Support the Bangalore events by organising a Pink Chaddi event in your town, wherever you are on 8 March 2009.
Some cities are organising Take Back the Night events. Others are kicking off massive email campaigns. If you want more information contact freelancehabba (at) gmail (dot) com.
If you are in Hyderabad: Contact Samir Gandhi at somugandhi (at) gmail (dot) com
If you are in Chennai, contact Ajit Sigamani at 9791158888 and floatingconcept(at) gmail (dot) com
If you are in Kolkata, contact Pranaadhika at 9874135992
Be the first person in your town to organise events. Speak to us.
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is there one in Delhi too?
ReplyDeleteTHE ACT OF MORAL POLICE(SENA) IN KARNATAKA & ELSE WHERE IS AN USUAL AFFAIR.WEARING OF JEANS & SMALL TOPS ,WHICH INSTEAD OF HIDING BODY PARTS ARE LURING BY SHOWING PRIVATE PARTS IN ONE OR OTHER WAY,ARE THE CAUSES OF SUCH ATTACKS.OUR INDIAN CULTURE IS TO HIDE THE PRIVATE PARTS OF THE BODY.
ReplyDeleteFor all religions muslim,christians & sikhs,jains wearing of clothes must be for hiding the private parts of women.
How about something like Durga Sena Protests, with a tagline that goes, "Yada yada hee dharmasya..' saw this as a suggestion on Shobha De's blog, loved it, because it hits back at the attempts to molest/oppress in the name of religion. The tagline will convey very clearly that the demons are being fought by Durga, the way they always have been.
ReplyDelete@Chris James - Read this,
ReplyDeletehttp://lifeofanindianhomemaker.blogspot.com/2009/03/art-of-not-being-provocative.html
What a woman or man wants to wear is her or her personal decision. I may or may not like it but I definitely would like to defend her or his right in doing so.
ReplyDeleteThe hooligans who attacked belong to a particular party responsible for Knadahar, Kargil War, Gujarat and attacks on innocent people.
Do not vote for that party that is as cunning and shrewd as a fox.
The issue of dresses being provocative will only provocate those who are ready for being so. Does their view also mean woman who wears "modest" dresses is safe? Statistics tell us otherwise.
What about the criminal politicians? 25% of our MPs have criminal cases against them? what morality do they have in attacking innocent people.
Tyagi
Missouri, USA
I just realized that warring political parties seend out goondas to beat up women so that confusion is created and the opposite party is blamed.
ReplyDeleteWomen are being used as instruments to throw allegations against each other.
In the midst of all this political game play, innocent women voters are being beaten up.
This is unconstitutional and ridiculous.
Some of us studying at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi took the Chatak Gulabi Chaddi poem written to support the Pink Chaddi campaign and put it up on a chart-size paper cutout of a pink chaddi, with the permission of the author, outside the School of Arts and Aesthetics Building on our campus. Another student removed the poem and handed it over to a university body called GSCASH (Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment). The committee felt our poster was really obscene, and warned us not to put it up again. It stressed its role in weeding out the use of what it terms "derogatory" language. The GSCASH president was of the opinion that such posters could be art installations in restricted private spaces but could not be displayed in public spaces. This, on a campus which prides itself on its openness to various streams of socio-political expression.
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