The Finger Wrap: Irrelevant Protests, Insincere Narratives and Incorrigible Aesthetics

Andy Murray hired the very able Amelie Mauresmo as his coach (until the end of the Wimbledon season in July, for now). Fellow professionals’ ‘reactions’ were sought. People whose reactions weren’t sought threw in their twopence anyway. It appears the world isn’t ready to hear about a woman coaching a man. Here’s  everything totally irrelevant that you’d never need to know about this year’s rising tennis stars if they were men.

In Bangalore, a woman staying in a PG was burgled by a cab driver, who broke in and also raped her. While the man has been arrested, the owner of her PG has also been arrested and named the number two accused for destroying evidence. He was the first person she told of the incident, but he warned her not to approach the police and cleaned her room, wiping away bloodstains, footprints and fingerprints.

How, by mistakenly calling the Badaun victims Dalit and focusing on their rape, not their murder, we are using the incident to suit narratives we seek to interrogate with little sincerity.

Preity Zinta has filed a case of molestation against her former boyfriend and business partner Ness Wadia. She alleges that he molested, abused and threatened her at Wankhede stadium.

Four men have been arrested for drugging and raping two girls from Jharkhand. They assaulted the girls after promising to help them when they missed their train at Delhi’s Anand Vihar Station in May.

Here’s what life is like for Indian women in politics. Fourteen percent face sexual violence, 45 percent face physical violence, 49 percent face verbal abuse and 12 percent say they have been kidnapped.

Because we love movies: 20 great films with multiple female leads that pass the Bechdel Test.

Kristen Wiig may turn director in her next film. About which the world knows very little, beyond the fact that it will be about “best friends who find themselves in over their heads and out of their depths.”

Alcoholic women writers. Are their stories the same as that of male ones?

See if this doesn’t have you giggling. Five hundred years of western art history told through the relationship between men and leddis.