One of my mother’s friends, after reading about Elton John’s baby last year, expressed her disapproval to me with “He’s gay! First he says he’s married to a man! Now he says he has had a baby with him. That’s impossible.” I tried to explain the concept of egg donation and surrogacy to her. She [...]
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Will ‘PARENT’ be the Gender Neutral Term for the 21st Century?
Posted by Rita Banerji on May 13, 2012
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/will-parent-be-the-gender-neutral-term-for-the-21st-century/
Why Can’t Women Own Land?
Recently Wikigender and the Land Portal had organized an online discussion on ways to secure women’s rights to own land [for more click here]. Women may constitute approximately 50% of the human society (not counting India and China that are trying to push that percentage to zero!), however they own less than 2% of the [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on February 16, 2012
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/why-cant-women-own-land/
The Indian Girl in the movie ‘Eat Pray Love’
‘Eat Pray Love’ was showing in theaters in India about two weeks ago, and I have to admit, that like most here, I too went to see it just to see how the country looks on the big screen. But the one question that’s been nagging at me since is, “Why did they have to [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on November 12, 2010
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/the-indian-girl-in-the-movie-eat-pray-love/
Your Husband is God!
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay is one of my grandmother’s favorite novelists, and she says so with an air of superiority. To like Sarat Chandra is to be acknowledged as a true connoisseur of literature in India. So it is at the risk of being rebuffed that I say this: Sarat Chandra’s novels, particularly at the storyline [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on November 12, 2010
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/your-husband-is-god/
“The Bitch”
A friend once joked about how much easier it is for him to be gay in India than in some parts of the U.S. In India, it is not uncommon to see two men demonstrating their affections for each other openly in public. Holding hands, hugging, entwining fingers, engaging in kitten play or riding pillion [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on September 25, 2010
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/the-bitch/
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