'On Tuesday, AAP party workers protested outside the MLA's house with regard to his sexist remarks against Alka Lamba. Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker, O P Sharma was suspended from the Delhi assembly for making derogatory and sexist remarks about Aam Aadmi Party MLA, Alka Lamba on Tuesday. The Hindustan Times quotes the MLA's remarks as "Ye toh Raat Bhar ghumne wali”.
'Reacting to Aamir Khan's statement about intolerance, BJP MLA Satish Mahana from Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh suggested that perhaps Aamir's wife Kiran Rao wanted to be strip-searched in an airport in America, reported NavBharat Times. Perhaps, Mahana was referring to the incidents where people are strip-searched in airports to check if anyone is hiding any illegal substances.
'The age old practice of shunning menstruating women from temples has been placed effectively under the scanner now by a 20 year old Facebook campaigner named Nikita Azad. Support for her is snowballing into a massive drive. Her campaign ‘#HappyToBleed’ was started in response to a priest of Sabarimala temple in Kerala who said that they will allow women to enter the temple, only after a machine is invented to detect which of them are menstruating. “There will be a day when a machine is invented to scan if it is the 'right time' (not menstruating) for a woman to enter the temple.”
'Liberal, rebellious and progressive to the core, Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), enfant terrible of Urdu literature, fought parochialism all her life. She led from the front and lived by her own principles. One of her daughters was married to a Hindu while the other was married to a Parsi. She didn't consume beef, not because of the Hindutva diktat, but to respect the sentiments of her Hindu grandson. And when she died she was cremated at Chandanwadi because she had willed so.
'Human resource development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani on Friday found herself in a spot when her remarks that women in the country are not told what to wear, whom to meet and where to go, drew voices of dissent from an audience she was addressing. "In India I don't think any woman is dictated what to wear, how to wear, whom to meet, when to meet....I am of the opinion I don't think anybody is dictated here, you are not told," she said while interacting with New Yorkbased journalist Tina Brown at an event in New Delhi...'
'Pan Nalin’s internationally-acclaimed film Angry Indian Goddesses on female bonding and combating patriarchal tyranny, has encountered an expected snag. The Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) has objected strongly to what they see as profane references to Hindu goddesses. Says a source, “Major portions of the film have been hacked off by the Examining Committee.
'Pan Nalin’s internationally-acclaimed film Angry Indian Goddesses on female bonding and combating patriarchal tyranny, has encountered an expected snag. The Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) has objected strongly to what they see as profane references to Hindu goddesses. Says a source, “Major portions of the film have been hacked off by the Examining Committee.
As UK academics researching development in India, we are deeply concerned about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to the UK from 12-14 November, and call for the human rights abuses on his watch to be questioned in the public domain (Opinion, 10 November).
'Last year, just before Narendra Modi's victory in India's general election, I had written in an article, Gender violence and Narendra Modi, about what life might be like in the country if he were elected. Now, some eighteen months later, it is clear that my fears were more than justified. If the run up to the election was horrifying in its violence, today things are infinitely worse.
'I heard PM Narendra Modi talking at the Gold Monetisation scheme launch a few days ago. I couldn’t help but observe that he was making terrible blunders, one after the other in his speech. By the time the speech ended, I was really cringing and wondering how the PM can speak like this at a national level. So what did he do wrong? Well, he used gendered language to begin with.
