Reason & Justice

(might as well try)

• The Hindu’s Coverage of Women’s Tennis: US Open 2023
  The US Open 2023 concluded yesterday, and throughout the tournament I kept track of how my newspaper – The Hindu – covered the men’s game vs. the women’s game in their sports pages, to see if there was any bias there. (Previously I covered Wimbledon.) This is how I kept score: Column space by cm;Continue reading “The Hindu’s Coverage of Women’s Tennis: US Open 2023”
• The Hindu’s Coverage of Women’s Tennis: Wimbledon 2023
  Wimbledon 2023 concluded yesterday, and throughout the tournament I kept track of how my newspaper – The Hindu – covered the men’s game vs. the women’s game in their sports pages, to see if there was any bias there. (Previously I covered the French Open.) This is how I kept score: Column space by inches;Continue reading “The Hindu’s Coverage of Women’s Tennis: Wimbledon 2023”
• The Hindu’s Coverage of Women’s Tennis: French Open 2023
  The French Open 2023 concluded yesterday, and throughout the tournament I kept track of how my newspaper – The Hindu – covered the men’s game vs. the women’s game in their sports pages. They sourced their main articles from Agence France Presse, and there was a separate “Day in Numbers” section by someone from TheContinue reading “The Hindu’s Coverage of Women’s Tennis: French Open 2023”
• My Grouse With the Mandalorian
  I’m sick of this show. I keep watching this show.
• A Visual Guide to Monstress
  Latest Update September 2025: Volume Nine, “The Posessed”. I’ve been a huge fan of Monstress ever since it started back in 2016. Recently I re-read the whole series, and created a “visual guide” containing people, places and story, because I’ve always found it hard to remember what happened before. If you’re a fan too, youContinue reading “A Visual Guide to Monstress”
• How The Hindu Reports on Male Violence Against Women
  For the last few months, I’ve been taking photos of news reports in The Hindu on male violence against women. The pattern is disheartening.
• Memories of 1984
  A short collection of memories of Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom; written in 2014. With the thirty-year anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom around the corner, Hartosh Singh Bal’s Caravan article “Sins of Commission” is worth reading in full. It describes all that happened then, and all that has happened since – thirty years,Continue reading “Memories of 1984”
• Rape Myths About How Victims “Should” Behave
  I first wrote this in 2014. How deeply sad that it’s all relevant again. In the wake of the Tejpal rape case, some articles and comments in Indian media have propagated certain myths about how “true” rape victims “should” behave. These myths echo depictions of rape in cinema and television, and go something like this:Continue reading “Rape Myths About How Victims “Should” Behave”
• Victim Blaming Analogies
  Note: You might want to read How to Analyse Arguments From Analogy first. Summary This post analyses various arguments from analogy (“AFAs”) used in victim blaming. It also talks about victim blaming in general – what we mean by blame and responsibility, and the psychological causes of victim blaming. Finally, it argues that victim blaming isContinue reading “Victim Blaming Analogies”
• How to Analyse Arguments From Analogy
  Note: You might want to read How to Argue first, to understand the structure of arguments in general. An argument from analogy is similar to what we simply call an analogy, but is different in that it’s an argument, whereas an analogy is usually just a stating of a similarity. “Your driving is like RahulContinue reading “How to Analyse Arguments From Analogy”
• How to Argue
  If you spend any amount of time online, chances are you have been involved in online debates and arguments. Sometimes these things go well, but more often than not it’s a “comment trail war” where multiple participants say all kinds of things and no one is clear what the other person is saying. A hundred-plusContinue reading “How to Argue”
• A Year of Grand Slam Data: Men’s Tennis and Women’s Tennis
  Since the 2013 US Open (this post was originally written in 2014), I’ve been collecting the statistics published by the grand slam tennis tournaments in a spreadsheet. This was prompted by a discussion on sexism in tennis about a year ago, where I saw someone say he didn’t watch women’s tennis these days as itContinue reading “A Year of Grand Slam Data: Men’s Tennis and Women’s Tennis”
• Analysing Arguments: Two Articles on the Death Penalty
  “Analysing Arguments” is going to be an ongoing series of posts which analyse arguments found in the news and online media. Some good background material for this is Coursera’s enormously popular course Think Again: How to Reason and Argue, and the book Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic. You might also find the primerContinue reading “Analysing Arguments: Two Articles on the Death Penalty”

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