I haven’t gotten around to my weekly linking feature for some time, but here it is, for this week.

In the last few years, Naxalite activity has been prominent in many Indian states and getting a good amount of media attention. I don’t believe that the violence unleashed by the Naxals will lead to any lasting solution, even if some of their objectives are fair enough. Equality and justice are some of the key demands of the movement, except apparently, when it comes to women. Sarbani Bandhopadhyay writes a fine piece, ‘The Revolutionary Patriarch’ on how even revolutionary movements are far from radical when it comes to sharing power with women.

Githa Hariharan has an account of ‘a feminist docudrama’ - a performance based on stories of women who could be considered modern India’s first feminists. Sounds very interesting - I wonder if there is any anthology which deals with the lives and work of these brave women and the challenges they faced, in a much more difficult world?

Nita, one of the most prolific bloggers I’ve come across, writes on the stupidity of legislating women’s right to work, rather than providing safe working conditions. She also makes the valid point that those who need to will any way end up working, perhaps in even more unsafe, dodgy conditions, if working late at night is made illegal.

Enjoy reading!

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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by apu
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