Wow..as i write this i am very exhausted..the heat is killing and the day began yesterday! I arrived in Gulbarga at 4:30pm(23rd) last evening met up with Vani (Manager- Karnataka) who was already looking frazzled..We immediately left to fix up arrangements for today. After much haggling and negotiating we settled for shamianas and went to [...]
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I was surfing the TV channels on Sunday. This ad of Tanishq made me think about the status of women in the present scenario. Click on this ad and see the full ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfYLu_MhLQQ In scene 1 the elder male member of the family may be the father, tries to convince the girl for marriage [...]
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Of the six fundamental rights guaranteed to every Indian citizen under the constitution, right to culture and education is one. ‘Any section of the citizens residing in the territory of India or any part there of having a distinct language, script or culture of its own shall have the right to conserve the same”, says [...]
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Leaning back on my seat in the bus, on my way back home, I knew I was overwhelmed with mixed emotions. There was no one word that could define or describe my feelings and thoughts at that point, after spending four days, being an active part of the Bell Bajao campaign. In those four days, [...]
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Under the Indian Constitution, all citizens have been guaranteed ‘equality before the law’. Article 15 prohibits discrimination “on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth;” and Article 21, guarantees “protection of life and personal liberty”. To ensure these rights, in July’2009, the supreme court of India annulled Article 377 of the same [...]
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A woman is not allowed to do certain things because her “cultures does not allow it”. Be it working outside the house, wearing certain types of clothes or going to certain places, meeting certain people. Men maybe allowed to dominate women or abuse them physically and verbally because that is something that their “culture allows”. [...]
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She seemed to have all the time in the world to listen to me……….Every person related to me wanted either a boy or a girl but she wanted a child -a normal and healthy child
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The Video Van arrives in Mumbai !! Amid huge expectations and loads of anticipation,the video van arrived in Mumbai yesterday after weeks of anxiety and stress! Urvashi and I did 99 rounds of the Police Station in 3 days..from Traffic Police to the Commissioner of Mumbai… Charlie’s Angels left no stone unturned! ( Ojasvi included too ) [...]
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Yet a large number of societies and parents continue the practice of early marriage for several reasons including blind faith in culture or religion, hopes of financial and social gains, relieving their own responsibilities towards the child based on her gender and so on. In my view, the continuation of the practice is rooted in social acceptance of slavery of women. Internalization of servility and acceptance of the correctness of the practice is more likely to be successful if women are tamed early, as early as possible. Girl children and young adult women are easy to terrorize and therefore easier to be kept under control and by the time they could be expected to have developed some courage to protest, they are likely to be pregnant and socially isolated as a result of lacks of education and interaction with their peer groups. They are forced to accept their condition as their destiny. Many states and their governments, despite being signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, continue to turn a blind eye to the practice.
The article was first published by the Yemen Times: http://www.yementimes.com/defaultdet.aspx?SUB_ID=22147
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