Engendering Practices

Mental​ Load

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 …

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Meenu’s Musings

My grandmother died suddenly in early 2019. I sat by her side the night before she died, stroking her arm. In the four days after she passed,  I hugged more people than I usually do in a month. In regular times, I don’t feel very comfortable with touch, but in my grief, the embraces, the …

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#Call for Entries

Care, Mutuality, Fraternity What makes a campus a community? How do we reimagine care, mutuality, and community as what B.R. Ambedkar called forms of “associated living, or conjoint, communicated experience,” in the university? Given the gendered nature of all university spaces, does the responsibility to care disproportionately fall on women? How do we think with …

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Pandemic and Displacement of Healthcare to Domestic Care

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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