ulti khopdi

This blog is written by a journalist based in Mumbai who writes about cities, the environment, developmental issues, the media, women and many other subjects.The title 'ulti khopdi' is a Hindi phrase referring to someone who likes to look at things from the other side.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

A question for Kejriwal

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 1, 2015 in Share THE HINDU Why do women continue to be absent in AAP? Photo: ...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

#Notsosafe

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Feb 15, 2015 in Share   Fewer than a dozen hands went up when I asked a room of over 500 Mum...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

How about Ma Bachao?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, February 1, 2015 in Share This is a season of symbols. A woman air force officer ...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Wisdom beyond schooling

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Jan 18, 2015 Veena Devi is unlettered. I use that word rather than ‘uneducated’. When I met her more t...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

I’ve written no fiction since my first visit to Palestine in 2000: Ahdaf Soueif

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My interview with Ahdaf Soueif in The Hindu, Literary Review, January 3, 2015 Lit for Life 2015 in Share The Hindu Ahd...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Wealth issues

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, January 4, 2015 in Share Unbreakable spirit: Parveen. Photo: Kalpana Sharma 2014 ended o...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Roots of the problem

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, December 21, 2014 PTI Pooja and Aarti meet the press. I am writing this a day before an unfortunat...
Sunday, December 07, 2014

Women can drive

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Dec 7, 2014 Sometimes a chance encounter makes you think that perhaps more things are changing than seem ...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

No more births... or deaths

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Nov 23, 2014 in Share PTI Women who underwent sterilisation surgeries receive treatment in...
Saturday, November 08, 2014

Crossing over

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, November 9, 2014 in Share A stretch of the US-Mexico border. Photo: Reuters   Sometime...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Hunger games

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, October 26, 2014 The Hindu Hunger, malnutrition, under-nutrition… are not the talking points at election...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Out in the open

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, October 12, 2014 Absence of sanitation facilities for women during disasters enhances their vulne...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

A woman’s worth?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Sept 28, 2014 The widows of Vrindavan. Photo: V.V. Krishnan The widows of Vrindavan. Photo: V...
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Kalpana Sharma
Journalist, columnist, writer based in Mumbai. Worked with Himmat Weekly, Indian Express, Times of India and The Hindu. Was also Consulting Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, and Readers Editor, Scroll.in Currently writes a fortnightly column, Broken News, in Newslaundry.com Author of "Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's largest slum" (Penguin, 2000). Other books include "Whose News? The Media and Women's Issues" edited with Ammu Joseph (published by Sage 1994/2006), "Terror Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out" edited with Ammu Joesph (published by Kali for Women, 2003). Editor of "Missing: Half the Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters" (published by Zubaan, 2010) and "Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women (published by Women Unlimited, 2019). "The Silence and the Storm: Narratives of Violence against Women in India" (published by Aleph,2019)
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