A British woman who came to India to work for a charity developing women’s rights has told how she was humiliated in court and broke down after accusing a plumber of trying to rape her.
Kaya Eldridge, a graduate of the London School of Economics, has made a formal complaint to the Chief Justice of the [...]
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British woman tells of humiliation by Indian court
Posted in India, Law, Men, Women on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Libraries Can be Fun
Posted in Books, Children, Education, India, Literature, Poetry, tagged Children's Books, Children's Libraries on September 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A wonderful article by Chintan Girish Modi, who kindly left the link on the post below:
The success of libraries like Akshara and Kaleidoscope perhaps lie in the freedom that they offer children. They recognize that different children have different preferences, and it is therefore important to make available a wide range of books. They do [...]
Foundation for Universal Responsibility (of the Dalai Lama) Gurukul Programme
Posted in India, Refugees, tagged Dalai Lama, Tibet on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From my inbox. You need to be in college in India to apply:
THE FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY
of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
presents
NINTH GURUKUL PROGRAMME 2009
North India
The Foundation is organizing a month long programme in Dharamsala, North India,
to experience monastic tradition, Tibetan culture, Buddhist philosophy and engage
in various activities of the community. Meet and share insights [...]
Because these Senas are just pants
Posted in India, Politics, Women on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I will be sending a pink chaddi to the Shri Ram Sene via my sister-in-law, R1, who is in India. Join the campaign
Hope we can have campaigns against all the Senas of the Shiv, Navnirman variety.
V is for Veena
Posted in Carnatic Music Theory-Notes to Myself, Desi Pundit, India, Music, tagged Baha'uddin Dagar, Been, Carnatic music, Chitravina, Dhrupad, Dr. Mustafa Raza, Gottuvadyam, Hindustani music, Jayanthi Kumaresh, N Ravikiran, Pandit Lalmani Misra, Rudra Veena, Saraswati, Saraswati Veena, Sitar, Tanpura, Ustad Asad Ali Khan Sahib, Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Veena, Veena Dhanammal, Vichitra Veena, Vina on February 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This follows on from T is for Tanpura not Sitar; it’s Good to Know the Difference and S is for Sitar and Surbahar. The intention of these three posts is to help people tell the difference between these instruments, primarily because the Tanpura is the most fundamental instrument of Indian classical music and is often [...]
Left, Right, Centre, Pseudo-Secular: The Mangalore Pub Incident
Posted in Desi Pundit, Human Rights, India, Media, Men, News, Pet Peeves, Politics, Religion, Women, tagged Big Media, Mangalore, Men, Muthalik, Ram Sene, Women, Yeduryappa on February 6, 2009 | 11 Comments »
In the aftermath of the attack on the women in the pub in Mangalore, there have been some blog posts and articles protesting against the “secular” media’s characterisation of the Ram Sene as a Hindu Taliban, and of what happened as the “Talibanisation” of India. According to one blogger, the “liberal left” have gone into [...]
The Survivors’ View on Domestic Violence
Posted in Desi Pundit, India, Law, Men, Women, tagged Domestic Violence, Men, Women on January 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Recently Terri’s Mom wrote a post Potable Poison describing the sadness of seeing men drink themselves to death in India and the suffering of their wives, who are at the receiving end of a lot of abuse. The Mad Momma also had a post on Domestic Violence.
The question arises, time and again, “why do [...]
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