Bhaswati Mahanta Gender, even though as a social construct, is a way to express my identity. Whereas education is a stepping stone on the path of achieving a more accepting society with less discrimination. The society in which we live has different perspectives of viewing people from different genders. Years of internalized patriarchy and misogyny …
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 …
Rashmi Chakravarty The Centre and State governments have put in an undeniable amount of efforts in the field of education, from including the Happiness Curriculum in schools to extending primary education and secondary education in rural schools, to improve the infrastructure and teaching staff – the Government is doing pretty well. Education is considered the …
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Johanna Rabindran When I was a fresher scrolling through the DU Political Science Syllabus, I set my heart on a particular optional paper offered in the last semester. The paper in question? Feminism: Theory and Practice. Come third year, I found myself dreading the prospect of more feminist theory. Talking around to classmates, I realised …
Ashwin Varghese There is an ongoing pandemic which has caused a global shutdown of travel. Several countries, both advanced capitalist countries like the US, and peripheral capitalistic economies like India, have implemented contingency measures where schools and higher educational institutions are being shut down to curb the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). A common …
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Zobia Salam ‘Tis the season! The season to field questions on what I intend to do after I graduate in May with a degree in Political Science. In order to prepare myself for the barrage of queries about my future that are soon to come knocking anytime in the present, I have begun to ask …
Johanna Rabindran Where are all the women? Shivering in a little huddle, we surveyed the water park, already regretting that we had left our t-shirts in the lockers. My skin prickled as countless pairs of eyes followed our every move. The enthusiasm of the morning had long since evaporated. We bravely pressed on, but after …
Vishakha Singhania Do you think that it is possible to live joyously, come what may? To find out the answer do read on… The year 2019 went by quickly. We created so many thought patterns. We structured and labelled given bits of information in different ways. Various events happened. We liked some of them. We …
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