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Now that there were small women groups all over the country more and more examples of the problems face by women were being investigated ….. JUST what is going on in government-run girls’ hostels? This question is being asked in reference to the mysterious death of a DALIT GIRIJAN HIGH SCHOOL student. A women’s group,…

BLOODY RED ROSE! THERE was a group of women standing outside Oscar theatre.   Andheri, distributing leaflets against the film Red Rose.   Some people laughed, some jeered, but after reading the cyclostyled leaflet which called for the banning of the film insisted that the management take back the tickets that they had bought. A young student…

I came across an old falling apart book whilst moving from one city to another….a file carried through 40 years unlooked at, unread, unseen. And then one day I opened it and read what I had been writing 40 years ago. It was interesting, giving a picture of some of the things that I wrote…

There was this period when I was involved in the women’s movement and Forum against oppression of women when I wrote a lot about womens issues…gender issues. Had a column in Blitz I think called SHE It started with Rape, and the MAthura case, where the SUpreme Court overturned the conviction of 2 police men…

There were cabaret shows and girls dancing in clubs all over Mumbai at that time…. a freind of a freind of a freind had a night club and I went several nights to the club, had some of the girls come out to lunch, and learnt about their lives………….. always liked meeting people who were…

IN MOST Western countries, the right to safe abortion on demand has been one of the main rallying points for the women’s movement.  Abortion – a woman’s right to choose, a woman’s right to her own body – is a women’s issue, discussed and fought for by organized women.  But in India, even before we…

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…