Poster Colours

SOME OF YOU have asked how you can help in the campaign against the attacks on women in Mangalore and Bangalore. Running a poster campaign in your neighborhood, college or office is a quick and easy way.  Here are some posters I’ve received from different organizations. Click on the download link to get a large-size [...]

Weekend Protest Details

Saturday, 7th March 2009, 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Meet Director General of Police for Karnataka, Ajay Kumar Singh: A crowd will gather outside the DGP’s office while a delegation goes to in to present him with a memorandum. More details at Bangalore Aware. Sunday, 8th March 2009, 6 pm onwards Take Back the Night [...]

Responding to the Bangalore Attacks

By Maraa Seven attacks in the last ten days! In response to the recent attacks against women in the city of Bangalore, many individuals and organisations have come together to form FEARLESS KARNATAKA or Nirbhaya Karnataka to reclaim public spaces and promote safety for all. In the wake of a series of attacks in Mangalore [...]

What Lies Beneath?

IT’S BEEN AMUSING to see the uproar around the Pink Chaddi Campaign over the last few days, with some of the ‘finest journalistic minds in the country’ pitching in with their opinions. This piece, ironically called ‘What Lies Beneath’, by Sagarika Ghose in Hindustan Times was particularly baffling, shallow as a frying pan and about [...]

Understanding and Responding to the Mangalore Assaults

By Sumi Krishna How should we in the women’s movement understand and respond to the cluster of assaults by the Rama Sene, Bajrang Dal and other fundamentalists; the targeting of minorities and their places of worship; the harassment and molestation of women of all classes in the name of nation, culture and religion; the fear [...]

Saturday: Protest in Bangalore

DEFEND THE RIGHT TO LOVE Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009 Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Location: Mahatma Gandhi Statue on MG Road at 12 o’clock. We will walk through MG road and Brigade road

Fri and Sat: Protests in Delhi

AISA and AIPWA organised protest on Valentine’s day in Delhi. Say NO to the ‘Morality Police’! On February 13, on the eve of VALENTINE’S DAY

The Power of Pink Chaddis

IT’S COOL. It’s cheeky. It’s clever. I’m talking about the Pink Chaddi Campaign. Women all over the country are gathering pink chaddis and sending them to Muthalik as a Valentine’s Day present. The plan is to strike disgust in the teensy little non-heart of our chief moral guardian — and to loudly assert the fact [...]

Nothing Moral About It

By Anuradha Prasad When I first heard about the Mangalore pub incident, I was not surprised. Ever since the BJP came into power, as glad as I was to see the Gowdas go, I felt some apprehension. ‘Moral policing’ and communal conflicts always seem to ride on BJP power. However, it was later, when I [...]

The Weighty Burden of Honourable Names

By Shilpa Phadke & Sameera Khan Clearly Sanjay Dutt hasn’t read his Shakespeare for he doesn’t seem to recollect the Bard’s pronouncement, “What’s in a Name?” But then perhaps for one with his nose in all kinds of things rotten, nothing smells sweet to him at all. We allude to Sanjay Dutt’s recent assertion of [...]

Sunday: Say, I am – a performative walk.

Students of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, have organized a choreographed demonstration against the mangalore attacks and the statements that made after that. This walk is on Sunday, 8th Feb, 4 pm onwards.

Protest against Mangalore incident in Delhi

Protest against Assault on Women in Mangalore Pub and State Inaction We condemn the brutal assault by members of the Sri Ram Sene on young women in a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka, on Saturday, 24 January 2009. We are shocked by the response of the State administration, police, and political leadership, some of whom have [...]