A bizarre barbaric system mixed with religion, misogyny, patriarchy practiced...
Khap is a powerful social institution. It exists in Jat Hindu community in some states of Northern India. Some elderly men set rules for everyone. You do not follow the rules, you get severe...
View ArticleYesterday a terrorist was executed by hanging !
Four years ago, Ajmal Kasab was only 21 when he was sent from Pakistan to India to terrorize Indians. He was a poor laborer. His poor father insisted him to join an organization for money....
View ArticleGrow up guys for the sake of humanity!
The world knows that a woman has been raped in a Delhi-bus in India. The world doesn’t know that women have been raped in India every 20 minutes. Time wrote: Across the nation, a woman is raped every...
View ArticleShe was brutally gangraped, tortured, mutilated and murdered. Don’t say that...
Dr. Kelvin Loh, the chief executive of Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, said the Indian gang rape victim who was brought to Singapore, ‘died peacefully’. How could she die ‘peacefully’? She was...
View ArticleMadness 2
David Jennings’s description of Kumbha Mela sounds like it’s a hippie gathering. Over the bridges by the tens of thousands, shouting, chanting, singing, thrusting spears and tridents into the air,...
View ArticleReligious fundamentalists disagree with each other on everything but agree on...
Male-female equality is against nature, says Sunni scholar. A Hindu fundamentalist says, ‘male-female equality is against nature’. A Muslim fundamentalist agrees with the Hindu fundamentalist, says,...
View ArticleHow the extremists won
I have known Kolkata since my childhood, through children’s books and stories my parents told me. I came to know it better during my youth, when I finished reading the works of as many superb Bengali...
View ArticleMass Virginity Test
350 women were put through virginity test during a mass marriage programme organised by the Madhya Pradesh government in India. It is not the first time. The same state forced women to have virginity...
View ArticleMid-day deaths
I learned about poverty when I learned about school children that stopped going to schools because they were not given free mid-day meal anymore. Just a little poor quality rice, and a little poor...
View ArticleDon’t let the fanatics win.
Islamic scholar Amina Wadud’s lecture has been cancelled in India. Amina Wadud is called Islamic feminist. I personally do not think any devout Muslim can be a feminist. The reason for my doubt is, all...
View ArticleRemembering those days
India got independence from the British in 1947. But the independence brought the partition, based on religion. Pakistan was for Muslims. India was for Hindus. The political leaders of India believed...
View ArticleGandhi
I am watching Gandhi on an Indian TV. Today is the Independence Day of India. TV channels are celebrating the day. Gandhi is the father of the nation. Showing Gandhi is part of their celebration....
View ArticleEverybody has the right to blaspheme.
India is a country of religion and spirituality. It has a law against blasphemy. Section 295A, Indian Penal Code: Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by...
View ArticleIndian Godman is in jail for sexual assault
Gandhi grew up in Gujarat. He was called Bapu. Asaram grew up in Gujarat. He is also called Bapu. Gandhi was hugely popular among Indians. Asaram has been hugely popular among Indians. Gandhi used...
View ArticleWish there were no religion
Hindu-Muslim violence flares in Northern India. 38 people are killed. Politicians divided India in 1947 to make Hindus and Muslims live peacefully. 65 years passed, they haven’t found peace yet....
View ArticleOnam, a secular festival was celebrated today.
Onam is a traditional harvest festival. It is also a secular festival, celebrated mainly in Kerala, India. Malayalees all over the world celebrated Onam today. They sing a secular song during Onam...
View ArticleAnother patriarchal festival today in India. Bhai Phonta or Bhai Dooj.
There are hundreds of patriarchal festivals in India. People are celebrating Bhai Phonta or Bhai Dooj or Bhai Tika or Bhai Beej today. On this day, sisters put a sandalwood paste or a vermilion mark on...
View ArticleFatwabaaz and politicians
All the religious fanatics who issued fatwas against me, and set prices on my head or attacked me physically or tried to kill me for expressing my opinions were honored by the politicians in Bangladesh...
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