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A collection of interesting stories about women this week.
Bon appetit! For this week’s quota of the choicest articles, interviews and links is set on a platter for you!
Acclaimed Feminist and founder of Kali for Women, Urvashi Butalia’s interview at Granta explores in detail her views on feminism and shares some interesting information about the world of transsexuals.
Read the first part of the interview with gender activist Rita Banerji on misogyny in our society and making sensible decisions for a safe life for every Indian girl.
Whether you are an ardent listener of great speeches or just trying to learn the art of speaking these 23 famous speeches given by great women is sure to whet your interest.
Here’s a beautiful tale of not just cross continental love between two human beings but a story of an Australian girl’s discovery of whole new world- India.
Which is the most feminist country in the world? Iceland!
The Indian Homemaker is here with a thought-provoking compilation of gruesome stories of harassment of girls in recent times.
Women at work in India bring to mind the caricature of ants toiling their lives away after one glance through this report in the Harvard Business Review, which says that 87% percent of Indian women are stressed all the time. Reasons? Conventional family norms, inadequate infrastructure and much more.
“I think we’d all agree it would be better if we had the whole picture,” concludes reporter Megan Kamerick in her TED talk ‘Women should represent women in media’ . She opines that the “whole picture” can be constructed only if media coverage of critical women’s issues is handled exclusively by women.
*Photo credit: The Hindu
Aishwarya Rajamani is an undergraduate student by day and a writer otherwise. She reads passionately and dreams like an utopian idealist. And she wishes for a world where women can walk free in the true read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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