Sunday, May 18, 2008

Deleting girls

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 18, 2008 The Other Half Now, even Amitabh Bachchan is speaking up for the “girl child”. Or so I am told. At ...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Connecting to the Northeast

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 4, 2008 The Other Half You know you have left “mainland” India the moment you leave the outskirts of Guwahat...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Does reservation matter?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, April 20, 2008 THE OTHER HALF Every year, for the last decade or so, around this time, noises are made on the is...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Let’s not forget

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, April 6, 2008 The Other Half Reams have been written in recent weeks about the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

And now the good news

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 23, 2008 The Other Half If you were a woman journalist, based in Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, what would b...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Sad Sunday

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 9, 2008 THE OTHER HALF Kalpana Sharma The euphoria over India’s achievements in the field of sports...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

Facade of cosmopolitanism

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 2, 2008 Kalpana Sharma Amina presides over Dharavi’s Muslim Nagar like a monarch. She is the local ‘...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Sorry, a powerful word

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Sunday, Feb 24, 2008 The Hindu, Sunday Magazine The Other Half Kalpana Sharma The image of Australia has taken a beating in this country bec...
Monday, February 11, 2008

How confident are we?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Feb 19, 2008 THE OTHER HALF KALPANA SHARMA When the media claims that the Indian woman has finally “arrived”, th...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Importance of being Bilkis

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, January 27, 2008 https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/Importance-of-being-Bilk...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

An assault on dignity

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, January 13, 2008 Kalpana Sharma When 70 to 80 men surround two women, push them, touch them, pounce on them, it ...
Friday, January 04, 2008

Invisible women

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The Hindu Sunday Magazine, Dec 30, 2007 THE OTHER HALF They flit in and out of our homes like ghosts in the night. They sweep and swab, wash...
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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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