Women

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Pakistan

How Fatima Jinnah Women’s University Pimps students for Honey trapping careers

In Pakistan these days, anything is possible!Fatima Jinnah Women’s University [http://fjwu.edu.pk/] had an interesting advertisement earlier this year in August to recruit for honey-trapping work. Now, honey-trapping is a well-known technique in intelligence and espionage. It has been employed from time immemorial. However, it is

Desh Kapoor

30 Oct 19 3 min read

Pakistan

Policeman slaps female journalist in Pakistan when exposed

Pakistan has been trying to paint India black on human rights and civil liberties. But the moment you point the light at their society you know that it is at the bottom of the barrel. No country is as uncouth and horrendously pathetic when it comes to treating women as

Desh Kapoor

02 Sep 19 1 min read

Pakistan

How the Sick and Vile Maulana Manzoor Mengal responds to #AuratMarch2019 movement in Pakistan

Aurat March is a is a women empowerment movement that has started in Pakistan where women are asking for economic justice, reproductive justice, right to their cities, villages and towns, and environmental justice. The women are not just doing peace rallies, or demonstrating with some placards or sloganeering for women

Desh Kapoor

20 Mar 19 3 min read

Issues

Sajid Khan – The Abusive Psychopath needs Jail, Not Atonement!

Saloni Chopra begged him [https://medium.com/@salonichopra/after-all-the-years-of-silence-heres-metoo-9818ebac15e2] to just let her “fuck him”, so Sajid Khan could “back off afterwards” and stop abusing and messing her up. You are so “naive and stupid”, he yelled. “This wasn’t about sex, it was about me being his little bitch

Desh Kapoor

17 Oct 18 4 min read

Issues

Sexual Predator Vinod Dua’s ‘Bar in a Car’ abuse of Nishita Jain and Twitter Backs Dua

Film maker Nishita Jain accused yesteryears TV anchor turned fake news peddler at thewire, Vinod Dua of sexual abuse. Her story of how not only Vinod Dua stalked her but also cornered her to force herself on her is heart breaking. Sexual Predator Vinod Dua's 'Bar in a Car' abuse

Desh Kapoor

15 Oct 18 1 min read

Religion

Bishop Gropes Ariana Grande on Stage at celebrated Gospel Singer’s Funeral

During the funeral service for Aretha Franklin, Bishop Charles H Ellis III openly groped the famous singer and actress Ariana Grande on stage. Aretha was known as the “Queen of Soul” – for her gospel music. This tweet shows additional pictures of the despicable deed of the Bishop. > #RespectAriana [https://twitter.

Desh Kapoor

01 Sep 18 1 min read

United States of America

May God Save the God Enslaved by Sexual Predators

On Monday, Bill O’Reilly, the Fox Anchor and the person who has done not one but several multi-million dollar sexual harrassment settlements lamented about how “God” is not protecting him enough [http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/23/media/bill-oreilly-misconduct-allegations/]. > “You know, am I mad at God? Yeah, I’

Desh Kapoor

24 Oct 17 4 min read

Pakistan

#TryBeatingMeLightly: Pakistani Women Stand up to Abusive Women Protection Bill!

In Quran’s Surah An-Nisa (The Women), there is a verse which says that if a woman is not obedient enough, then men can “strike them”. The modern commentators interpret this verse to put in the qualifier “strike lightly”. Who decides what is “lightly” however, is left unsaid. 4:34

Desh Kapoor

01 Jun 16 4 min read

Europe

Indian rapes and German rapes: a tale of Neo-Imperialism

We have talked about the unethical ways of the documentary – India’s Daughter – made about the Indian girl who was raped brutally in a moving bus. All sane and normal policies of depiction of death and rape in Europe in general and in particular in UK were jettisoned! Why was

Desh Kapoor

19 Mar 15 6 min read

India

India’s Daughter: Voyeurism as Journalism to Shame a Nation

Days after the launch of the movie “50 Shades of Grey” the world over, where BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism) erotic practices are shown – a movie and a story where women are depicted akin to sex slaves to a rich handsome guy, we have in India and the world,

Desh Kapoor

11 Mar 15 7 min read

History

India’s Daughter: Ok, We are Outraged, Indian Men are Devils Incarnate with Medieval Mindset… now WHAT?!!

