![]() ![]() Her note was dressed as a confession - detailing her initial shame and the constant fear of being found out - but her assertion made it a declaration. On 20 January 2016, t hree days after young scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, Dutt wrote a note on Facebook, titled “Today, I’m coming out as Dalit”. ” Her friend’s wholesome acceptance empowered her. The disclosure and the secrecy associated with it made her feel like she was admitting to murdering someone. Otherwise, it felt like I was deceiving her.” She revealed she is from a lower caste -“an SC”. Sitting with her friend on a pleasant winter evening at Delhi’s Connaught Place, Yashica Dutt knew she had to confide. Jaipur Literature Festival: Yashica Dutt wrote a memoir, Coming Out As Dalit penning down her experiences, her constant pretension of being from an upper caste and wilful denial. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Unfamiliarity with the name Maila Niemi (who changed her last name to Nurmi) is understandable. The next-of-kin at Maila Niemi’s demise, Sandra Niemi fought her way into the decease’s last apartment to discover a treasure trove of previously unknown diaries, notes, letters never sent, photographs, all from the person rather than the public figure. Many readers will have come from a family where somewhere amidst the extension is a round person unable to fit into the square hole of family ethos. ![]() She states right from the get-go that she idolized her aunt. ![]() This twelve-years-in-the-making book is lovingly written by Sandra Niemi, Maila Niemi’s niece. Frequently, they strive to present an unbiased view of the life of a person famous for any number of reasons. It is normal for biographers to be fascinated by their subjects. Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. ![]() Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing.” - The Washington Post Book World A stirring defense of informed rationality. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.Ĭasting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”- Los Angeles Times ![]() A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My caller rose with red cheeks and flashing eyes. It seems to me that her case is more pitiable than that of the store clerk.” According to that, your maid is on her feet at least eleven hours a day with a score of stair-climbings included. “At what work? Washing? Ironing? Sweeping? Making beds? Cooking? Washing dishes? … Perhaps she sits for two hours at her meals and preparing vegetables, and four days in the week she has an hour in the afternoon. “… (S)he can often sit down at her work.” “At six.” “And at what hour does she finish at night?” “Why, I don’t know,” she gasped, “five or six I suppose.” Jones,” said I, “how many hours a day does your maid stand upon her feet?” “The girls,” she said, “have to stand on their feet ten hours a day and it makes my heart ache to see their tired faces.” In 1902 the author of an article entitled “A Nine-Hour Day for Domestic Servants” described a conversation with a feminist friend who had asked her to sign a petition urging employers to furnish seats for women clerks. The convenient omission of household workers’ problems from the programs of “middle-class” feminists past and present has often turned out to be a veiled justification-at least on the part of the affluent women-of their own exploitative treatment of their maids. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the conditions of domestic service. “White women-feminists included-have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. ![]() ![]() Valenti sheds light on the value - and hypocrisy - around the notion that girls remain virgin until they’re married by putting into context the historical question of purity, modern abstinence-only education, pornography, and public punishments for those who dare to have sex. ![]() Morals are therefore linked purely to sexual behavior, rather than values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. Through in-depth cultural and social analysis, Valenti reveals that powerful messaging on both extremes - ranging from abstinence curriculum to Girls Gone Wild infomercials - place a young woman’s worth entirely on her sexuality. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country’s intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. ![]() The United States is obsessed with virginity - from the media to schools to government agencies. ![]() |