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Dec 5, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Kavita Krishnan
2 hours agoU.S. military personnel at Space Command, in Colorado Springs, have kept a close eye on Cosmos 2553 ever since it reached orbit. Bathed in the bluish glow of their computer screens, they sit and watch what’s going across all of space day after day, tracking the latest information on satellite …
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Kavita Krishnan
Alexandr Dugin, a prominent Putinist ideologue from Russia, was in Delhi last week. There has been no critical scrutiny of his visit among political analysts, intellectuals, and democratic rights activists. This is an indifference we can ill afford. Dugin represents a global ideological campaign against democracy that is fast gaining ground among diverse publics worldwide, including in India. If you are a defender of democracy and secularism in India, you cannot afford to ignore Dugin.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Kavita Krishnan
The judiciary must show the courage and the will to dismantle the BJP's encroachments on constitutional democracy. On 9 November, the Supreme Court said, “Bulldozer justice is simply unacceptable under the rule of law...Justice through bulldozers is unknown to any civilized system of jurisprudence.” On the same day, at a by-election campaign rally addressed by UP CM Yogi Adityanath, his supporters staged their arrival on bulldozers.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Kavita Krishnan
NowHow the Democrats Bud Lighted their brandLast spring, a marketing grunt at Bud Light sent TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, a trans woman, custom cans of beer featuring her picture.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Kavita Krishnan
A government that wants to silence women to maintain the fiction that its nation is perfect, is dangerous. A student at Jain University in Bangalore asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to comment on the systemic inequality women have to overcome in a patriarchal world. In reply, the Minister derided her concerns, exclaiming “What’s patriarchy ya.” She then scolded and shamed her for expressing those concerns. What she said is not new.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Kavita Krishnan
The CJI's eloquence assaults me with a dreadful dissonance. It may have been merciful to accustom us to silence. “How will history judge my tenure,” asked Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud as he began his final month in office. In my adult lifetime, there have been few Supreme Court judges or CJIs more erudite, educative, eloquent (and dare I say loquacious) than Justice DY Chandrachud.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Kavita Krishnan
No one on the Left should allow Dissanayake and his party to cover up their crimes with a red flag. Less than a fortnight after Sri Lanka elected a new president, Anura Kumar Dissanayake, Tamil women gathered to observe International Children’s Day (1 October) — a day of mourning for their loved ones who “disappeared” while in military custody. For a decade-and-a-half, they have been demanding an international mechanism to find out the fate of their loved ones.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Kavita Krishnan
Last year, at a closed door tribunal, I met several very young transpersons from rural and urban working class communities. It was heartbreaking to see teenagers brutalised and evicted by family, surviving suicide attempts as well as persecution and violence on the streets. In the stormy debates on the ‘transgender question’, their voices remind me of what stakes are real. This is not about western culture wars, or debates over sex, gender, or sports.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
apdirect.in | Kavita Krishnan
Of course “not all men” rape. But why insist that a woman saying “#MeToo” is accusing “you too” of rape? Agreed. Not all men rape. Not all men are predators. Women love, trust, and respect many wonderful men in their lives. The thing is: most protests focus on punishing men for rape-murder. The subject of preventing rape is addressed almost exclusively by telling women what they can do to prevent being raped.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Kavita Krishnan
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is guaranteed a silver medal in women’s boxing. She might even win gold tonight. But any celebrations of her achievement are being drowned out by a ‘debate’ on whether Imane Khelif is a woman or a male imposter who stole what rightfully belonged to women. The people leading the charge against Imane are very powerful and influential.
