Known Turf

A blog that I've been following with a great deal with relish, and which ought to be mandatory reading in my humble, starstruck opinion ...

Recently, I saw a report in the papers about unemployment trends and how it may actually be rising in India (can't find the link), and t...

This business of thin women... is an awkward business. We could begin with the feminine shape itself, and how beauty has been interpreted...

I like my feminism as much as the next woman. However, I'm a little behind on feminist theory; for one, I do not buy many books on the s...

Children's stories are such perfectly choreographed dream sequences, aren't they? Despite the wolves, the witches, evil stepmothers,...

I have always wondered why this didn't happen sooner. "Deep in the heartland of Uttar Pradesh... the priests are getting sacked. D...

zig has put forth a challenge - don't take sides; trade sides. Try and be somebody you're not. Try and put on someone else's sh...

Yes, yes, stealing is a bad thing to do. But for some reason, I can only shake my head and laugh at this all-girl gang of teenagers who ca...

"Classy film." "He's got class" "What do you expect? That place has no class." "Class! Disperse!...

Food is a human 'right'. Maternity is a 'benefit'. Gender is a 'problem'. Never mind, let me tell you a story. Khair...

Zigzackly points us to Esha, and a simple project through which you could help blind kids. "You pay a rupee a card to get your visiti...

I get a little frustrated with conversations about 'gender'. It is almost as if we were talking about an interesting vase on the din...

I should have written about Kherlanji earlier, perhaps. Except that I did not know what to say. When Shivam first sent me the link to the s...

Right now, I am wearing a skirt that my mother unflatteringly describes as a bedsheet. My mother does not like me wearing bedsheets. She doe...

Five things feminism has done for me (in response to Aishwarya's tag ) I've been trying, but how do I pin-point what feminism has ...

I entered my hostel and was given my room. Ten minutes later, I was on my knees with a leash around my neck.... After...

- There is something known as 'Tvarit' reservation, for certain Shatabdi trains. Tvarit refers to last-minute reservations, as oppos...

For a minute there, I felt powerful. For a minute, I thought, it would get sorted now. Now that I am involved , have learnt to speak up, and...

My friend Smriti likes to give herself names that almost belie her... Names like Tattle-tale (though she does spin beautiful tales). And Cha...

Aggression has a purpose. Something deeper and more instinctive that most of us understand, but which most of us experience only when we all...