Aswini Ashok

What is feminism? Who is a feminist? For me anyone who is remotely annoyed by patriarchy is a feminist. If you are a woman and you feel you have been tactically or out rightly side lined because of your gender and you have the agitation to do something about it, you are a feminist. If you are a man and the fact that you have to work your ass off and always be in a seemingly never ending race and you totally hate this screwed up system, welcome aboard! You are a feminist. But the 'F' word scares us so much that we prefer being called anything but feminists. That includes bizarrely built up words such as Equalist, humanist and what not? Thanks to the patriarchs. The simple reason that equality is never served in a platter and it is the feminine population which is being in the receiving end for ages, hence a little emphasis in the naming would do no harm to human race is still a rocket science for so many to understand. Since the word itself scares

Disclaimer: Based on inputs from "அணு  உலை  அறிவோம்" by J.Prabhakaran., and other sources.  Contains disturbing pictures. Read at own risk. With massive increase in the awareness among common people and widespread reach of media in the form of print, visual and social, the importance delivered to protests concerning environmental impacts have become stupendous. One may argue that with the growing agitation the country will turn zero tolerant to any kind of development project, which will only make the country’s growth spiral backwards. But it is equally important to value and understand the livelihood and emotions of the people and to be a responsible citizen to realize the real cost we pay for every development without rubbishing off the demands of the under privileged in the name of the greater interest of the nation and to equally develop the standard of living of common people without creating a valley between them and nation’s development. The term ‘development’