“A trial by press, electronic media or public agitation is the very antithesis of rule of law” stated India’s Supreme Court in State of Maharashtra v. Rajendra J. Gandhi [(1997) 8 SCC 386]. This goes to the heart of a democratic society as opposed to a banana republic. The

Desh Kapoor

08 Mar 15 13 min read

Relationships

Logic Framework to test the Question: Why do beautiful women marry unattractive men and good looking men marry beautiful women?

Some people have this idea that although Good-looking women marry not so good looking men, Good looking men do marry good looking women. But is that true? Here is an interesting mathematical argument. Read Gayle Laakmann McDowell [https://www.quora.com/Gayle-Laakmann-McDowell]‘s [https://www.quora.com/Why-do-good-looking-women-often-marry-men-who-are-way-less-good-looking-while-good-looking-men-often-marry-good-looking-women/answer/Gayle-Laakmann-McDowell]

Desh Kapoor

19 Mar 13 1 min read

India

Is it safe for a single American woman to travel in India?

Due to the recent spate in rapes in India, there has come about a question mark on how safe women are in India when they travel alone. Specifically for an American woman, or any foreign woman in general. Here is a very interesting and detailed answer to that question. Read

Desh Kapoor

15 Feb 13 1 min read

Women

New Sexual Assault Law: Without Consent, Sex is Rape

The new Sexual Assault law is being criticized in a lot of areas, but some of its provisions may bring cheer for women. It puts the decision for sex being consensual on the victim squarely. If the victim says it was not consensual, it wasn’t. > On consent for sex,

Desh Kapoor

05 Feb 13 1 min read

India

“Rent a Womb”: India’s “Growing Industry”; Is it Biological Colonialism?

Many women from outside India – specially developed world – are “renting wombs” of Indian women [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/2013128122419799224.html] to have their babies. > In a study [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09649069.2012.750478] recently published in Journal of Social Welfare and

Desh Kapoor

03 Feb 13 3 min read

India

“Mohammad the Intestine-Ripper” (Delhi Gangrape) should be given Jail for Life: Can’t let this animal loose on streets of India!

In the recent Delhi Gangrape case, there were 6 rapists: Ram Singh, the bus driver, and his brother, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, an assistant gym instructor, Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller, an unemployed youth Akshay Thakur and Raj Mohammad [http://www.rediff.com/news/report/juvenile-gang-rapists-mother-he-is-dead-for-me/20130201.htm] supposedly a

Desh Kapoor

01 Feb 13 5 min read

India

Delhi Rape Victim’s friend remembers his friend and their unique, sweet relationship

Relationship between Delhi Braveheart and her friend, who was also badly injured that night, was a very sweet one. This is how they met: > The two first made contact in December 2010. It wasn’t exactly a success. A mutual friend had suggested that the young man might help her

Desh Kapoor

30 Jan 13 5 min read

Economics

When women do better, economies do better: IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde

If equality, respect and inclusiveness are on the agenda, the economies will fare better, it’s now a proven fact, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director at IMF, said at the WEF meet.

Desh Kapoor

24 Jan 13 1 min read

Achievement and Leadership

Delhi Gangrape Solutions: Sakha Cabs for Women in Delhi; Cabs for women driven by women

After the gang rape in Delhi, the discussion about women safety has come to the forefront. For women in New Delhi, just the basic transportation back and forth from work is a question of life and death now. How does one tackle that. Some, who can afford cars – and even

Desh Kapoor

23 Jan 13 2 min read

India

Delhi Gangrape: A Month later, despite Outrage and Anger, what have we Achieved?

It has been over a month now since the gang rape in Delhi happened and Jyoti Pandey died a horrendous death after shaking the entire country, and indeed the world, in just 13 days. The youth were out in the streets. The Government clamped curfew. Closed all routes to the

Desh Kapoor

21 Jan 13 1 min read

India

Gandhi ALSO blamed Women for getting Raped; Do Misogyny and Obsession with Sexual Purity go Hand-in-Hand?

Mahatama Gandhi was, after all, the “Father of the Nation”. What’s wrong if the sons take after their father? A lot has been said about Rape and the Indian culture. Even Hinduism has been invoked to show linkages to the rape epidemic currently in place in India. But are

Desh Kapoor

16 Jan 13 3 min read

India

Delhi Gangrape: What Should Boys Be Taught About Rape?

