Author : Viney Pushkarna
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1105695190
ਇਕ ਜੁਬਾਨ ਕਸੂਤੀ ਮਿਤਰੋ ਜੇਹੜੀ ਦਿਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਸਾਂਝ ਗਵਾ ਦੇਵੇ, ਇਕ ਜੁਬਾਨ ਹੀ ਉਸ ਖੁਦਾ ਦੀ ਕਿਰਨ ਜੋ ਖੁੱਲੇ ਤੇ ਸਚ੍ਚ ਵਿਖਾ ਦੇਵੇ | ਪੰਡਿਤ ਕੀ ਲਿਖੁਗਾ ਯਾਰੋ, ਜੇਹੜਾ ਸਜਣਾ ਨੂੰ ਸ਼ੀਸ ਝੁਕਾ ਦੇਵੇ, ਸੱਬ ਓਸ ਨੀਲੀ ਛੱਤਰੀ ਵਾਲੇ ਦੀਆਂ ਖੇਡਾਂ ਜੋ ਚਾਹੇ ਲਿਖਾ ਲੇਵੇ ||This is the book to tell the fact of life through imagination's light in the form of shayri - zubaan
Author : Kanu
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2024-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9359922641
It is a conglomeration of articles and write ups expressing the positive impact of women empowerment in their lives.
Author : Essar Batool
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9384757845
On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture, and the women to rape. According to village accounts, as many as 31 women were raped. Twenty-one years later, in 2012, the rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi galvanized a protest movement so widespread and deep that it reached all corners of the world. In Kashmir, a group of young women, all in their twenties, were inspired to re-open the Kunan-Poshpora case, to revisit their history and to look at what had happened to the survivors of the 1991 mass rape. Through personal accounts of their journey, this book examines questions of justice, of stigma, of the responsibility of the state, and of the long-term impact of trauma.
Author : V. Geetha
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9385932152
The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important - yet silenced - subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone volumes) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies, detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. In this remarkable and wide-ranging study, activist and historian V. Geetha unpacks the meanings of impunity in relation to sexual violence in the context of South Asia. The State's misuse of its own laws against its citizens is only one aspect of the edifice of impunity; its less-understood resilience comes from its consistent denial of the recognition of suffering on the part of victims, and its refusal to allow them the dignity of pain, grief and loss. Time and again, in South Asia, the State has worked to mediate public memory, to manipulate forgetting, particularly in relation to its own acts of commission. It has done this by refusing to take responsibility, not only for its acts but also for the pain such acts have caused. It has denied suffering the eloquence, the words, the expression that it deserves and papered over the hurt of its people with routine government procedures. The author argues that the State and its citizens must work together to accord social recognition to the suffering of victims and survivors of sexual violence, and thereby join in what she calls 'a shared humanity'. While this may or may not produce legal victories, the acknowledgment that the suffering of our fellow citizens is our collective responsibility is an essential first step towards securing justice. It is this that in a fundamental sense challenges and illuminates the contours and details of State impunity, and positions impunity as not merely a legal or political conundrum, but as resolute refusal on the part of State personnel to be part of a shared humanity.
Author :
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9788189013813
Poster Women is an archive of over 1500 posters from the Indian Women's Movement, collected over an 18 month period from all over India. Put together by Zubaan, this unique archive demonstrates the dynamism, richness and variety of this important movement. Spanning the period from the 70s to the present day, the collection is divided into a number of key campaigns that cover areas such as violence, health, political participation, the environment, religion and communalism, literacy, rights and marginalization. Also included are posters on different themes such as the use of the goddess metaphor, or the marking of particular days that are important to the movement. The collection has been sourced from over 200 groups all over the country. A full digital record of the Poster Women collection is available on CD. In addition, the archive is physically housed at the Sound and Picture Archives for Women (SPARROW) in Mumbai. For further information about this collection, or to purchase any of its accompanying products, please contact Zubaan at either of the addresses below: [email protected]; [email protected]. SPARROW can be contacted at [email protected]
Author : Chayanika Shah
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9384757853
The constructed “naturalness” of a world made up of two sexes, two genders, and heterosexual desire as the only legitimate desire has been continuously questioned and challenged by those marginalised by these norms. This forces us to ask some important questions: How is gender really understood and constructed in the world that we inhabit? How does it operate through the various socio-political-cultural structures around us? And, most crucially, how is it lived? No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy answers these questions with a research study that attempts to understand gender through the lives of queer persons assigned gender female at birth. The lived realities of the respondents, echoing in the book through their voices, help to interrogate gender as well as provide clues to how it can be envisioned or revisioned to be egalitarian. This book explores how gender plays out in public and private institutions like the family, educational institutions, work and public spaces. Looking at each of these independently, it elaborates the specific ways in which binary gender norms are woven into each arena and it also explores the multiple ways in which interlocking systems of heteronormativity, casteism, class and ableism are enmeshed within patriarchy to create exclusion, marginalisation, pathologisation and violence. This book illustrates the multiplicity of ways in which people live gender and testifies that even if there are gender laws, in a just world there can be no gender outlaws. Published by Zubaan.
