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Research… I question everything,,,. so obviously research was my career choice…. Research provided me with a way of entering lives which I never rwould have entered… took me away from the office and a desk… and making my perspective wider…Let’s explore

Journalism… writing about things as they were happening…a quick snapshot of a soceity in motion… what was happening with the socalled womens question? What did girls… sorry women talk about in the 1980s….get a glimpse

My Latest Posts

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  • Women- Worst Victims of Famine

    The beginig of my dissilusion of the womens movement, which I began calling the so called women’s movement, or women’s movement in quotation marks……….. Worst victims of famine What does famine — due to drought and floods which are currently affecting over 200 million people in India— means to the women of those devastated areas?…

  • Women Chipkos hug a tree

      Women protecting their environment showed us that it was the grass roots where innovative actions were occuring … and we urban women needed to support such actions………..           Women ‘Chipkos’ on the march! THE women sight a forest contractor coming.  From the foothills of the mountains they begin to beat their drums and sing…

  • Wife is not for beating….nor is she a slave

    The violence against women was terrifbl                                      GOMITI SHAH, A 2-22-YEAR OLD WAS MARRIED TO a Gujarati Marwari, six years ago. Five months after her marriage she went back to her parent’s house, with complaints that she could no longer stand the violence to which she was subjected.  She stayed with her parents in the…