A dead bride kept in cold storage
Just as one swallow does not a summer make, so one horribly insensitive Gujarati community does not a nation make. But nonetheless, I am sharing with you this horrifically bizarre …
Category: India’s women
Where do I start…?
It’s been a while since I blogged, I know. Although I’ve been fortunate and have thus far “escaped” Covid, its effects have impacted me more than I expected. Lots of …
Yet again, I have no words…
I’ve used this title before in blog posts, usually where, honestly, there are no words adequate to describe the awfulness I’m reporting. And terrifyingly, I have another such story for …
TRIGGER WARNING! Another horrific Delhi rape
This morning, reading the British newspaper The Times, I saw an article about a trigger warning for the first Harry Potter book. Couldn’t be bothered to read it, dismissing it …
There really is nowt so queer as folk
I’ve shared with you before my classic go-to Yorkshire expression “There’s nowt so queer as folk.” If the bizarre story below didn’t involve a rape trial, it would be laugh-aloud …
Now about those ripped jeans…
Tirath Singh Rawat, the chief minister of Uttarkhand, a state in northern India, made a statement the other day. Mr. Rawat did not speak about the terrible disaster that took …