Author : Anis Kidwai
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8194760577
Dust of the Caravan is a selection of writings by Anis Kidwai sketching the personal and political journey of a Muslim woman through the first eight decades of the 20th century. In Kidwai’s often humorous and always incisive and compassionate telling of the travels that took her from a birth and upbringing in rural Awadh into the maelstrom of Partition and its aftermath, lies a rich tapestry of tales. Simultaneously a social history of life in rural Awadh in the early 20th century and the birth of the national movement in the region as well as an account of the traditions of mutual respect and understanding between different faiths in a shared culture and the rupture of those very traditions during Partition, this book is also the story of a woman’s journey from the home into the world and from ‘family values’ towards autonomous beliefs, friendships, and activism. In addition to its value as a literary work, Dust of the Caravan is an important resource in the fields of history, sociology, and gender studies.
Author : Yin Marsh
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9384757993
The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th-century horror story familiar to many destined to “live in interesting times.” Yet, some stories remain untold. Such is the account of the internment of ethnic Chinese who had settled for many years in northern India. When the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962 broke out, over 2,000 Chinese-Indians were rounded up, placed in local jails, then transported over a thousand miles away to the Deoli internment camp in the Rajasthan Desert. Born in Calcutta in 1949, and raised in Darjeeling, Yin Marsh was just thirteen years old when first her father was arrested, and then she, her grandmother and her eight-year-old brother were all taken to the Darjeeling Jail, then sent to Deoli. Ironically, Nehru – India’s first Prime Minister and the one who had authorized the mass arrests – had once “done time” in Deoli during India’s war for independence. Yin and her family were assigned to the same bungalow where Nehru had also been unjustly held. Eventually released, Marsh emigrated to America with her mother, attended college, married and raised her own family, even as the emotional trauma remained buried. When her own college-age daughter began to ask questions and when a friend’s wedding would require a return to her homeland, Yin was finally ready to face what had happened to her family. Published by Zubaan.
Author : Manjima Bhattacharjya
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9789390514311
A profile of the history of sex work and the sexual economy in Mumbai, India's cultural and financial capital. In Intimate City, Manjima Bhattacharjya examines how globalization and technology have changed where and how sexual commerce is transacted. She maps offline and online geographies of sex work and unearths new perspectives: from changing red-light areas to the world of escort services; from the experiences of massage boys to men in search of casual encounters cruising the internet highways. Through these fascinating narratives, Bhattacharjya analyzes how the internet has reconfigured intimacies in the digital age. In doing so, she offers a new lens to look at long-held feminist understandings of sex work, choice, consent, and agency against the backdrop of the "maximum city" of Mumbai.
Author : Saswati Sengupta
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9381017484
As the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata, four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash—the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. Her husband’s silence about his mother and the childhood tragedy that beckons him from the shadowy landing of Kailash, the embroidered handkerchiefs in an old soap box in her father-in-law’s room and the presence of the old, green-eyed Pishi intrigue Uma. But it is only as she begins to read aloud the traditional Chandimangal composed by her husband’s grandfather to celebrate the goddess that the smothered stories begin to emerge... The novel weaves in the history of the militant goddess recast as wife, the Portuguese in Bengal, the rise of print and the making of memories from the swadeshi movement to the turbulent sixties in Bengal as Uma discovers that the foundation of Kailash is not only very deep but also camouflages the stink of death. Published by Zubaan.
