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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

  • 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…

  • Who Needs Men??

    And also a look at alternatives in living………….                                                            WHO NEEDS MEN   ? Leela Namdeo, 27, and Urmilla Srivastava, 19, are part of the women’s company, 23rd Battalion, of the police (Special Armed Forces).   It is the first women’s company in the country (the only other is in Kerala).   Both were set up only in…

  • Verbal rape

    A woman is walking down the street.  Suddenly from behind her she hears a nasty comment.  Something obscene.  Some vulgar notices.  Pursing of the lips.  That weird kissing sound.  And immediately one’s insides churn.  I feel angry.  Helpless.  Disgusted.  Hopeless.  I daren’t even say “shut up “in case it creates an incident. I wonder, maybe,…

  • mandalas

  • The first I think youth festival….Malavali

    And that article made me a writer….. I became a correspondent for the youth magazine Junior Statesman (which jug Suraiya has written about in a newly published book,) It was a period of writing about artists, music, just about anything….. Desmond Doig was an editor par excellence… he would meet us in the Mumbai Statesman…

  • Suicide and in jail- Who is Guilty?

    The newspapers brought news items tucked away in the internal pages of the conditions and plights of the poor women, especially rural ones……  my earlier involvement with Front for Rapid Economic Advancement of India (FREA) where we were involved with rural development had sesitised me to rural India….I had travelled all over India developing projects…

  • Thought Drops by Deesh Mariwalla

  • Stirrings against Oppression

     And then there were womens groups everywhere…. a spontaneous thing…noone went around talking, organising…. Stirrings against Oppression In 1980, on March 8, International Women’s Day, there were marches, demonstrations and meetings in various cities of India, focusing on the issue of rape in the country and injustices in the law relating to rape. The initiative…

  • Lacunane in Rape Law

    LACUNANE IN RAPE LAW The issue of rape has become one of the central concerns of the women’s lib movement abroad.   Seen as the ultimate of the male’s attempt to dominate woman, both physically and psychologically, women in the West are getting together to fight against this social evil.   It takes various forms: learning self-defence…