I spoke with a friend of mine a few days back. She’d been having a tough time dealing with college, social life et al and wanted to talk about it. Turns out, a bunch of people from her class had been actioned (and all too gleefully) badmouthing her. I won’t go into details about all the spiteful remarks, but the gist of it all was that she was very closed in, talked to people … [Read more...]
The ‘slut’ culture in colleges of India – And we say we are educated people!
We Indians love talking about issues related to women like empowerment, feminism, their safety, taking a stand against rape and things like that. But when it comes to the practicality aspect of all this, everything goes into the gutter. We see youngsters coming out from colleges to protest against injustice done to women, be it Nirbhaya or any other incident for that matter. … [Read more...]