Monday, December 17, 2007

Unrecognised heroines

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, December 16, 2007 THE OTHER HALF KALPANA SHARMA Is it best to forget, forgive and move on or should we hold on t...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Srinagar Diary

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The Hindu, Sunday, December 2, 2007 THE OTHER HALF Cities can change and do. Five years is a long time in the life of a city. It appears eve...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

World without women

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The Hindu, November 18, 2007 The Other Half KALPANA SHARMA In the late 1980s, when we had the first indications that technology was being us...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Dressing down at work

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The Hindu, November 4, 2007 THE OTHER HALF KALPANA SHARMA The crowd was utterly conformist. Row upon row of neatly turned out women, the maj...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The devil is in Dharavi's details

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HOW DO you bake a cake if you don't know the exact ingredients? Ask the Maharashtra government. This is precisely what it is attempting...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

The freedom not to choose

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How much freedom should our daughters have? This is the question that has become the topic of discussion nationwide thanks to the media att...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The 'invisible' half

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The Hindu, Oct. 7, 2007 Sunday Magazine section The Other Half column They came dressed in their Sunday best even though it was a Saturday. ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Padding up for jingoism

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the much-feted captain of the victorious T20 World Cup team brought India’s commercial capital to a standstill on Sept...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Remembering Roop Kanwar

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The Hindu, September 23, 2007 THE OTHER HALF On September 4, 1987, when the days were still warm but the nights were getting cooler, a young...
Monday, September 17, 2007

Interesting quote

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More on the media and what should be our perspective. John Pilger, a journalist I really admire, has been interviewed by Naresh Fernandes i...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Media and Terror

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This is a talk I gave on September 6, 2007 at the Bangalore International Centre. I am posting it on this blog in the hope that it will pro...
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Talking about harassment

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From The Hindu, September 9, 2007 The Other Half KALPANA SHARMA Road rage, rasta roko, face blackening, public humiliation. Every day we rea...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Celebrating difference

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The Hindu, August 26, 2007 THE OTHER HALF Like thousands of others across the country, I too went to see the new hit film “Chak de India”. N...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

How 'independent' are we?

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The Hindu, August 12, 2007 THE OTHER HALF KALPANA SHARMA Just a fortnight before India turns 60 — an age that is supposed to signify maturit...
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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Be safe, don't exist

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The Hindu, July 29, 2007 The Other Half The Delhi police have given a new twist to the old tale of women’s safety in cities. In their desire...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

On hypocrisy

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I'm glad someone has finally written about the hypocrisy of the Indian media (read Barkha Dutt in Hindustan Times (July 21, 2007), the I...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Why Pooja got "mad"

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, July 15, 2007 THE OTHER HALF The Pooja Chauhan story has now become familiar to most people in India with access...
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Moving beyond symbols

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, July 1, 2007 THE OTHER HALF In the 60th year of India’s Independence, a woman becoming the President of India is...

Recipe for peace

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, June 17, 2007 THE OTHER HALF WAR always makes it to the front pages of newspapers. Peace also does, when there i...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

What happens when the water runs out?

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From The Hindu, May 8, 2007 THE POWER crisis in Maharashtra has occupied many column centimetres in local newspapers. Understandably so as w...
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