Saturday: Protest March in Bangalore

We Condemn Mangalore Pub Attack And Moral Policing Peace Procession

MG Road to Vidhan Soudha
7th February 2009
10 AM to 12 PM

“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead

The Shaming of Scarlett Keeling

THAT VIOLENCE against women rarely grabs any attention except for in the presence of gruesomeness, sensationalism, drama and tragedy is already known. But more disturbing by far than the fact that the murder of a teenage tourist in Goa last month has been making headlines precisely due to its cocktail of all the above elements is the level of moral sanctimony that accompanies the media coverage, the ensuing debates, and even what are ostensibly the responses of those who knew Scarlett Keeling and her family.

Policing Change: A Personal Perspective on Violence Against Women and Children

By Anasuya Sengupta

A well known TV news channel in English had a Women’s Day special recently, asking the question ‘Do we still need feminism?’ As someone who has worked with the Karnataka police for the past few years on issues of violence against women and children (and is a feminist), I found it startling and disturbing, that so many participants on that talk show – including a senior woman police officer from Punjab – had no sense of the extraordinary moment of crisis we are in, as a country, as a ‘civilisation’, as a community of human beings.