Shubhangi here writes about Japanese pop-culture and the concept of Kawaii – Kawaii means cute and cute seems to be the all pervading trend in Japan. She adds – The most popular fallout of Kawaii – the ‘Hello Kitty’ motif, adorns lunch boxes, clothes, office stationary, even kitchen appliances. Pink is the favorite color and… Continue reading What’s sauce for the goose
Category: Society & Development
Women’s rights, rural development, ICTs…
Working women
In Ranthambhore, water is everything. Animals big and small, predator and prey gather around the tiny water bodies that dot the forest. It is common to see peacocks and chinkara standing around the lake, their heads inside the water, as if friends gathered together for a drink after a long hard day at work. It… Continue reading Working women
The morning after
I read this piece on India Together – Morning-after pills seized in Chennai – a while ago, shook my head in disbelief, book-marked it and forgot about it. Yesterday, I read Harini’s posts on sex and sensibility – I try not to be judgemental about it – but there is something fundamentally wrong when a… Continue reading The morning after
Beasts of burden and bearers of wealth
Speaking of ads that make you sick, if I did have the option of tagging outdoor ads with “this sucks”, I know where I would start… with that serial on Zee TV which ran those terrible teasers all across Mumbai and Delhi last month which said among many other appalling things – “Bete ek mannat,… Continue reading Beasts of burden and bearers of wealth
On being a smartbahu
I was searching earlier on the net for something and came across a site called smartbahu and of course, I had to click on it. This is what the site says – Smartbahu.com – India’s 1st portal for the complete woman. What was that again – complete women = smart bahu (or is it the… Continue reading On being a smartbahu
Girl or boy?
Girl or boy?, originally uploaded by Wam Mosely. My blogger’s block has become more or less a permanent thing now. As if to make up, I am spending more and more time on flickr, mostly tring not to die of envy at the astounding talent I come across on that forum. And once in a… Continue reading Girl or boy?
Educate the girls…
I was recently going through a UNICEF report ‘The state of the world’s children‘ published in 2004 – the report focusses on the millenium develpoment goals, primarily universalisation of education and gender equality – to be achieved by 2015. From the foreword by Kofi Annan, Every boy and girl around the world has a right… Continue reading Educate the girls…
Double couple plan and skewed gender ratio
Lack of women turns tables on suitable boys, says a rather optimistic report on yahoo news. [link through anthropology.net] The report says that young men wanting to get married (and their parents) face a problem in finding girls – not surprising since the gender ratio in many districts is 922 girls for every 1,000 boys,… Continue reading Double couple plan and skewed gender ratio
Romeo and Eve on blank noise
Blank Noise has the blog-a-thon 2006 going, inviting stories and thoughts from people about the problem of street harassment. People, because men need to speak out on this as much as women do. I was waiting to attend the Blank Noise meet in Bombay before I posted on this. Some thoughts from there. The idea… Continue reading Romeo and Eve on blank noise
AIDS, adoption and ipods
A few things that have been disturbing me over the last week or so… random, casual lines heard or read, images that make me shudder every time I think of them, attitudes that make me despair… they pop up at inconvenient times, little imps that dance in my mind, those morsels I have not been… Continue reading AIDS, adoption and ipods