Sexual Favous for a Signature - My short story in Dinamalar

Hello Sridhar Sir,

New to IL, but have been reading all your posts without fail except for this one :-( ( i cant read tamil fluently...... , even though i'm a tamilian was born and brought up in karnataka...so learnt to read and write tamil when i was in my 10th grade , and cant read quite fluently)...You Rock Sridhar Sir...havent commented on any of your posts, but wanted to take this opportunity to do so. i like your narration style and also the practical touch to your articles.

Is there an english version of this article? Sorry to be bothering you, but if there is can you post it , so that we non tamil readers can read your article.

Thanks,
Bindu

 

Dear Varalotti,

As you have requested, I am giving glimpses of work done by my wife in some of the problems especially the 'Sexual harassment at workplace'.

There is a famous Supreme court Vishaka judgement and as I understand a bill to prevent sexual harassment is before parliment and the following link outlines the case and you can find her (Sheela Ramanathan) as one of the participants in the consultation on the law.
Consultation on the Proposed Bill,A National Consultation on the sexual harassment bills was held on the 23rd and the 24th of October 2004 involving organizations from across the country, working on the issue of sexual harassment at work place.

Next, her involvement in the movement against violence on women is brought out in this link. Orissa « Indian Maoist

Her work against the illegal arrest of women in Bangalore is shown in the following link. The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Arrested women separated from their children

She had an extensive tour of Karnataka in fact finding mission on Child marriages which is brought out in the next link:
The Hindu : Front Page : PIL seeks policy to prevent child marriages

There are many more.

Regards,

TDU

 

HI Varalotti,
Do you have an english translation for this story ? Fans like me who cannot read this language would really appreciate
Ruchi

 

Dear Sridhar,

That was really nice of you to bring this story to us.
Enjoyed reading it and felt avenged. The story brings a poetical justice to the horrid sexual harassment experienced by women.
In my cocooned life, I am fortunate not to have experienced anything of the sort first hand. I can gladly say that my daughters too have been spared such unsavory incidents till now and I pray to God that it remains so.
I think it must be one of the vilest violations to womanhood.
Many horrid things happen these days and one does really feel angered at such crude behaviour of humans.


L, Kamla

 

Dear TDU,

Hats of to your wife and the human rights law network for championing for such good causes. all our support to your wife and her network.

1. Would really be nice if your wife can come out with a list of things to do and not to do when harassed at workplace or anywhere.

2. What can we do to help a cause like this.

:2thumbsup:

Love,
Shanthi.

 

Dear Shanti,

Thanks for your compliments and I shall pass on them on to her. Sure, I will request her to come to this forum and discuss more on this issue. Meanwhile, here is an article which analyses thouroughly and tells what to do and what not to do in the matter of sexual harassment at workplace. As I have mentioned earlier there is a law to prevent sexual harassment before parliment for its approval as I understand. This article has been published in 'Combat Law' journal in which my wife is in the editorial board.

Identify/Recognise Harassment Ask yourself the following: - Do I consent to the behaviour? - Does the behaviour make me uncomfortable? - Does the behaviour violate my dignity as an individual? - Does it violate my right to work in dignity in a safe working environment? <hr color="red" size="1"> Do not blame yourself. Don't ignore sexual harassment in the hope that it will go away.

Workplace sexual harassment, from Volume 2, Issue 3, of Combat Law

Regards,

TDU