(This is the text of the open letter written by the eminent philosopher Prof. Bilgrami, who was honoured by the Government of Kerala a few years back, to Com. Pinarayi Vijayan, on the Hadiya case) Dear Mr. Vijayan, You may not remember me from a couple of years ago when you and Prof. Pannikar were … Continue reading Check Hindutva Patriarchy: Prof. Akeel Bilgrami writes to the Chief Minister of Kerala
This is the text of the open letter to Com. Pinarayi Vijayan from Kavita Krishnan, Secretary, All-India Progressive Women’s Association] To Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister Kerala Respected Comrade, This is in reference to the case of Ms Hadiya, whose marriage by choice to a Muslim man has been annulled by the Kerala High Court. … Continue reading The Left Must Fight for Human Rights: AIPWA to the Chief Minister of Kerala
[This is the text of the open letter to M C Josephine, Chairperson, KSWC, from Kavita Krishnan, Secretary, All-India Progressive Women’s Association] To Ms M. C. Josephine Chairperson Kerala Women’s Commission Dear Ms Josephine, This is with reference to the case of Ms.
On October 3, students, human rights activists, muslim-dalit-adivasi-bahujan organisations from all over India are converging in Thiruvananthapuram to march for the freedom of the twenty-four-year-old Hadiya, who is under virtual house arrest in the home of her father, Mr Asokan after the shocking annulment of her marriage to her chosen partner by the Kerala HC. … Continue reading Free Hadiya March on 3 Oct: Citizens for Hadiya
The following is a statement by feminist organisations . To add your name to the statement, please sign in the comments section. In the wake of the protests following the 2012 Delhi gangrape, India had witnessed a welcome sharpening of understanding around sexual violence and consent. Legal reform recognized the principle of affirmative consent – … Continue reading Feminists say ‘NO’ to recent rape judgments: There is nothing feeble about it
To The President of India Visitor Banaras Hindu University Sub : On recent agonising developments in Banaras Hindu University Dear Sir We alumni of Banaras Hindu University would like to convey to you our sense of concern about the recent developments at our alma mater namely Banaras Hindu University. Developments which have brought forward the … Continue reading Petition to President of India, Visitor of BHU from Alumni of the University
It looks like the CPM’s enmity towards the Muslim organizations is such that they do not mind sacrificing women’s human rights and reinforcing the patriarchal family just to teach them a lesson. So they are happy to stick with the Sanghi understanding of conversion as necessarily forced in some way, ideological or physical. Media One … Continue reading Cutting the nose to spite the face?
If there is one thing, besides the pervasive Islamophobia in Kerala in both the Left and Right, that the Hadiya case reveals, it is the deeply entrenched commitment to patriarchy eerywhere — on the Right, Left, the radical civil society, wherever. Since May 2017, this young woman has been under virtual house arrest in her … Continue reading Judicial Ghar Wapsi : Update on the Hadiya Case
Guest post by SIMPLE RAJRAH This article is written in response to the article Activism as a blue whale challenge by Manu Joseph that first appeared in Livemint. “Our love is constructed. Our beliefs colored. Our originality valid through artificial art. It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt” –Dalit Scholar Rohith Vemula, … Continue reading Against the De-politicization of Mental Health- Harassment is Not a Myth: Simple Rajrah
This is a guest post by RINA RAMDEV Public discourse on Delhi University’s staging of student union elections typically picks the ubiquitary narratives of money, muscle power and its floutings of Lyngdoh guidelines, year after clamorous year.
