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.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Mainland apathy

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 24, 2015 in Share PTI Manipur...centre of unrest. There are some stories that are n...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

How not to help Nepal

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 10, 2015 in Share AP Those giving aid need to take the viewpoint of the...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Price of war

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, April 26, 2015 in Share AP  According to reports prepared by the United Nations and Iraqi...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Someone is watching you

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, April 12, 2015 Should we be worried or is this just paranoia? The recent uproar caused by Unio...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 29, 2015 Thank you, Sharad Yadav… Many women in India are really mad and irritated with Sharad Yadav...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Suzette Jordan showed that India isn't ready for rape survivors who deny their victimhood

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Published in Scroll.in on March 14, 2015 A 40-year-old woman died of meningo-encephalitis in a Kolkata hospital on Ma...

Crucial realities

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 15, 2015 This March 8 was not a very happy occasion. Despite the celebrations, lurking at the back was...
Sunday, March 08, 2015

Talking about rape

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 8, 2015 in Share 1 PTI Protests against the December 2012 gang rape. PT...
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...
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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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