Sunday, July 27, 2008

Wrong priorities?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, July 27, 2008 The Other Half One out of every two persons in the world compelled to defecate in the open is...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Motif of violence

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The Hindu, Sunday, July 13, 2008 The Other Half Afghanistan is once again in the news with the horrific bombing of the Indian embassy in Kab...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Work matters

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, June 29, 2008 The Other Half In Aurangabad, Maharashtra, a group of women have taken on the challenging but diff...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Being Hillary

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I must add this note before I post this link to my column in The Hindu on Hillary Clinton. I got a huge response from readers, most of it p...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Diary of the displaced

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, June 1, 2008 The Other Half When a natural disaster, like an earthquake or a tsunami, destroys your home and lea...
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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...