Bhumika Rajdev CBSE declared the results of class 12th on 13th July 2020. These results play a significant role in the admission procedure for students in colleges as they determine their eligibility to pursue undergraduate courses. As per CBSE class 12th analysis, almost 10 lakh students passed class 12th exams this year out of which …
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Bhumika Rajdev Covid-19 has brought many peculiar yet significant topics on our table for brainstorming and reflection. The continuous debate and discussion regarding conducting of the remaining board exams and university exams of students is one of them. The Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ conducted a webinar with schools on 14 May 2020 and …
Dhritimoni Mahanta The world has been at stake since the last three months, and we all know what we are dealing with. Probably this is most likely going to be a part of our life if the scientists and researchers fail to develop a remedy for this unanticipated global pandemic. However, at this hour of …
Pannaa Priyam Das I’ve had too much time to retrospect these days. And an incident drifted into my mind which took place awhile back- I once shared a post which said: “Why is it cute and trendy for girls to wear men’s flannel shirts and baggy boy’s sweatpants, but when a boy tries anything remotely …
Pannaa Priyam Das Ryan Gosling is one of my favourite actors and I recently watched a movie where his character casually says, “Let’s face it, Cal, all right? The war between the sexes is over, and we won, okay?” Now, I don’t hate the movie, infact, I really did like it, it was a light …
Dhriti Mahanta Justly being provided the Right to education, India has seen a constant rise in the percentage of female assigning themselves to higher education and grabbing opportunities of all sorts and conditions. In the global arena, the ongoing race demands participation and indulgence in all the fields and disciplines .My take here is the …
Johanna Rabindran If you look under April in my planner, you’ll see this item: ‘25 Apr WISCOMP room of one’s own???’ This would have been a neat little text unpacking the idea of ‘educating’ women.1 As you can see, I ended up writing something completely different about the same book. Among other things, the Covid-19 …
Johanna Rabindran Anyone who’s ever peeled a boiled yam will tell you that this task is highly disagreeable. Boiled yams are positively slimy, unbelievably sticky and leave behind a slippery film on your fingers that takes approximately a litre of liquid soap to wash off. In fact, I believe they’re even worse than tiny garlic …
Swastika Jajoo 1. Introducing Dazai’s Schoolgirl As I shared in my last post, Kawaii is a deeply-rooted cultural phenomenon necessitating a specific kind of gender performance. In order to concretize our understanding of the presence of this performance in contemporary society, it is vital to first reflect on the nature of its historical archetype. Osamu …
Johanna Rabindran Coined by black feminist scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality has become a pillar of modern feminism. For the uninitiated, intersectionality explains how overlapping socio-political identities (gender, race, sexuality, class, etc) combine to create unique modes of discrimination. Black women, for example, face a combination of racism and sexism. This approach acknowledges …
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