Sita

suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of others for purposes of prostitution, if those laws provide harsher conditions than those provided by the Convention. In the year 1956 the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act (SITA) was passed, which was amended and changed into Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1986 also known as PITA. The act came into force on 26th January 1987. It is the main statute dealing with prostitution or sex work in India. The objective of…

article, "A Beauty Pageant Ban”, in Scholastic News, India is banning all beauty pageants because "Nudity and obscenity cannot be parameters for determining beauty. Indian girls should try to emulate Mother Teresa, Chand Bibi, Maharani Laxmi Bai and Sita. No religion allows its daughters to expose their bodies to win competitions". Child pageants are so frowned upon that two of the most fashion forward countries have completely banned the competitions and it is very frowned…

The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

From time immemorial, human race had wandered the length and breadth of the earth in search of food, shelter and suitable climatic condition. Some of our ancestors had left strong imprints on the face of the Earth to be exhumed, discovered, and deciphered by us. Thus, History had begun recording most of the events and continues recording even in our present day. Upon carefully analysing the History of our past and present we realise that man has experienced cultural crisis, dislocation,…

What is the possibility that you could sell your latest Instagram post for $100,000? I think I am a very good looking guy but not that good looking to where someone would want to purchase it for that much. Richard Prince is an American artist who is doing just that. He is taking Instagram posts and altering them a bit and selling them for thousands of dollars. Prince is a notorious copycat artist who has made a very good living off of this. Now, one might ask, how is this man copying stuff from…

Deshpande implores women to discover themselves. Madhu writes the biography Savitribai Indorekar, Doyen of Hindustani music but Madhu doesn’t like writing the biography because she understands that it is not the original order of the story. She thinks that it is she who has the power to make changes in her story. She says, “I can take over Bai’s life ….and make Bai the rebel who rejected the conventions of her times. The feminist who lived her life on her terms. The great artist who struggled…

Heroes recorded throughout the ages are a sort of written version of an archaeological footprint of that specific society within the layers and layers of meaning within the texts. Heroes in this way are not depictions of people, but rather a society’s structure, culture, and standards. The tale of a hero shows the attitude of a society towards adversity, how problems should be dealt with, and what kind of rewards they should strive to earn, whether it is knowledge, riches, love, or power.…

The helicopter flew into our forests two days ago, chopping the air like a large dragonfly with gauze wings splayed, plastered in metal and broken. We heard it in the dawn and I wiped the dew wet inside my ears so that I could hear it again, chopping the air through our trees. The men jumped up, and so did he, hush-hushing the fear and surprise. I forgot to breathe. We found it today, sunning itself, its shadow short in the high hours of noon, waiting. By the time I got to it, running, yelling,…

The Dalit Literature that now occupies a seminal space in the contemporary literary domain actually took its birth from the odious system of untouchability and casteism prevalent in the Indian society since ages. It emerged on the scene as a realistic reflection of the conditions of the oppressed classes in India. The literature was essentially against exploitation and formally began as a movement in 1960’s. It was not an ordinary literary movement but a byproduct of identity as well as a…

The human world is a construct, created through man’s manipulation of his environment. It is a world of action, inspired by an unrestricted imagination limited to total human connections. Literature is the language of the imagination. While it is also identified, by Northrop Frye, to be like the human world as it is not just what a human sees, but what a human does with what he sees that makes it human in shape. Literature, in all its forms including as a movie or show, is human in shape…