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Charlie
A few thoughts on the Paris attacks: On freedom of speech: Charlie Hebdo did not exist in a vacuum. The idea of freedom of speech as it exists in Europe, is that of an inalienable right. Under the...
11 Years Ago
The Animal Farm of the UPA
Animal Farm is an all time favourite book of mine. I first read it when I was 13 or 14 years old, and didn’t think much of it. The next time I read it, it was three years later and I could di…...
11 Years Ago
A History
The earliest I remember being molested is when I was about 9 years old. I was in a shop looking at some stationery, when an old man wandered past and pinched my (barely existent) nipples very hard.…...
11 Years Ago
(Un)Seeing Like A Feminist
So, I’ve been trying to read Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like A Feminist. However, one paragraph of the book I wish I could just un-see. On the Uniform Civil Code, she writes: “Shah B…...
11 Years Ago
The Politics of Insecurity
It bothers me that Hindutva, as a political creed, exists in India. Hindus are a large majority in India, and it stands to reason that sheer numbers alone should be reassuring that our way of life …...
11 Years Ago
The first Indian women physicians
Came across a wonderful article that chronicles the earliest Indian women who travelled abroad to the USA (perhaps alone?) to study medicine. Considering that all this happened in the late 1800s, a…...
11 Years Ago
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