Here is an interesting discussion on what the boys should be taught about rape. Akhil Sharma discusses the whole issue of how boys are brought up and what messages are they getting.. specifically with respect to sex and rape .. and women in particular. > Much of this conversation has focused on

Desh Kapoor

15 Jan 13 2 min read

India

Woman Gangraped, Killed and Hung from a Tree in Bihar

I know a lot has been written about rape and rape cases. Jyoti’s rape itself was a demonstration of mind-numbing inhuman traits… Worse than animals. Now, this another one – close on heels of so many others, is equally baffling. Do we not have human beings living in India anymore?

Desh Kapoor

14 Jan 13 2 min read

India

Yet another Bus Gang rape – in Punjab – and victim dumped

It is as if the collective male consciousness has just become mind-numbingly criminal in India. Close on the heels of the death of Jyoti Singh Pandey, the Delhi Gang rape victim, come another gang rape, which can bring the images of Delhi’s nightmare back. The victim had boarded the

Desh Kapoor

13 Jan 13 2 min read

India

NPR’s On point Radio program on Delhi Rape and Public Protests

On Point’s Tom Ashbrook is one of the best radio interviewer in the world – with his in depth research and useful discussion. Here is a blurb on the introduction to his piece on Delhi Rape and Protests > The agony of India over the brutal gang rape and murder of

Desh Kapoor

10 Jan 13 1 min read

India

Schoolgirls raped in Boarding School; Administration and Politicians make such rapes lucrative and possible

Minor girls studying in boarding school – aged between 8 and 12 – were being raped in a Chhatisgarh school and it was being covered up by prominent people in that area. > Police said they have detained two men who worked at a state-run boarding school in a remote part of India

Desh Kapoor

10 Jan 13 1 min read

India

Controversial statements on Delhi Gangrape by Well-known people

In this very interesting post, Shilpa Jamkhandikar gives a list [http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2013/01/09/short-skirts-bad-stars-and-chow-mein-why-indias-women-get-raped/] of the Hall of Shame of the people who have given controversial statements regarding the Delhi Gang Rape incident. Just putting it here as a means of future reference. > Asaram Bapu,

Desh Kapoor

09 Jan 13 5 min read

India

Delhi Gangrape Case cocktail: Rape epidemic, Apathy, Admin breakdown, Brutality of Power

The friend of Delhi Braveheart discussed the incidents surrounding the whole rape situation (People were afraid to help us: Delhi gang-rape victim’s friend [http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/i-never-had-thoughts-of-leaving-her-and-running-away-delhi-gang-rape-victims-friend_820801.html] ). Here is what he said. > “The occupants of the bus, which had tinted windows and curtains, had

Desh Kapoor

05 Jan 13 4 min read

Achievement and Leadership

Woman Power, Business and Economy: Interesting Insights

Given the realization of the place of women in the world, here is something that I found interesting. These are observations by Mark Palmer, the CEO of StreamBase Systems [http://www.streambase.com/] on his blog (link [http://streambase.typepad.com/streambase_stream_process/2010/03/women-leaders.html] ) > Women, if

Desh Kapoor

04 Jan 13 3 min read

India

Rape Map of India: Insightful, Indicative and Useful

The following “Rape Map of India” is very interesting. In 2011, a total of 24,206 rape cases were registered in India, as per the National Crime Records Bureau. The map gives the distribution of the cases. Obviously, reporting of rape cases in India is not the same as reporting

Desh Kapoor

04 Jan 13 2 min read

India

Rapes and Life Lesson from Swami Vivekananda

Long before Swami Vivekananda had become popular through his landmark speeches in Chicago in 1893, he had once gone to meet and stay with Maharaja of Jaipur. As was the custom, Maharaja a great lover of festivities went out of his way to welcome Swamiji. There was an issue that

Desh Kapoor

02 Jan 13 5 min read

Creative

Campaign to stop Rape Rapper Honey Singh from performing in Gurgaon at New Year’s concert

Honey Singh is a Punjabi rapper from Hoshiarpur, who is going to perform at the Bristol Hotel in Gurgaon. A section of the society has started a campaign to ban this guy from performing in Delhi. Actually he should be banned from performing anywhere in India. He openly sings songs

Desh Kapoor

31 Dec 12 2 min read

India

Sadhguru speaks on Delhi Gang Rape case

What kind of humanity are we raising in this society? This rape is not main issue. We need to look at the foundation of such acts of violence. When such things happen, we usually just become politically correct and raise outrage. But is that the solution?

Desh Kapoor

29 Dec 12 1 min read

India

Small girl’s expression shows our collective outrage in gangrape case

The expression of this girl is priceless and the message enhances the profundity of the situation.

