Bombay Dosti: Four minutes

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Four minutes

Beautiful

Radical

Why the declaration, "I am not a feminist"?
C.S. Chandrika in Mathrubhoomi Weekly 17th April 2011

Ya..... Life.

4 comments:

Srihari said...: First time I've heard to the Kanaka munthirikal.. hauntingly beautiful.

I'm entirely clueless about the second one, but I'm not sure why that declaration would make someone radical?; 10:05 AM
bombay dosti said...: @Srihari: I should have explained. In the article, the author asks why most feminists of today ( she was specifically talking about feminist organisations in kerala) where she felt most women, felt the need to declare that they were not feminists before stating the needs/issues of women. This article was about a recent accident in Kerala where a woman named Sowmya was raped in the ladies compartment of a train and even though there were people in the next compartment who did not even bother to pull the chain. In this article, the author criticises the 'petition type of feminism' where she says, instead of requesting for women police officers to be placed in ladies compartments or calling for a day of "sowmyanjali" she says, a group of women, should have traveled in a train during day and night, without ticket to put the protest against their spaces being reduced and to put it on record in public memory that such actions will not be tolerated.
Well, the tone of the article was radical. And this post was not about the content of the article but I put it when I thought about a radical in the midst of experiencing a beautiful moment.; 6:37 PM
bombay dosti said...: @srihari: Do you understand Malayalam?; 6:37 PM
Srihari said...: No, not really...but to the extent that Malayalam is similar to Tamil/Sanskrit, there is more words I know in that song than not..plus there's always google.

Thanks for the explanation...I'm neither radical nor feminist, but one doesnt need to wear any label to be outraged at incidents like that.; 10:45 AM

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