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If Anyone Can Stand Up For A Woman, It’s A Woman!
Instead of ganging up against each other, calling each other names, or judging the looks and choices, we need to come together as a team to jointly fight away the monster that patriarchy is.
#smashpatriarchy
Do We Need A ‘Women’s Beer’ In Our Lives, Ladies?
Apparently, a Gurugram bar—Ardour 29—located in Sector-29 of the city, has launched a new beer exclusively made for women which according to their own description isn’t ‘as bitter as a regular beer’ but ‘on the contrary it is sweet and super smooth’.
Slut Shaming Is Patriarchy’s Weapon Against Women
Slut – A single word to make a girl feel uncomfortable and a single word to vilify her. But now ask yourself if you know such a word for a man? We talk about gender equality but don’t think once before calling a boy cool when he boasts of his sexual prowess. On the other […]
Kanyadaan Is Regressive, Says First Hindu Woman Priest
The first woman Hindu priest in West Bengal, Nandini Bhowmik is giving patriarchal society a progressive outlook. In her decade-long stint as priest, the Kolkata-based woman has solemnized weddings in a unique way. She has performed rituals for as many as 40 marriages. A Sanskrit professor at Jadavpur University, she recently solemnised her daughter’s marriage. She is […]
Mothers Deserve to Perform Kanyadaan. Period.
Nuptial Rituals like Kanyadaan are patriarchal practices, here the patriarch from the bride’s side gives away the bride to the groom. In cases the bride’s father is not present, the responsibility, then falls on uncles, as women on their own are not eligible to perform the ritual. So when Australia based Rajeshwari Sharma’s daughter was getting married, […]
Banda’s New SP Focuses On Crime Against Women
“Your work style shows you what kind of work you can do,” says IPS officer Shalini, who was recently appointed as superintendent of police in Banda district. It is a big deal thing for a woman to get such a big post in Bundelkhand, and Shalini is familiar with this. She agrees that a police […]
HappyToBleed campaign takes India by storm
At Lord Ayyapa’s Sabarimala temple at the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerela, women in their menstruating phase of life (10 to 50 years) are forbidden from entering the temple. The temple has an annual footfall of about 1 million ‘men’. This has always been the case, until recently when a statement by Travancore Devaswom Board […]
