Some Thoughts on the Age of Consent for Sex and Marriage in India
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Changing the Rules of the Political Game
Remembering Sant Longowal on his 30th Death Anniversary This is an account of Manushi’s attempts to organise a meeting for communal amity on June 25, 1985.…
View More Changing the Rules of the Political GameFrom Manusmriti to Madhusmriti: Flagellating a Mythical Enemy
First Published in March-April 2000, Manushi # 117 ON March 25 of this year, copies of Manusmriti were burnt by reformers protesting against the ill-conceived installation of…
View More From Manusmriti to Madhusmriti: Flagellating a Mythical EnemyPolice & Judicial Reforms First Priority – Need for Surgeon’s Precision while Amending the Anti Rape Law
Written and Oral Submissions by MANUSHI before the Justice Verma Commission The countrywide anger and protest following the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old…
View More Police & Judicial Reforms First Priority – Need for Surgeon’s Precision while Amending the Anti Rape LawDiagnosing and Remedying Backwardness- English Education Defines the New Brahmins and the New Dalits of India
First Published in Manushi Journal (Issue No. 154): http://www.manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20Files%20154/MK%204-10.pdf The current simplistic debate over reservations as a key remedy for inequality, injustice and backwardness has been reduced…
View More Diagnosing and Remedying Backwardness- English Education Defines the New Brahmins and the New Dalits of IndiaOf Love and Marriage
First published in Manushi Issue No. 80 (January – February 1994) http://www.manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20files%2080/love_and_marriage.pdf Feminists, socialists and other radicals often project the system of arranged marriages as one of the…
View More Of Love and MarriageHas 7 Race Course Road Disoriented Modi?
Reproduced below is the unedited version of my interview with Vrinda Gopinath which was first published on Scroll.in Noted academician Madhu Purnima Kishwar of the Centre for Study…
View More Has 7 Race Course Road Disoriented Modi?Who Am I?: Living Identities vs Acquired Ones
This was first published in the print edition of Manushi journal, No. 94, May-June 1996. Every human being is the product of many cross-cutting, multilayered identities.…
View More Who Am I?: Living Identities vs Acquired OnesNeed to Reestablish Links —Some Discussions With Sikh Communities in North America
This was first published in the print edition of Manushi journal, Issue no. 120 of 1987. The Indian government tries to attribute terrorism in Punjab to a mysterious…
View More Need to Reestablish Links —Some Discussions With Sikh Communities in North AmericaYes to Sita, No to Ram:The Continuing Popularity of Sita in India
I wish to clarify at the outset that I am going to focus primarily on the Sita of popular imagination rather than the Sita of Tulsi,…
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