Category: Women in Hinduism & India

On sanitary napkins and innovation…

OR how the politics of subsidies kills the spirit of entrepreneurship… From NextBillion, comes this story by Rishabh Kaul of an extra-ordinary innovation that is being threatened by the politics of subsidies. …Last month,...

It does not stop at a whistle…

Sh Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party, quoted below in DNA): I don’t like to say this, but they* would be the women at whom youths would whistle… *women belonging to families of industrialists and...

Parliament Ka Zenana – Guest Post by M Balaji

Based upon the euphoric outpourings of the Indian media, all Indian women are supposedly thrilled about the Women’s Reservation Bill. It provides a historic opportunity to the women of India etc etc. I am...

Can a minor be converted to another religion?

Some of you may have already read the story of a recent, extraordinary judgement by the Kolkata High Court that involved the religious conversion of a minor: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (16th Dec)...

Will Shabana Azmi please speak up?

Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for alerting me to this extraordinary report of how Muslim women are being denied their freedoms…and the right to development by their own. Excerpts from Swaminathan S Aiyar’s  Anjumans...