Desh Kapoor

27 Dec 12 1 min read

India

News of Nation-wide anger sends chill down Gangrape accused’s spine!

It seems the gangrape accused weren’t aware of the anger around the country regarding their heinous crime. When they were told of the country-wide anger; it sent chill down their spine. They froze and also started cooperating with the police. It was earlier reported how these people had earlier

Desh Kapoor

23 Dec 12 2 min read

India

Violence and Political Intrigue at India Gate as Gangrape Protest turns wild

India Gate was ground zero today, as the protesters were treated badly. Lathi charged and attacked. There could be many reasons. But one of the reason maybe that IAC, Arvind Kejriwal’s party and even BJP came over to support the efforts. And in that the Government saw trouble. > Hooligans

Desh Kapoor

23 Dec 12 2 min read

India

Delhi Gangrape case: Punishment for Rapists – Death or Castration?

Delhi’s Girl (lets call her that instead of the demeaning “Delhi Gangrape victim”) has corroborated that all the 6 guys raped her, which syncs with her friend’s version as well. (All 6 men raped me, Delhi Gangrape victim tells SDM [http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/All-the-6-men-raped-me-Delhi-gangrape-victim-tells-SDM/Article1-979351.

Desh Kapoor

22 Dec 12 4 min read

India

Best Tribute to the Gangrape victim: Let us all become parents to the city and its women

Sometimes in the face of extreme adversity comes extreme courage. When I read about the girl in Delhi who was the victim of gangrape and what she is going through as well as her love of life and strength to fight back despite of what she has left with her

Desh Kapoor

22 Dec 12 4 min read

India

Tihar Inmates beat up Delhi Gang rapist and force him to eat human excreta and drink urine!

Wow, even the hard core criminals can’t stand the inhumanity of this guy. Serves him right. For once, the Tihar Jail inmates may be India’s heroes! > Even Tihar Jail inmates couldn’t stand the horror of the Delhi bus gangrape case [http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/delhi-gangrape-victim-continues-to-fight-for-life-gives-written-statement-to-cops/1/

Desh Kapoor

20 Dec 12 1 min read

India

62 yr old lady accuses courier guy of rape after being caught having sex with him in Mumbai

Rape is a serious crime and it shouldn’t be belittled by some just for their own purpose. These stray and nonsensical acts can then be used by apologists to go slow on the creating tough laws for Rape Accused. > A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher from Powai, who claimed that she

Desh Kapoor

20 Dec 12 2 min read

India

Delhi Gangrape: They inserted a metal rod in her and took it out with such force that her intestines came out. She has none left now!

It is difficult to even imagine the state of this girl. Imagine living her whole life on intravenous fluids only, because she has no intestines left! These beasts not just gang raped her but inserted a metal rod and then when they took it out, her intestines came out with

Desh Kapoor

19 Dec 12 2 min read

India

Three Delhi guys in a car make passes at Aaj Tak’s Anjana Kashyap while she reports on Delhi Gangrape case!

Here is a strange and pathetic case in which the Aaj Tak reporter, Anjana Kashyap, is hounded by three guys driving around in a car as she is reporting on the Delhi Gangrape case. Of course the camera catches their faces and the license plate of the car. But will

Desh Kapoor

19 Dec 12 2 min read

Business

Women can close the Salary Gap if they don’t compete with men

The salary inequality between men and women is well known in the corporate world today. And there has been a lot of effort to reduce that gap, but it hasn’t really come down. Now, one research suggests that only when women work in sectors different from men, they are

Desh Kapoor

19 Dec 12 1 min read

Relationships

The End of Men… and Rise of Women: a discussion

Is the power dynamics changing towards the women? This writer says – that women and men equation is surely changing. Related articles How a feminist debate was derailed by asking all men to leave | Marta Owczarek [http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/03/

Desh Kapoor

07 Dec 12 1 min read

Relationships

Allahabad High Court equates a Housewife to an Earning Member; What is a Housewife worth?

