Equality. It means giving everyone (everyone implying humans, but in principle should apply to all living organisms) equal opportunities to exist and co-exist, without interfering or taking offense to the other’s way of life. Equality has many types – racial equality, cultural equality, judicial equality, political equality, economic equality, social equality, to name a … [Read more...]
Bodily Rights Please! Women Are Not Safe, But People Are More Worried About Tattoos.
Sometimes I wonder whether ‘God created Man or Man created God’. I guess both are true, but the second one always overpowers and makes the rules of the society. One such example is the recent incident in Bangalore, where a 21-year old Australian, Matthew Gordon, was threatened in public for his tattoo of a Hindu goddess, on his feet. Matthew and his girlfriend, Emily, were … [Read more...]
Stay Safe Women: I’m Confident To Travel Alone With These 4 Apps Up My Sleeve
Women in India have travelled a long way. From the secured confines of home, women have come out in the open to prove themselves. We find them in all walks of life, in all professions, no more restraining themselves to the traditional role of a homemaker only. In doing so, women need to move alone, literally in physical sense. Sometimes, in such situations she is vulnerable. … [Read more...]
A Teenager In A Short Dress On A Scooter And A Foreigner Were Harassed Because They Were ‘WEAK’
Gone are the days when women were thought to be weak and dumb, gone are the days when women were not allowed to work, gone are the days when their work area was confined to kitchen and household, gone are the days when women were subject to ‘sati pratha’, gone are the days when women were not allowed to take the lead. However, the days that are left behind are those where a … [Read more...]
Do Leggings Make A Woman Look Vulgar? Well, This Magazine Thinks So!
After a “fake or not” list of no-nos for girls in an engineering college in Chennai hit the internet, the Kumudam magazine has been slammed to cover a highly condemning story. Kumudam is a weekly, sensational Tamil magazine that has just covered a story on wearing leggings as an act of obscenity. The magazine asked the readers, ‘Are females out of line’. But this time the … [Read more...]
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