In a country, which adamantly refuses to recognise “marital rape”, we are still far away from these complicated conversations about sex, coercion, entitlement and misogyny in the bedroom.
The HRW report only goes to show how structures of “due process” often don’t work, especially for women at the intersections of multiple marginalisations.
Maharashtra was one of the first states to roll out a landmark scheme for helping rape survivors and victims of child abuse following the outrage over the gang-rape of a photojournalist in a Mumbai mill in 2013.
The Human Rights Watch in their report released in November 2017 examines the implementation the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences, Act, 2012. I share here the findings of an eight week long court-room ethnography conducted in a fast track court (FTC) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in April and May of 2015.
The only mantra to fight woke misogyny right now is in three words, “I believe you”, and to provide pro bono legal support to victims of professors on the list.
Indian feminism is acquiring a new mutant form -- mobilise online, act online -- in which decision-making is decentralised, and there is no gatekeeping on laws and ethical boundaries.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
What happened with Aziz Ansari is something that happened on the otherside of the planet in a first world country with an entirely different culture.
Its high time Indian liberals stop projecting the neurosis of their Western counterparts and badgering Indians with their edification on what “Indians” ought to do.
So much for lazy “hashtag” movements and the dubious world of online outrage! Real social change doesnt take place in newspaper columns and twitter – it takes place on the streets, in people’s homes and in the offices, schools and colleges.
Indian male self-advertised “feminist” liberals would do well to keep their virtue signalling to a minimum lest they too meet the unfortunate and tragic public humiliation meted out to self avowed “feminist” Aziz Ansari when he made the tragic mistake of entertaining a gold digging celebrity chasing tart and serving her the wrong kind of wine.
Sorry, why should men be forced to decipher these cues when she could have said a ‘no’ – if she had wanted to??? She was the one who stalked him. Classical case of solicit sex and then cry rape.
What happened with Aziz Ansari is something that happened on the otherside of the planet in a first world country with an entirely different culture.
Its high time Indian liberals stop projecting the neurosis of their Western counterparts and badgering Indians with their edification on what “Indians” ought to do.
So much for lazy “hashtag” movements and the dubious world of online outrage! Real social change doesnt take place in newspaper columns and twitter – it takes place on the streets, in people’s homes and in the offices, schools and colleges.
Indian male self-advertised “feminist” liberals would do well to keep their virtue signalling to a minimum lest they too meet the unfortunate and tragic public humiliation meted out to self avowed “feminist” Aziz Ansari when he made the tragic mistake of entertaining a gold digging celebrity chasing tart and serving her the wrong kind of wine.
Sorry, why should men be forced to decipher these cues when she could have said a ‘no’ – if she had wanted to??? She was the one who stalked him. Classical case of solicit sex and then cry rape.