In a path-breaking judgment, Allahabad High Court has equated a housewife with any other earning member. This was important specially when it came to deciding the compensation for insurance of a housewife who was killed in a road accident. > The Allahabad high court has upheld that a married woman as

Desh Kapoor

26 Nov 12 2 min read

India

How Newslive channel tried to use Guwahati Molestation to raise its TRPs

Reporter Interviewing Victim while pushing her hair backMedia shamefully in India goes after the TRPs. News is broadcast as if it is some drama. The protagonists in the news also are treated with the same frivolousness. Remember Barkha Dutt asking a man outside of the Oberoi Hotel during the 26/

Desh Kapoor

17 Jul 12 2 min read

India

Guwahati Molestation: Molested and Molesters are Products of Same Sick society

In Guwahati, Assam a young girl, student of class 11thwas publicly molested by men – young and old – in full view. They were ostensibly playing vigilantes and had access to a girl who wasn’t in her complete sense, so was easy target. In fact, she was completely disoriented! (Watch the

Desh Kapoor

17 Jul 12 6 min read

India

Blame the Rape Victim courtesy Delhi Police

In a recent investigation by NDTV and Tehelka into the rapes in Delhi and how the law enforcement handles and looks at them, there was a stunning revelation: Most senior cops [http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/in-and-around-delhi-cops-blame-rapes-on-women-tehelka-investigation-with-ndtv-194735] are hostile to the victims and blame them for their own rape.

Desh Kapoor

07 Apr 12 3 min read

Pakistan

Almost 1000 Pakistani women killed for Family’s Honor

What is it about the people of Indian subcontinent, that we still value “Honor” or our value in others’ eyes so much? Why can’t we live our lives in a way that upholds ourselves in just our own eyes? Although, both India and Pakistan have this family honor disease,

Desh Kapoor

22 Mar 12 2 min read

India

Where Mothers are forced to give Opium to their Infants

Rajasthani Women LabourersYesterday, the world observed International Women’s Day. Women are facing many issues over the world, specially in countries like India. The issues that a working woman faces in the urban places is quite a bit, but the issues that the rural or slum mothers face often puts

Desh Kapoor

09 Mar 12 1 min read

Women

Infographic of the Day: International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day. While many use this day to wish women, but the real intent of instituting this day was to push for Gender Equality. Even today, most women do not get the same level of salary as their male co-workers get, even in the US! In

Desh Kapoor

08 Mar 12 1 min read

India

Indictment of Crime or Resignation by the Justice?

A Kerala High court judge had an interesting observation on the society around him: > “Sex with young girls had become the luxury of the rich and the hunt for virgins had gained momentum. This may be because of fear of AIDS,” So spake Justice K T Shankaran, in a case

Desh Kapoor

01 Aug 11 1 min read

India

How few Keralite women are changing the future Indian social landscape

India is achanging. A few Kerala brides [http://www.timescrest.com/society/from-purdah-to-power-5705] married to Haryana Jats are changing the landscape and the social norms in that society. > “Mere to bhag khul gaye iske aane te (She has proved lucky for me),” says Sarti, the mother-in-law of 35-year old Omna

Desh Kapoor

05 Jul 11 2 min read

Pakistan

Padded Bras, Perky Breasts and Islam: Government of Pakistan body protests against padded bras!

Zakir Naik – the very popular Islamic authority and speaker from India – has a great business idea for Pakistan. He wants the Government of Pakistan to fund research for Shariah-Compliant Bras. If, he thinks, research could be done and such lingerie created that can make a woman’s breast unnoticeable, then

Desh Kapoor

13 Mar 11 2 min read

Personal

Rape – Do You Feel Hot About It?

It is said that the way the women of a particular region, or country, are kept and treated tells a lot about the men of that place. Take your mind off to all those places of our country or the world where atrocities on women are common and then think

Desh Kapoor

20 Jan 11 6 min read

Pakistan

How Pakistani Muslim men seduce, rape and convert Sikh, Hindu and White Women in UK

A couple of years back I came across a letter written by a Sikh girl from UK on an internet forum, on how she was seduced by a Pakistani guy and then made pregnant and married and converted to Islam. Not just that, she was taken to Pakistan and was

Desh Kapoor

14 Jan 11 4 min read

Misc

Why Is It So Difficult To Deal With Women?

Are you a woman, and have you ever thought like this? Why is it so difficult to deal with women? Have you ever experienced this? Have you ever felt that in personal relationships too being friends with boys, while in school or college or work place, was less complicated than

Desh Kapoor

18 Nov 10 7 min read

India

Why Are YOU In Your Marriage?

Indian Marriages, all over the world, are seen with so much awe. Moreover, the rituals and ceremonies as shown in movies which are further popularized by celebrities have all created such a hype around Indian marriages. Indian marriages are like the perfect case studies, which are taught and sold throughout

Desh Kapoor

06 Sep 10 3 min read

Women

Can Your Employer Be Your Moral Inspector?!

