Category: Social
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Say, “Boys don’t make them cry!”; rather- “boys don’t cry”
A big sigh of confusion, that hard hollow engulf, those shivering lips and that storm bringing big drop roll down those pink cheeks. Millions of emotions fighting inside and you just say ‘she is crying’. Then comes another grievous statement,-” Enough of your drama yaar, now please don’t start crying again”. Many of the males…
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Stop Throwing Acid!
Kofi Annan rightly observed that “Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and perhaps the most pervasive.” Violence against women is not a thing of the past, we witness violence even today. There has been hardly any day when we have not read or heard news about violence against women which…
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Film and Women
An impossible episode swamped with intriguing imagination can be deemed as an actual one only in films. A film, a motion picture. What are the first images that comes to one’s mind after looking at these words? Maybe the image of a muscular tall handsome man fighting off goons while a scared and timid woman,…
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Bleed red with pride!
Eventually the next day she removed the wet and awful smelling cotton cloth that turned red overnight from her vagina. She hold it with all her love and cleaned it deliberately. Blood was flowing like several small brooks on her things. She was fascinated by the flow. She looked at her own blood so intensely…
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“Beauty without Irony”
“I don’t feel any less of a woman, I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my feminity “, Angelina Jolie on getting a double mastectomy. Breast cancer campaign day, recognized as ‘WEAR IT PINK’. Hundreds and thousands of people stood together for Breast cancer campaign across the country,…
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It’s not her, it’s us!!
“Let’s not reciprocate the predominating culture and keep judging her past!’ “Because being judgemental is the birth right of human!!” Sunny Leone, picture of beauty and grace in every contribution she have ever made. Whether being indulged in charity or adoption of a girl child, she slammed the outrageous demands of the society.But no this…
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Mann on wheels!!
Girls riding bikes! A very common scene these days, yet not very common! It’s great to see women breaking stereotypes in every field, however small it may be. Did you hear about the EMANCIPATION RIDE FOR WOMEN which happened in the month of August? Shiwani Mann organised the event. So let’s know something about her.…
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A Filter on the Judges
We are all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. Everyone has their own insecurities, their own passion, their own flaws and their own achievements. You see everything is your own and yet there are people who will judge you. That is the flaw of the human nature. We…
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Right to Enter – The Sabarimala matter!
Sabarimala falls second in the list of the largest seasonal pilgrimage, after Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The hill-top shrine is burrowed in Western Ghats in Pathanamthitta district, about 3000 feet above sea level. It is located amidst 18 hills in the Periyar Tiger Reserve. On the temple website, it is said that it allows people…
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This Is For
This is for all the girls who are called ‘sluts’ for wearing too ‘revealing’ clothes. This is for all the boys who are made fun of for not being able to grow facial hair. This is for all the girls who are labelled ‘dumb’ because they are conventionally pretty. This is for all the boys…