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Your silence will not protect you

There is already an insurgency in the making against the existing patriarchy. We will lose more battles than we can win. I only hope dissent spreads.

Nuns have broken ranks with the church by openly protesting in the streets of the Kerala against bishop Franco Mulakkal for allegedly raping a nun.

It’s time clericalism is banished

They would need to be held accountable for any misdeeds, both from a religious and civil perspective.

08 Oct 2018 2:08 AM

Women hold a protest in New York against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sex assault. World over women are coming out and exposing those who had assaulted or harassed sexually. (Photo: AP)

Needs more than the law to oust sexual harassment

A common response of most women who have accessed the formal system is how unprepared they were to deal with the hostility of the system.

08 Oct 2018 2:05 AM

A Buzzfeed analysis found that Facebook News Feed played a key catalyst role in the spread of the top 20 fake news stories relating to the 2016 US presidential election.

Fake news, the DNA of tech firms: The big fight against fake news

Technology companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft are also gearing up to fight the menace of fake news.

01 Oct 2018 2:10 AM

Quite often, fake news resurfaces and goes viral multiple times.

Fake news, the DNA of tech firms: Gearing up for the 2019 polls

Social media companies seem quite serious about removing false news and propaganda from their platforms.

01 Oct 2018 2:08 AM

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com

Symptom of neo-liberal malaise

Jeff Bezos is a product as well as a symptom of these two worlds, albeit magnified on a global scale.

27 Sep 2018 6:58 AM

No Limits to Greed

The per capita income of India is likely to increase by 8.3 per cent in 2018.

27 Sep 2018 5:40 AM

The world should know by now that sea level rise is real.

When a sea of white horses hits the land

The ocean knows it can flood the entire planet. It is already at it since the last ice age.

17 Sep 2018 2:27 AM

Increasing ocean bed agriculture to feed humans and destruction of mangroves, combined with trashing oceans with plastics, sound the death knell for coastal habitations.

Climate change spikes sea levels

Chennai, Kochi and Surat are among the world’s top 20 cities will be flooded dangerously.

17 Sep 2018 2:23 AM

The Quran prescribes all Muslims, irrespective of gender, to dress modestly.

Living with Islamophobia

Islamophobia has increasingly become a part of the political rhetoric.

10 Sep 2018 6:35 AM

The issue of women wearing a face-cover, a burqa, in public is different from wearing hijab or head-cover to keep private a woman’s attractive hair.

Burqa: The case of Muslim face cover

The teaching of Prophet Muhammad provides the wisest advice: Muslims should follow the practices of the society in which they live.

10 Sep 2018 6:30 AM

Everybody should be able to know that we are making these types of decisions.

Save the internet from corporate censorship

The last five years has seen an inversion of the initial trend.

03 Sep 2018 2:02 AM

Google and Facebook take the position that they are not bound by the Indian law; only the US law governs them.

Private censorship

The big question is what role society should play as opposed to social media platforms.

03 Sep 2018 1:58 AM

The enrolment for PhD programmes has almost doubled, from 69,527 in 2011-12 to 1,39,218. (Representational Image)

Dwindling career prospects in the Indian academia

One certain way that we would not reach the goal to be among elite institutions in the world is by not hiring faculty.

27 Aug 2018 6:31 AM

What we see in Europe is a shortage of proper academic positions, and an increase of precarious academic positions

Postdocs find career options petering out

More doctorates is wonderful as it increases the knowledge base of societies, but it simultaneously generates an oversupply in the job market.

27 Aug 2018 6:23 AM

People take to the streets regularly to protest against the increasing levels of gender-based violence in the country.

The terror of masculinity: Abuse of power to show manliness

Ideological masculinity feels threatened under the perpetuation of gender equality.

22 Aug 2018 2:17 AM

The misogyny that drives such violence treats women in much the same way as terrorists fighting their enemies in the name of an ethnic or religious cause.

The terror of masculinity: It’s violent extremism and terrorism

Women are subjected to threats of rape and murder that are both designed to evoke fear and force them back back to the domestic sphere.

22 Aug 2018 2:15 AM

In this fast-changing, fast-deteriorating world, the misfortune of being a victim of bigotry follows me everywhere.

The dreadful malaise of bigotry: There’s bias, even in love

Time changes everything. But sadly, it doesn’t improve anything that is deeply rooted in religious sentiments.

17 Aug 2018 1:37 AM

Being legally blind, I have experienced prejudice first-hand. I was once at a job fair; the person didn’t even bother to look at my resume. He saw my cane and made up his mind… Deep in my heart, I felt a sadness that I had never felt before, finally I truly understood what prejudice felt like and it was a very sickening feeling

The dreadful malaise of bigotry: An act of mediocrity to belittle the other

Rural Georgia is racially balanced. The racial divide is still obvious, though not predominantly. where once can see bigotry, prejudice and racism.

17 Aug 2018 1:10 AM

There are laws and UN declarations to ban these patriarchal, anti-woman practices, but without much success. (Photo: Representational image)

Patriarchy made woman ‘the other’

Virginity rituals, menstrual segregation, taboos on women’s entry in places of worship are all patriarchal cultural customs.

09 Aug 2018 6:49 AM

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Mohan Guruswamy