I was really happy to find that Kalpana Sharma, outstanding journalist from Mumbai, and author of 'Rediscovering Dharavi,' has a blog that archives her writings. Here is the link.

Stories like this never cease to intrigue me...

Quoted: Shouldn't there be about as many highly eligible and appealing men as there are attractive, eligible women? Here's a look at how economics and game theory can explain the shortage of available, appealing men.

doing research for a paper i'm writing on contemporary masculinity

Quoted: Lifestyle marketing guru Mark Simpson, who infamously coined the phrase metrosexual, has invented a new buzzword ‘sporno’ to describe the increasingly gay porn style poses adopted in pictures by sportsmen including David Beckham and the Italian natio

Fascinating but disheartening study about how effective female leaders receive lower approval ratings than their less effective male counterparts. Of course, there are many variables to consider... but it's still a troubling finding.

Quoted: The possibility that America will elect its first woman president has triggered the inevitable onslaught of one-liners, and a serious discussion about how America might change with a woman in the Oval Office. As luck would have it, there's new data out there about the shifts that take place when women run the world. Or at least a bunch of Indian villages.

Awesome article. I always envied the girls whose parents had enough money to send them to an all-girls school. I can't count the number of times teachers had to stop the class to deal with immature asshole boys in my school--and it was ALWAYS boys--all the way up through high school.

Quoted: I have the answer: a congestion-charge-style tax on parents who insist on polluting girls' education with their testosterone-fuelled little monsters. The money could go toward ...

A fascinating speech exploring gender roles and how they have come to be. I expect this will be considered controversial by many, and obvious to some.

one of my gf's two gender related live journal sites

critique of harry potty movie poster by seattle online indie press