral police and culture saviours revive the attire of the Chola bronzes?
Outlook / August 2012
Interview with A.Lokeesan, TamilNet.com's chief correspondent in Vanni during Eelam War IV
Kindle Magazine / September 2012
Half-hearted gestures by Indian/Tamil Nadu politicians and foreign policy diplomats for Eelam Tamils, the watery UN resolution included, serves them ill
Outlook / March 2013
Caste has survived because of its atrocities, literally over the dead bodies of lynched lovers, over charred Dalit settlements, through the use of organized violence to enforce and maintain superordination and subordination. Caste is the colourful poison.
Himal South Asian / April 2010 / [Pdf , 28.8 KB]
Open letter to Young India, callous and comfy in its cocoon //Unrest simmers all over society, but as you are extremely busy hanging out in some shopping mall, you have no time to tell your government to behave. How can you talk to power?
Outlook / October 2011
In the shadow of the Hyderabad Beef Festival: Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef?
Outlook / April 2012
What happened in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district is not merely anti-Dalit caste hatred, but also the most vicious form of sexual oppression of women. Almost every single home was burnt and looted. A report from the cindered remains of their homes.
Rediff / November 2012
The PMK’s cult of anti-Dalit hatred led to Dharmapuri Ilavarasan’s death. And the world looks on with aloofness.
Outlook / July 2013
A people's struggle against the quarry mafia in the Western Ghats, and the regular ingredients: police brutality, red scare, corrupt politicians
Malayalam Varika / April 2014 / [Pdf , 78.3 KB]
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