Comment on the Sexual Harassment Bill

It’s up on the website of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, and comments are to be submitted before the end of the month.
I will be writing about what I think of it; but if you have a comment / suggestion but can’t be bothered to write to the Ministry yourself, leave it in [...]

So, what’s this year going to be like?

Today’s Ugadi, see? So the question. In spite of living alone (or maybe because of it?) I tend to do all the traditionally right things to do on festival days. Wake up early, have a “head bath”, make pachchadi and prasadam, the works.
So, Ugadi pachchadi. For those of you who don’t know, it’s made of [...]

Inspired by a limerick-athon*

Has anyone noticed how the weather
Is running about hither and thither
The afternoons bake and while the nights don’t chill
They do tell us summer isn’t here still
And it’s bringing me to the end of my tether!
——–
Long long days of evaluation
Are followed by yet more examination
Setting papers and correcting them
Coming across an occassional gem
The lows and highs of teaching [...]

Feminism 101

Here.
Pointing people to resources is much better than trying to spout my own version of gyan! Except, it doesn’t talk about Indian feminism. Sigh.

The celebration that almost wasn’t

I promised to write a celebratory post for Blank Noise, talking about the times when I’ve fought back, raised my voice, done something, about street harassment. So I thought and thought and thought, and I realise that my fund of memories of fighting back is scarily scarce.
There was the time I shouted abuse at the [...]

And…

… to make up for having disappeared for so long, I’m posting for the second time today.
No, I haven’t resumed the feminism series yet, but I will. In the meanwhile, reading this (which I discovered through Feministe) sort of put that series in context. Ilyka says a lot of the stuff that I wanted to say to [...]

Blanking blankety blank blank

Is the usual reaction to street harassment, isn’t it? Muttered under your breath, sometimes shouted aloud? Well, last year, Blank Noise organised a blogathon on Women’s Day (8th March), asking people to write about their experience of harassment. The posts took me all week to finish reading - partly because there were so many of [...]