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?... Continue Reading →

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,... Continue Reading →

and there were positive things happening ... only problem was that papers hardly reported them... I stopped writing on women's issues when for the first time 2 articles i wrote about positive developments were not published.... the victim image was fine.... Jailed - for demanding dowry FINALLY someone had the guts to do it. Daulat, a... Continue Reading →

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... Continue Reading →

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, it’s... Continue Reading →

The violence against women was terrifble....                                      Wife is not a slave 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,... Continue Reading →

  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 across... Continue Reading →

                                                                     SEX SURVEY In our June issue we described our reasons for commissioning the Debonair Sex Survey --- namely, a desire to know... Continue Reading →

THE SEX LIFE 0F INDIAN WOMEN  Many have asked, why this survey? The main reason was to find out what Indian women actually do and feel.  Many myths abound - “Indian women are…..”   “You are abnormal,”  “you should feel….” And based on these, they often carry a fear, or guilt complex wondering if they alone are... Continue Reading →

Sexuality ABOUT four years ago, an official for the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, spoke at the International AIDS conference in Montreal.   He maintained that ‘AIDS cannot, will not be a problem in Indian because we are a traditional society,’ because we unlike the decadent West, where the pill brought about a sexual... Continue Reading →