by Harsahej Mann
There are no facts , only interpretations – Frederick Nietzsche
Epiphany
Blank . Empty . Ephemeral . Ethereal .
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Women’s voice within the Folk Songs of Ladakh
Written by Namgyal Angmo.
The songs which are influenced by the culture, lifestyle and tradition of a certain place -where they are sung- are called folk songs. The songs may differ as per the place, culture and religion. Folk songs represent the culture of contemporary society just as they represent the culture of past generations. How can they do both?
Am I me or you?
Written by Harsahej Mann.
Are you you or them? Am I me or you? What am I, but the experiences I had through you? Am I just another extension cord, leading to you? Is there a me at all? Am I “I” or am I just an artificially induced you?
We do not often realise it, even as it happens. Every second, the edges of our “ self” are grated off by the abrasive gaze of the other . Even as I write this, the grated edges of my “self” may be falling like snowflakes , on the cold hard marble flooring of my room . Whether they are actually falling, I cannot say for as I said we often do not realise it, even while our self is disintegrating into mere dust.
-Sanjana Sharma Sahu
Warning : read at your own risk !
-Harsahej Mann
“Only we riotous livers have imagined that this way was bad , and have invented another . And this other , — what is it ? It is this. The young girls are seated, and the gentlemen walk up and down before them, as in a bazaar and make their choice. The maidens wait and think, but do not dare to say: “ Take me , young man , me and not her. Look at these shoulders and rest.” We males walk up and down and estimate the merchandise, and then we discourse upon the rights of women, upon the liberty she acquires, I know not how , in the theatrical hall !” Leo Tolstoy ( The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories )
“The personal is political” Carol Hanusch
The contagion called feminism has engulfed us all. It is like a disease, the vaccine to which has been ostensibly developed yet the virus within the vaccine has not been wholly inactivated , hence the ineffectiveness of the vaccine called feminism. As females, how liberally emancipated are we ?
Do we and can we call a young girl in a hijab an emancipated woman ? Or does the ambit of liberal emancipation only take into its herald young, cigarette wielding , scantily clad girls ? What of the inner republic of spirit ? Can a burka clad girl be “more -of -an -emancipated – female” than the club going apparition of liberality ?
Take for example , a young girl of 20 , who does none of the above because she finds the concept of making merchandise of herself a purely reprehensible idea . She is totally opposed to the idea of “ hooking – up”. Would you call her emancipated ? Would you include her in the bandwagon of your feminism ? Perhaps not . People talk about all types of inclusivity . Where do people like her go ? Society’s caricature of an emancipated young girl has become so incorrigible , that I fear it will not grant me an entry .
Raw Whispers 