Here, rape is for visas. Here, rape is deliberately brought upon the woman who rides off into the dark on the motorway. Even the police chief says so, twice. First when he was explaining the crime, and then when he was clarifying that he didn’t mean to victim-blame. Here, the under nineteen women’s cricket team […]
We are a society that sees the girl child as a burden, something to be deeply ashamed of, or to be indifferent towards. This prejudice pervades throughout South Asia, even across class structure, and is embedded not just in culture but in politics too. In 1972, when Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto were negotiating […]
1.5KSharesEvery woman who marries, courts, or holds some relation with a man who graduates from a male-only preparatory institute has to carefully separate the male-only part from the human parts of that man. The separation is no less complex than an aneurism extraction surgery and the tension is electric. Is he human or is he […]