Au revoir

Yes, time for me to row row row a boat.
Right out of here, I’m afraid.
What I’m trying to say Erimentha, God bless her, is retiring.
Those of you who know me will soon know where I’ll be writing after this. Those of you who don’t, just email me at blog.erimentha at gmail dot com, and I’ll [...]

Do you?

You know her. Or someone very like her.
She’s about 14, and maybe she’s your maid’s daughter.
Or maybe she lives in the flat next door, or the large house across the street.
She’s studying, your maid says proudly, she’s not going to be married off till she finishes her Intermediate, at least. Nowadays, even girls must [...]

To jolt me out of a stupor…

…it takes something like this. Just in case you aren’t the link-clicking type, this is what ‘Justice’s Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia of the Supreme Court of India have to say about the Janani Suraksha Yojana:
You cannot go on producing children and then make the taxpayer pay for it. We have to have some curb [...]

Why I read the Guardian

Because I find gems like this. Read Part I, too, and wait for Part III.

The politics of abortion - II

Part I of this piece reviewed the Indian law on the regulation of reproduction, and I ended up making the point that if the law were to be based on autonomy, it would decriminalise both abortion and the use of PNDTs. While I agree with Rohit’s statement that the best way to reduce female [...]