India: Women’s Voices Go Unheard Within Walls of Ahmedabad Ghetto | Raksha Kumar / India Ink - The New York Times

December 10, 2013
Women’s Voices Go Unheard Within Walls of Ahmedabad Ghetto
By RAKSHA KUMAR

AHMEDABAD, Gujarat — On a hot October morning, an intense discussion was waging between three women in a nondescript beauty salon in the Juhapura locality of Ahmedabad, the city’s largest Muslim ghetto.

While the most common topics of discussion in a beauty salon are fashion, cosmetics and men, here the

Announcement: WSS public meeting on Muzaffarnagar on 30th November at ISI, Delhi

Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression

invites you to a public meeting on Sexual violence against women in Muzaffarnagar

30 November 2013 (2-5 pm)

at ISI, 10, Lodhi Institutional Area, New Delhi

Condemn the politics of communal violence!

Women's bodies are not your battlefields!

The explosion of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and adjoining districts of Uttar

Programme - National Minority Women’s Convention For Safeguarding Democracy And Secularism (26 Nov 2013, New Delhi)

ANNOUNCING

NATIONAL MINORITY WOMEN’S CONVENTION FOR SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY AND SECULARISM

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

CONSTITUTION CLUB OF INDIA
Rafi Marg, New Delhi



8.00-9.00-Breakfast

9.00-9.30- Registration


NAMES OF SPEAKERS ARE IN ALPHABETIC ORDER, THEY MIGHT BE SPEAKING IN THIS ORDER.

9.30--12.00

Inaugural Session:

Democracy, Secularism & Growth of Fascist Forces

Chair: Seema Mustafa

India: Religion as a barrier in women’s empowerment | Book reveiw by Rajesh Komath

The Hindu, November 18, 2013



Religion as a barrier in women’s empowerment
Rajesh Komath





RELIGION, PATRIARCHY AND CAPITALISM: Jayanti Alam; Kalpaz Publications, C-30, Satyawati Nagar, Delhi-110052. Rs. 865.













The book is a collection of chapters on the varied dimensions of a
woman’s life in the contemporary Indian society under the larger
umbrella concepts of religion and

30 days and counting . . . - The aftermath of violence in Muzaffarnagar & Shamli Districts, Uttar Pradesh | report by Joint Citizens’ Initiative (JCI)

http://www.sacw.net/article5920.html

Communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar: little has been written about the trauma suffered by women

From: The Hindu
September 28, 2013
THE OTHER HALF
The politics of violence

Kalpana Sharma

[Photo] PTI Riot-affected women and children at a makeshift camp in Muzaffarnagar.

In all the reports about the recent communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar, little has been written about the trauma suffered by women.

Imagine if you are a woman with several children and a riot breaks out. You can run, carry