Daily Lobo columnist Ali Mazrui says in his book Cultural Forces in World Politics that the gender revolution was intended in Islam but never took off. According to Mazrui, it got aborted for two reasons: Mainstream Islam turned royalist from the Ummayids onwards as a result of which the harem developed and because the doors of Ijtihad, or intellectual effort, closed.
On March 14, Nandigram, India, a small farming village about 100 miles from Calcutta, faced the realities and horrors of globalization. The communist government of West Bengal brought in police to beat up people who were united under the umbrella of Save our Farmland against the government's plan to develop a chemical hub and an economic processing zone in the region.
by Rinita Mazumdar Daily Lobo columnist The word feminism evokes anger, curiosity, disdain, laughter and jeers from men and women around the globe. In so far as this reaction is concerned, feminism shares its fate with other resistance and new social movements, such as the workers' movement in the 19th century.
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