Samar Halarnkar

‘I am against women wearing obscene clothes. With such clothes, they tempt men, and that’s why they (women) get raped.’

It is bad enough that Indian men — not the most appealing of God’s creatures — in positions of power occasionally make public, sexist statements that demean working women and female students. But when a declaration like that comes from a woman like KK Seetamma, head of a committee set up by Bangalore University to fight sexual harassment, you have to wonder about the kind of thoughts coursing through the mind of emerging India.

Dhruv Arora

The honorable Women and Child Welfare Minister of Karnataka, C C Patil, seems to have figured out the cause of women getting sexually harassed. According to the latest statement released by mister minister, the cause of sexual harassment lies in a woman’s choice to dress up in a ‘flimsy and fashionable’ manner.

Shreya Manohar Singh

Feminists are infamous for having been in the business of criticising the ‘beauty myth’ for the better part of a century now. And this is one of the things about my world that of late has been bothering me - the impossible standards of beauty that women are held up to. I think that we are under constant, and increasing, pressure to look good, nay, airbrushed, absolutely every moment.  What we are expected to approximate is unachievable, and meant to be so. Of course this troubles a lot of women, and men too.

Nandan Latwal

मुझे आज भी स्पष्ट रूप से याद है जब 10 -15 साल पहले महानायक "अमिताभ बचन " के एक चर्चित डाइअलॉग " मर्द को दर्द नहीं होता " पर जी तरह से देखने वालो में उत्साह और जोश भर जाता था , आज भी लोगो का उत्साह वैसा ही है वरन मीडिया ने भी सभी के लिए एक ऐसे ही लौह पुरुष की छवि बना दी है जो चलती हुई गाडियों से छलांग लगा सकता है, जो 20 लोगो को अकेले हराने में समर्थ है , जो दूध जैसा श्वेत और जिसका शरीर मानों संगमरमर पर तराशा गया हो!