Yanis Iqbal

2 weeks ago | countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal

Patriarchy has started a new PR campaign – rebranding the male jailors as emotionally wounded inmates. In The Indian Express, for instance, Shraddha Upadhyay that while “masculinity poses an obvious danger for women,” it is “self-destructive for men as well”. At the heart of this assertion is the myth of male inarticulacy. The author writes: “Men have not collectively spent enough time articulating their experience.” What sounds as progressive empathy is actually an elision of patriarchal power.

3 weeks ago | countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal

In 2024, the Supreme Court of India noted that what is primary in the determination of the minority character of an institution is not the “existence of a religious place for prayer and worship” or “the existence of religious symbols” but the objective of providing “benefit” to “a religious or linguistic minority community”. This means that “educational institutions could be established for minorities to provide secular education without imparting any lessons on religion”.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Suparna Banerjee |Shreya Singh |Vikas Meshram |Yanis Iqbal

“Rape cases are on the rise because boys and girls interact more freely now. Earlier, if men and women held hands, they would be caught and reprimanded by parents, but now everything is so open. It’s like an open market with open options.”Mamata Banerjee, CM West Bengal, 2012.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Shreya Singh |Vikas Meshram |Yanis Iqbal |Nilofar Suhrawardy

The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) expresses its deep shock and strongly condemns the recent judgment of the Allahabad High Court, dated March 19, delivered by Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, which stated that “grabbing the breast of a girl and breaking her pant string is not an attempt to rape, but an attempt to sexually molest.”The judgment came in the context of an incident in 2021 when an 11-year-old girl was attacked by two men in Kasganj area of Uttar Pradesh.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Tamanna Joshi |zeenat khan |Bhabani Nayak

The emergence of feminist politics has led to a patriarchal counter-revolution that pays lip-service to “equality” while insisting that women and men should occupy different, separate places in society. In the case of Islamists, this ideology takes the following form: Islam recognizes the equality of men and women but underlines their separate and complementary roles/responsibilities based on God-given differences.