Note: This is a dialogue that has taken months to articulate, Numa and I have been talking about allyhood, groups and new modes of organising — important to remember this dialogue has no end — we are just certain about one thing, if any speculation around solidarity is not a dialogue, a mutual engagement then [...]
All posts tagged Religious Manipulation
Intimate Outsider
Posted by Jaded on November 27, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/intimate-outsider/
Is That ‘Honor Killing’ In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To Not Be Me?
There are some crimes that are just gut wrenching to think about. “Honor” killing, the murder of a someone (usually a woman or girl) by family and friends over sex / marriage is an awful thing. I object to it personally. as a father of a girl, I shudder to think what could bring a father [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on November 4, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/is-that-honor-killing-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-happy-to-not-be-me/
Going Behind The Old Stone Face
As a country dedicated to be a hub for Westerners to feel ‘at home’ or to ‘re-find themselves’, India peddles a lot of things right by your nose — to the delight of the omnipresent DoucheColonial Gaze– as long as they fit the frame of being ‘exotic’ and condescendingly charitable. Like the handmade paper by limbless workers, [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 20, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/going-behind-the-old-stone-face/
Hark! I Hear Whispers Of ‘Hysteria’ Again*
As it is required by the Handbook of LadyBusiness, I do have a mandatory LadyFriend who helps me pick out books and bags, nods in agreement after I’m done talking and sometimes talks; and even then only talks about me. Fine, I embellished a little. The truth is, often we agree so intensely on so [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 13, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/hark-i-hear-whispers-of-hysteria-again/
Build Me My FatherLand
My father is a bit of a history buff; and I get my obsession with mapping events from him. However, when it comes to seeing history as a linear pattern of events, we part ways. My idea of history is too ‘messy’ for him, as I tend to always look at Subaltern points of view — or [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 23, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/build-me-my-fatherland/