Vrinda Grover is a feminist-activist, women’s rights advocate, and an eminent human rights lawyer. In a distinguished career she has taken up several public interest cases, including the Maliana-Hashimpura case...
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
FEBRUARY 2013
FEBRUARY 2013
Cover Story and Featured Stories
The Jaipur meet is evidence that for Rahul Gandhi this is not a path strewn with roses
Sadiq Naqvi Jaipur
The new Congress vice-president will find it very hard to overthrow vested interests
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
The ‘Laxman rekhas’ can no longer appear ‘natural’ – each of them is being met with defiance
and resistance
Kavita Krishnan Delhi
A thousand new stories have taken wing. Hopefully, these will be resurgent new mythologies, transforming women’s tomorrows
Ratna Raman Delhi
The challenge before us is: after all the public transport in our cities is fitted with GPS systems and CCTVs, all the tinted film removed, all drivers, conductors and cleaners screened, and all PCR vans are on 24-hour alert, how do we neutralise the cultures of masculinism that are bred in our families, stalk our streets?
Ritu Menon Delhi
Haneke directs Amour in his characteristic austere, objective and disturbing style, yet his unsentimental look is not unsympathetic
Sonali Ghosh Sen Kolkata
Madiha Gauhar dwells upon the struggle and dilemmas of a political theatre group in conversation with Ritu Sinha in Delhi
The idea of rape is implicit in ideologies of nationalism and community. This becomes explicit in rapes that occur during communal riots, or in ethnic conflicts, where rape plays the same role as mutilation of the soldiers’ bodies at the LoC
Karen Gabriel Delhi
When men in uniform rape, they act with impunity. They can get away with it again and again. Perhaps there is no greater cause of the Maoist conflict and insurgency in the Northeast than the injustice of unpunished rapes and killings
Felix Padel Jaipur
In this year of horrors and crony capitalism, ‘industrialists’ prospered who managed huge acquisition of State-owned natural resources, long-term concessions and huge lines of credit from State-owned banks
Mohan Guruswamy Delhi
Despite the hawks on TV channels, it would be dangerous to let the LoC incident snowball — especially with elections nearing
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
More Stories from this Issue
It’s like The Tao of Cricket, another of his best-selling books; now, it tells a twisted IPL tale of how cricket has been turned into an obscenely cash-rich magic potion, like much of ‘mainstream’ hedonism in current times
Amit Sengupta Delhi
The dramatic events that preceded the change-of-guard are a classic testimony to how subservient is the BJP’s relationship with the RSS. With Hindutva terror in focus, the RSS needs to generate enough heat to stop the net from closing in
Poornima Joshi Delhi
West or East, it seems that the plight of many women worldwide is depressing. In Europe, at least 45 per cent of women face physical abuse, and 10 per cent have suffered sexual abuse at some stage in their lives. European Union figures show that at least 1,000 women die every year due to domestic violence. For the same reason, European countries continue to struggle to put domestic violence at the centre of all reforms of national policies.
I’ve been wondering all along why the BJP repeatedly disrupts proceedings in Parliament and forces adjournments. At first I thought it was because they’re plain lazy, or perhaps they’re just being spiteful to the nation because the majority of voters hadn’t thought them worthy enough to be in a position of power. But now, thanks to a thought-provoking speech by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, I have seen the light.
As a teenager in the Lucknow of the mid-’70s, I recall cycling once to the older part of the city famous for Awadhi cuisine and high culture. Accompanied by a friend who claimed to know the area well, we set out on a quest to find Lucknow’s famous red light locality. “That’s where we have to go,” my friend gestured enthusiastically towards a dark lane choked with the random clutter of small-time traffic.