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Here are your “hot cross links” for the week!
A little dash of appreciation can work like magic on human beings. Writer and blogger Kim seems to have understood this as she celebrates all women bloggers who “kick some ass”!
From circular saws to windshield wipers here is an interesting list of the top ten things that women invented.
Feminists with an ear for music of the 70’s and 80’s will find lots to explore at Women’s Liberation Music Archive. This blog has an extensive collection of videos, information and links that relate to the WML movement.
“Perhaps this is the ultimate gift of feminism, that the personal is in fact the political” says Kavita Ramdas, Director of Global Fund for women in her TED talk that unveils women of a whole new calibre who are truly radical and inspirational.
“It’s a hard job being an Indian feminist” explains Jaded16 at the Fbomb.
Here’s an insightful interview with Christina Hoff Sommers on The future of feminism.
And finally, check out this wonderful list of 15 books every feminist must read at Feministing.
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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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Falling in love, marriage, a hidden secret, divorce. Despite all this, Vinita noticed her life was full of love that came in various unexpected shades!
“Aap jinke kareeb hotey hain, woh badey kush naseeb hotey hain…”
Just as Vinita was settling down into the cab seat, the driver put on music and the song started to play. It took her back immediately to that evening ten years ago, when Gautam had sung that very same song to her on the first evening they had met. She could remember every single detail of that evening so very clearly.
The driver obliged and immediately stopped the bus for them. Many men got down. They shamelessly lined up just by the side of the bus and peed on the other side of the road.
I work in Pune. My family lives far away from me in a small town along the coast of Konkan. I get to meet them once every fortnight for which I have to take a nine-hour long overnight bus journey.
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. (more…)
Srijata Saikia examines the prism of women’s lives through their interpersonal relationships and the result is some pretty evocative writing.
Every month, we choose 3 exceptional contributors to feature as Author of the month. Srijata Saikia is among the 3 authors of the month in September 2017. You can see her writing on Women’s Web here.