Mother India Zindabad ! Blog Posts

I won’t even go down the “what the hell is a self-styled godman?” route, since it will lead me off into another tirade altogether, but this case is nauseating and ultimately so pathetic, in the true sense of the word. It has everyth...

What do you do with such people ? A little girl raped and then put behind bars ? And by women ? I have no words nor anger left.  And such rot -  “suspension…sent to police lines…”  They need dismissing, on the spot. And, o...

Is nowhere safe for India’s little girls ? Raped by a father, assaulted by an uncle, raped by a fellow villager. What is to be done ?  These bastards need punishing severely and immediately.  But God knows what one does for the poor little gi...

There are times when the news is so stomach-churningly awful that I begin to despair. I really do. I despair of a country where (some of) the men can be so brutish and thuggish and evil. 4 sisters from a small town in UP.  All teachers.  And now al...

There are days when I feel like not telling you about the day’s crop of stories about raping and sexual abuse, so depressing are they. But then I tell myself that what is my depression over my morning cuppa, compared to the horrors these poor w...

A truly disgusting crop of stories to blight anyone’s morning. And such concerns are petty and selfish and trivial when you think about the horrors these women and girls have endured, and the lives that have been blighted over the last few hour...

I could hardly bear to read the paper this morning, so appalling was the news, and it would be oh-so-easy to hide it from you, but a pledge is a pledge. I said, back in January, that I would do my bit, inadequate as it is, by publicising the seemingl...

In my earlier post this morning, I showed you a photograph of a page from the Times of India this morning, so stuffed with rape stories that I couldn’t scan it in one go. Here is just one of those stories, chronicling 48 hours in the capital ci...

I warn you. This makes for tough, sickening, unpleasant reading. Gang rape after gang rape after rape after rape.  And no, I am not revisiting the horrors of December 16th, but sharing with you the horrors of the last 48 hours in the capital city of...

Nestling cosily side by side in the Times of India – but too large for me to scan in one go – the horrors of 2 more girls raped. Words fail me. There is only so much outrage a person can summon up…  ...

Another day, another school, another case of sex abuse. What on earth is happening ? The Pandora’s Box that was opened on 16 December just keeps spewing out horrors.   Poor little mites.

After the horrific Delhi 16th gang rape, I made some very public (blog) pronouncements about continuing to report on the abuse of women here in India, as my own, very small contribution. I haven’t been very good at keeping to my word, despite t...

And all the dowry deaths in India, Dr. Sharma?  Pray tell. You want to weep.   That this is a woman speaking makes the idiocies even more shocking.

No, seriously, just tell me, what did the country do, to get such numbskulls in office ? Read on…   Mr. Chief Minister, sack this man now.  Please.  And while you are at it, build better hostels for your girls.  Please.

INDIA IS NO PLACE FOR GIRLS Disagree with me ? Well just read this, and then we can talk. This horrible story from today’s paper makes you realise just how deeply sick some people are. Talk about the worst of copycat behaviour -  and another...

As the mother of a girl, I cannot even begin to comprehend why parents would send their own child back to in-laws who have been harrassing her. You, as the father, bring your daughter back home from her abusive in-laws. Husband threatens divorce. And...

It’s been a while since I updated you on what is going on in the oftentimes bizarre misogynistic world in India. But as you can see, not much has changed. Read the Grand Mufti of Kashmir’s latest salvo.   I suppose it is pointless t...

On a murky foggy grey day like we have had today in Delhi, opening your morning paper to this kind of news seems even worse than usual. You don’t really need me to comment. You are all intelligent and the stories speak for themselves. I am ful...

It just doesn’t stop. Rape. Gang-rape. Minors sexually molested. Father killing his daughter. The sickening catalogue of brutality towards Indian women and girls continues. I have been pretty busy the last few days with house guests and non hou...

I could utter platitudes such as “I hate to do this to you on a Monday morning.  You know, start your day with such a disgusting story…etc etc” but the fact of the matter is that there is clearly something so serious being exposed...