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Url:http://ultraviolet.in
Author(s):Anindita Sengupta, Aparna V Singh, Meena Kandasamy, Facebook User
Language:English
Tags:feminism, indian feminists, women
Description:A place for Indian feminists
Ratings (11 Ratings)
Popularity:145 Followers

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Of fatigue and forgetting
YESTERDAY, I WAS LOOKING at this report released by the World Economic Forum last month, and I started drafting a post with some excerpts. Just to make it easier for people who don’t want to ...more
2009-12-01
Thoughts on Eve Ensler’s “I am an Emotional Creature”
THE AUDIENCE WAS FLUSH WITH estrogen, but had a heartening dose of the Y chromosome. I wondered if the cocktail reception that preceded the event was a marketing ploy or a genuine attempt to fortif...more
2009-11-18
Dirty Picture
By Sanyukta SahaIQBAL HASAN’S PAINTING of a young woman sitting on a chair with an older woman standing beside her makes for the cover of Anuradha Marwah’s third and latest novel Dirty Pict...more
2009-11-16
Storm in a T-Cup & The Language of Experience
PENELOPE TRUNK CAUSED A tremendous controversy when she Tweeted about her miscarriage (and the fact that she was glad she didn’t have to wait for an abortion, which is difficult to get in her part ...more
2009-11-08
Two poems
By Lalit NarayanMiscarriageA curtain of rain separatesMy verandah from the hospital.On any other day a hundredSilent patients would pass throughThe OP clinic. Each of themAllowing us doctors to lis...more
2009-10-29
Becoming Woman
ALL I KNEW WAS that this non-profit group called MARAA was organising some sort of performance on gender and sexuality. A friend told me about it and even offered to pick me up. Work lay unfinished...more
2009-10-25
Single in the City
By Ramapriya GopalakrishnanLeafing through pictures mailed by a friend, I find one of me on the beach laughing uninhibitedly with my hair streaming in the wind, and I smile to myself thinking ‘this...more
2009-10-22
Two poems by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
To Get Myself Some Water~Translated from Ellen Lai’s ‘Grassland’, written in ChineseOur love toils about one period.On the bloody and lusty grasslandYou transform me into your sel...more
2009-10-15
The Women’s Reservation Bill – Empowerment or Besides the Point?
By Martin Lehmann-WaldauThe Indian parliament recently showed intense activity to promote women’s representation in decision-making bodies. Some months back, a bill was passed that reserves a stagg...more
2009-10-14
Time to listen to her voice
By Deborah Herbert of Population FirstAs the day of voting for the Assembly elections approaches, the political parties have been making their achievements and plans known to the voters of Maharash...more
2009-10-13

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Anindita SenguptaSep 17, 2008

There's a great discussion on marriage happening at UV. Come and join.
 
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