A conversation with my maid servant made me think about this. Can one person be a moral inspector of another? Be it an employer or anyone else. Do we have the right to be moral policing of others? Read on…. “Maine kuch nahin kiya” (I have done nothing wrong) she

Desh Kapoor

03 Sep 10 3 min read

Women

Femininity – The Complexity Of Human Sexuality

I wanted to start writing a series of posts on femininity, being feminine and the various aspects of being a woman in Indian society. What better way to start with than discussion first about the factors which determines the sexual identity of a woman (and for that matter a man

Desh Kapoor

30 Aug 10 2 min read

Women

When Indian Muslim Women Questioned Fatwa

Imagine the alleys of an old city in a place like Lucknow, and in a locality which is very conservative and a few women, (as I saw in the picture, there was no Burqa), march together with placards saying things like “Dharmacharyon se yeh keh do hum unki zageer nahin”

Desh Kapoor

21 Aug 10 2 min read

Indian Culture

Raavana Is In My Soul

I wrote this some time back : Its Dussehra or call it Vijaya Dashmi. The same story is going to repeat itself once again this year too. I had been reading it since my school days – Burai par Achchai ki jeet ka tyohaar – victory of goodness over evil. The jubilant crowds

Desh Kapoor

20 Jul 10 3 min read

India

Increasing smoking amongst women in India: #3 in the world

Smoking is a habit that hits directly at a person’s basic living system – the lungs. This is why many smokers have decided to kick their tobacco habit, either by using things like vaping products available at indejuice.com [https://indejuice.com], or by stopping smoking altogether. Its been a

Desh Kapoor

11 Jun 10 3 min read

Religion

When Boobs quaked the world!

A low-cut protest rocked the world this week. The epicenter was the facebook page called “Boobquake” [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boobquake/115608248460905]. Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi had said recently that: “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in

Desh Kapoor

28 Apr 10 1 min read

India

Single Women in India: Fight for Rights

In US and in other Western countries, it is easier for single women – with or without kids – to live a life. Its not so easy in India. To start with there are numerous taboos and stigmas. Widows face issues of ritualistic society where she is either thoroughly tortured by making

Desh Kapoor

10 Jan 10 1 min read

India

Single Women in India: Fight for Rights

Desh Kapoor

10 Jan 10 1 min read

India

Girls undergo Virginity test before mass state wedding in MP

If good has to be done, it must be done according to the whims of a man! That at least seems to be the motto of the MP State. In a mass wedding in Shahdol (600 km of Bhopal) held under Mukhyamantri Kanyadaan Yojna (Chief Minister’s ‘giving away the

Desh Kapoor

13 Jul 09 1 min read

India

First woman Army officer court martialed

Now that the women officers are in the Indian Defense services, it seems they are not doing as good as one might have thought they would. Which is a shame. Several of them have been called because of professional impropriety or corruption. The first Indian Army officer (Captain Poonam Kaur)

Desh Kapoor

12 Jul 09 1 min read

Religion

Woman, Burkha and Sarkozy

A woman walks into a store and sees trousers and short skirts. Decides to buy both. One for office and another for her party. She has a choice. Some guys see her in the trousers and admire her figure while some guys see her in short skirt on the dance

Desh Kapoor

26 Jun 09 7 min read

Women

What if Women Controlled the World?

What if women ruled the world? Well, world would definitely be very different. If the women called the shots then a lot of religions would have been conceived differently for one thing! At the very least the “Heavens” would have good looking men as opposed to Virgin women or good-looking

Desh Kapoor

03 Jun 09 4 min read

Women

A 12 year old leads fight against Child Marriage in Bengal

Child Marriage is a curse in India specially for the little girls. They are often packed off with older men for a rough life and many times a sad ending. It is important that everyone speaks up against such stupid customs. In Bararola – village east of Kolkatta, West Bengal; a

Desh Kapoor

29 Apr 09 1 min read

Special Stories

Female Body mutilation practices and her Sexuality

A woman’s body has been a playground throughout the human history. And still man cannot get enough and justifies everything in the name of some ideology – whether it is religious, cultural or modernity. The effect is always the same – mutilation of body parts. Here are some of the well

