Tuesday, March 31, 2015

"Nope. Not Going To Write Again."

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On the morning of Monday, the 30th of March, 2015, 27-year old Freethinker-blogger Washiqur Rahman was murdered (Bangla news account here ...
Monday, March 2, 2015

"Never A Reason To Stop Fighting To Make The World Better"

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Hacked to death . Hacked . To death . Two living, breathing human beings, returning home after their day's work, set upon by murderous ...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Of Minds and Men: Some End of Year Reflections

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A peculiar trait in human beings: anything we don't understand, or anything we find different from ours, we tend to put in boxes. Or, a...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Sexual Violence in India: A Tale of Two Stories... for balance?

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Some of us were shocked and outraged the other day when via CNN iReport, user RoseChasm , a South Asian studies student at the University o...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Traditional Indian "Joint" Families: Are they quite the paragon of support?

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In a recent post, noted Indian educationist and social commentator Meeta Sengupta has wistfully (as she herself noted) sung paeans to the ...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Noted Women Scientists of India - an attempt at enumeration

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Priya Ravichandran ( @binaryfootprint on Twitter), who is a program manager and writer with the Takshashila Institution, threw a challenge...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Towards infinity and beyond

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On her newly-minted blog, my niece, a budding physician, was reminiscing the other day about the first time she set foot outside her famil...
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