“No, means no.” Sounds clear, right? It is absurd then how few people actually understand the idea of consent, especially when it comes to a married woman and her agency during sex. This is exactly what Girliyapa’s new video, ‘How I raped your mother’, talks about. Using the trope of humour and satire, the video deals with the society’s need to control a woman’s sexuality, the normalization of marital rape […]
A dangerous new trend has emerged in Barcelona that sees teenagers having unprotected sex with HIV carriers. Spanish media have reported that these group sex parties, known as ‘sex roulette’, have become increasingly popular across the city among people of all sexualities. Similar to Russian roulette, the parties present a potentially lethal game of chance as at least one unidentified HIV carrier joins the group. While certain parties are exclusive […]
Pakistan has expressed “serious concern” over India’s controversial draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, based on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, but experts say there is no merit in the claim. As per an official release, Pakistan’s foreign affairs ministry said they have sent letters to the United Nations Secretary General and the President of the UN Security Council expressing “serious concerns” over Indian government’s efforts to introduce the […]
Sometime in late May the shining sun announces that spring has started to slide into summer in the Lunigiana, a region in northwestern Italy that straddles the border between Tuscany and Liguria. This geographically diverse area that I have called home since 2007 is at its best in that glorious shoulder season when secrets can be unearthed both up in the mountains and down by the sea. On that first […]
CPI(ML) politburo member Kavita Krishnan and her mother Lakshmi ignited a debate on social media and teamed up to tackle a Facebook troll over women’s rights and consensual sex. The ‘Spoilt Modern Indian Woman’ — a feminist initiative aimed at breaking gender stereotypes — shared a quote by Kavita Krishnan on its Facebook page and initiated a discussion on what constitutes ‘free sex’. While the underlying message was against misogyny, […]
Whether you are a Modi bhakt or Modi hater, it goes without saying that it is hard to ignore the two years of Modi Government. I will not go into the nitty gritty of complicated survey and sentiment of investors. But as a common citizen of this country I would say that these two years have highlighted many facets of my country that I never thought was possible. I get […]
After all these years, Nupur Talwar’s father Retd. Gp Capt. B.G.Chinis breaks his silence not on the infamous case, but about him losing hope on system. On the Facebook page of Free The Talwars, he posted an open letter letting lose all his agony. Read it here: I had an angel – Aarushi – as my granddaughter who was lovingly brought up at our – her Grandparents’ […]
Vijay Mallya , under pressure from banks to repay loans, said he has every intention of honouring commitments, that he has made a new settlement offer to main lender State Bank of India and is hopeful of making quick progress on the matter, according to directors who attended a United Breweries Ltd (UBL) board meeting that he chaired by video-conference. Even as the Enforcement Directorate is seeking to extradite […]
Amid reports that China and Pakistan are jointly opposing India’s bid for the Nuclear Suppliers Group membership, the US has said India meets missile technology control regime requirements and is ready for entry into the exclusive club. “I’d point you back to what the president said during his visit to India in 2015, where he reaffirmed that the US view was that India meets missile technology control regime requirements and […]
We dislike outcomes which go against our expectations. Any incident that causes material loss becomes a source of frustration. We tend to ignore the quote that ‘failures are the pillars of success’. And this happens because we are not able to read the message that we are supposed to receive from what we term as negative incidents in life. Tagore in Gitanjali says, “I had let my mind remain engrossed […]