Desh Kapoor

23 Nov 08 3 min read

Women

"Beauty-disadvantaged" women beckoned by Mayor of Aussie mining town

In north-west Queensland state of Australia, the mayor of Mt Isa, John Molony [http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD14437220080821?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews] found his town has a dispropotionately higher male population vs females (5:1). So, logically he thought that here is an opportunity for the not-so-coveted lonely

Desh Kapoor

21 Aug 08 1 min read

China

A Prostitution Pricing Chart

Of course, humans can also read and write which Monkeys [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/?q=blog/monkeys-money-and-sex-now-we-know] cannot. Humans are more sophisticated about prostitution. Here is a price chart from Hong Kong. Look at the difference in prices. A Malay girl is the cheapest and a Russian girl

Desh Kapoor

25 Jul 08 1 min read

Women

Prostitution in an Islamic Republic

Iran has an Islamic regime. The Islamic dress code is enforced and so many other things. But right under the nose of the law (and sometimes in connivance of the law) – everything goes on. I know of a person from Iran who has been to all night parties full of

Desh Kapoor

10 Jun 08 2 min read

India

Indian Government to pay parents to raise a girl child!

In India girl child is treated as a curse! Thousands are killed every year. The worst states in this gory act are those in the North India – specifically Punjab! Now, for the first time, there is a serious scheme being planned, that is aimed at saving the girl child specifically

Desh Kapoor

18 Jan 08 1 min read

Women

Female Infanticide in India

This is one poster (from Amnesty International) that simply got my attention. Very well thought of and it hits hard for one who is Indian and completely against the bias towards the girl child! Text on the poster: In Indien sterben jährlich tausende mädchen nur weil sie mädchen sind. English

Desh Kapoor

22 Dec 07 1 min read

Women

Female Infanticide in India

Desh Kapoor

22 Dec 07 1 min read

Corruption

Gulabi Gang – the power of pink!

Suchitra Krishnamurthi [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/12/the_power_of_pi.html] talks about the power of the Pink color.. and provides links to this story of women of Banda area in UP who are dressed in pink (or is it purple?) and call themselves “Gulabi Gang” [http:

Desh Kapoor

13 Dec 07 1 min read

Corruption

Gulabi Gang – the power of pink!

Desh Kapoor

13 Dec 07 1 min read

Business

Rural B-School Empowers Women in India!

In 1990, I went to Insitute of Rural Management, Anand [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irma.ac.in%2F&ei=8bYfR-bIDZjceonThLcN&usg=AFQjCNHL6Atu72YADg2ARk_w9lK-S3h8tA&sig2=mzDGYMmSwi-ZJ1RggDlrRQ] . It was and remains one of the premier Business School that caters to

Desh Kapoor

25 Oct 07 2 min read

Religion

Girl Education is unIslamic

This guy Anwar Syed [http://dawn.com/2007/08/19/op.htm] writes in Dawn – a Pakistani daily – that a Maulana (Islamic cleric) has pronounced that Girl education is un-Islamic and asked the parents to withdraw girls from public school. Syed says that this is untrue from the religious scriptures

Desh Kapoor

19 Aug 07 2 min read

India

Correlation between Women and a Country's Prosperity

One of my close friends – Vish – has written this based on an earlier post on drishtikone. I think it is very informative and analyzes our poverty in context of our age old wisdom in the Vedas. ==================== Desh posted a story [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/?q=shame_on_us_

Desh Kapoor

16 Aug 07 1 min read

Religion

Epidemic of Rape of Unveiled Women by Muslim Immigrants

There is an "epidemic" of sorts in Europe (and Australia). More and more Muslim men are being convicted of rape (often Gang-rape) of European women who dare to stray into Muslim dominated areas unveiled or less than veiled. This barbarism is not just a European issue. Remember Australia’s highest

Desh Kapoor

25 Jul 07 5 min read

Religion

How a Muslim-turned-Hindu was tortured in Malaysia!

This is a rather bizarre case [http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/06/821177-muslim-born-woman-seeks-life-as-hindu] . A girl in Malaysia born to ethnic Indian Muslim parents was named Siti Fatimah. She was registered as a Muslim. However, she was raised by her grandmother as a Hindu! In 2001, her name was

Desh Kapoor

06 Jul 07 2 min read

Politics

Are men and women INHERENTLY DIFFERENT?

There is a fair bit of controversy on the differences between genders. Do men and women think and behave differently? A year ago, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Summers], sparked an uproar at an academic conference when he said that innate

Desh Kapoor

16 Feb 06 2 min read

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