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Census 2011 reveals the shocking gender bias with child sex ratio of 914. It’s the lowest-ever since independence. It was 927 in 2001 and 976 in 1961. However, since then it has declined drastically. The overall sex ratio had increased to 940...
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The fascist outfits with dogmatic attitudes are at it again........for moral policing. This time they have come out against the young ladies in Maharashtra. If they...
made popular Sep 1 2010
Dear Prospective Grooms,
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet. I had no wife and complained, and then I got one who ruined my life.
You...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Dear Terrorists,
I know that you will be surprised to receive this letter from an Indian against the fact that India is dead against terrorism and we do not believe in...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Iranian police have warned shopkeepers not to display female mannequins without a hijab, or showing bodily curves, Irna news agency reports.
Display of bow ties and...
made popular Sep 23 2009
n Iran, women have made remarkable strides in education in the last decades — 65 percent of college undergraduates are female and 70 percent of graduate students...
made popular Sep 10 2009
Two cases have been where lives were lost as the husband failed to accept the truth. We all know that reality bites and is really hard. Hence the truth must be...
made popular Aug 21 2009
The new chief executive of one of Japan’s larger companies sat up late into the night recently puzzling over the accounts. He simply could not work out why there...
made popular Aug 8 2009
Ahmedabad, March 02: In a fit of rage, a woman allegedly castrated her husband’s genitals while he was asleep in his home in the Amraiwadi area of the city,...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Dare to wear…Don’t you dare wear jeans if you happen to be studying at any of the Kanpur women’s college! It’s the 21st century and still girls...
made popular Jun 13 2009
It is really shocking that in today’s situation some colleges in UP have prohibited girls wearing jeans inside campus. This is simply prejudice. It cannot be...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Two weeks ago I was watching a program, on Lok Sabha TV on Gender Discourse. It was a TV Discussion on misuse of dowry laws. Save Family Foundation’s Secretary, Mr....
made popular May 21 2009
Females don’t have a fighting chance in Taliban-infested areas of Afghanistan. They are expected to be neither seen nor heard from. I’m sure the whole...
made popular May 12 2009
There’s always something bizarre coming out of Saudi Arabia. It would be laughable if it wasn’t for the fact that these occurrences adversely affect women,...
made popular May 6 2009
While one might think Kuwait is far more progressive than countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, there are still certain elements there that want to keep women...
made popular May 5 2009
Saudi women are finally standing up against the repression they face in their society. And their public stand is more personal than driving: lingerie.
[They call it...
made popular Mar 28 2009
A recent study by the Family Violence and Prevention Fund has once again shown that the United States is still one of the most misogynistic nations in the world.
A...
made popular Mar 26 2009
Increasing number of eve teasing in urban places in India compelled the local authorities to take a serious look into the problem. The growing instances of the murders,...
made popular Mar 18 2009
Where in the Qu’ran does it say shopping is haram (prohibited) for women? Because apparently the Taliban seem to think it is. They’ve banned women from...
made popular Mar 18 2009
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The persistence of hunger and abject poverty in India and other parts of the world is due in large measure to the subjugation, marginalization and dis-empowerment of...
made popular Mar 12 2009
The lives of women over the past few decades is the same. But men are still considered second-class woman creature, able only to the role of housewife, mother and wife....
made popular Mar 12 2009
The world celebrated International Women’s Day yesterday - 8th March. A question may arise - How far has the status of women changed in modern and post-modern...
made popular Mar 10 2009
The cases of female foeticide in affluent families of the Punjab’s villages is a slap on the face of those who believe that wealthy homes are embodiments of lofty...
made popular Mar 5 2009
There is no equality for women in Islamic states, as much as people want to proclaim there is; particularly under the penal code. A woman is worth half that of a man....
made popular Mar 5 2009
The Background: The Indian constitution was enacted on 26th of November, 1949. It is the supreme law of the land. It lays down the framework defining fundamental...
made popular Mar 4 2009
There were three news reports in the newspaper last week which troubled my conscience. First, The editor Ravindra Kumar and publisher Anand Sinha of ‘The...
made popular Feb 27 2009
“She did it, despite being a woman”, have we not heard this statement quite often. It has been so deeply engrained in our thoughts and psyches that whenever we see...
made popular Feb 24 2009
Women, role models of Indian society, can be counted on the fingers. Most of them are Muslims such as Razia Sultana and Sania Mirza. Not that women having Hindu beliefs...
made popular Feb 11 2009
While many women in India and Pakistan have achieved success and freedom in the spheres of career and politics, the average woman in both countries is still in the...
made popular Dec 27 2008
“I screamed at him, ‘You’re an animal!’ ” said Shaimaa Abdel Rahman Aref, 28, a graduate business student. “I felt as if he was...
made popular Dec 19 2008
Two days ago, I heard a deafening scream from my neighborhood but I was not quick to run out and catch up with what was happening.
Moments later the screams intensified...
made popular Dec 11 2008
The oppression of men is an extremely complex phenomenon to understand. It has always been hidden, disguised, indirect, Innumerous, severe, carefully conspired and...
made popular Dec 10 2008
In an interesting case of an almost sudden burst of discontent, a young Afghan man left his house and family in Hangu and fled to Peshawar in the NWFP province of...
made popular Nov 20 2008
“First I killed my nine month old daughter by strangling her, everyone thought that she had died of illness”.
“Than on Wednesday I took my 7 year old...
made popular Nov 8 2008
When a question comes on us asking, how India treats its women? The answer falls back. A woman is known in India for her culture. And our culture is considered rich,...
made popular Nov 6 2008
Sixty-six women are attacked with acid in 9 years from 1999 to 2008 and there is suddenly a huge hue and cry to get a law against acid attacks. Well this act is by no...
made popular Oct 23 2008
The son which failed to shine. Too much of water spoils the crops too much of love & care stunts the growth of children & cripples them.
I see this...
made popular Oct 13 2008
I was shocked to read in today’s paper that a girl wishes to auction her virginity on line to fund her university education
In India prostitutes are known to demand a...
made popular Sep 13 2008
She is the Kenyan Iron Lady; Martha Wangari Karua
Martha Karua told Kenyans not to take her opponents seriously. Although they had dismissed her interest in the race,...
made popular Sep 12 2008
The phenomenon of female suicide bombers is a gender thing, and the burqa plays an important role in it. The Islamic traditional female garb that cloaks the entire body...
made popular Sep 5 2008
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