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Of Myths
Some time ago, I blogged about Naomi Wolf’s essay, The Porn Myth, and I asked what was wrong with Wolf’s statements about Dworkin. Of course, Andrea Dworkin has been one of the most controversial...
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Rules are for breaking
“I just feel like breaking a rule today” It was hard to resist that smile, and harder to stay in the present when I heard those words from the five-year old in front of me. She didn’t look like her...
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Courage
More than half of what people call courage is a combination of an overlarge capacity for avoidance and a tendency to laugh at inappropriate moments. The rest of it is the ability to look the things you...
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We don’t need no education
Daddy Long Legs was telling me he needn’t have gone to law school to study law – with a reasonable grasp of English and access to the right books, he could have become a lawyer all by himself. I don’t...
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The politics of birth control – I
Blr Bytes recently sent me this link, and it provided me with the impetus to write about something I’ve been meaning to address for a while: birth control. Rohit’s article is partly a response to...
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The politics of abortion – II
Part I of this piece reviewed the Indian law on the regulation of reproduction, and I ended up making the point that if the law were to be based on autonomy, it would decriminalise both abortion and...
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Why I read the Guardian
Because I find gems like this. Read Part I, too, and wait for Part III.
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To jolt me out of a stupor…
…it takes something like this. Just in case you aren’t the link-clicking type, this is what ‘Justice’s Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia of the Supreme Court of India have to say about the Janani...
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Do you?
You know her. Or someone very like her. She’s about 14, and maybe she’s your maid’s daughter. Or maybe she lives in the flat next door, or the large house across the street. She’s studying, your maid...
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Au revoir
Yes, time for me to row row row a boat. Right out of here, I’m afraid. What I’m trying to say Erimentha, God bless her, is retiring. Those of you who know me will soon know where I’ll be writing after...
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