There was a time that I went every year to the Himalayas..... but wrote about it only once.... now i wish i had follwed Krishnamurthys advice... that write every day... or at least once a week... that a way at least you have some idea about your life..... Finding these articles and getting them typed... Continue Reading →

There was this period when I was involved in the womens 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... Continue Reading →

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... Continue Reading →

another one on the 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.  ... Continue Reading →

 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... Continue Reading →

Women started doing many different things..all the talk about rape, had women going for karate, for self defence.......... and this increased their confidence.... i remember I too went for karate classes....not that I could do much kicking........ freaked out when we had to lie on the floor and had other students run on our stomachs....... Continue Reading →

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,... Continue Reading →

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... Continue Reading →

The husbands have started organizing.  So strong women; independent women; wives who are not going to take it lying down each time; women who have had enough of being based over; wives who are called “hen-peckers”-watch out. Describing themselves as “bullied and harassed husbands”.  A forum called “Pati-Manch” (husbands” forum) has been formed in Kanpur,... Continue Reading →

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 →