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 …
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 …
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 …
Ashwin Varghese Having been a student of humanities and social sciences in higher educational institutions in Delhi for over a decade, I have become acutely aware of how gendered our classrooms are. The perception of colleges and levels of degrees as being suitable for certain genders was very common during my college years. Looking at …
Vishakha Singhania Vishakha Singhania Research Scholar in the field of Spiritual Communication and Corporate Feminism at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar.
Ashwin Varghese A time use sheet, when filled reflectively, can be a potent tool to learn about gender and privilege. I was privy to this exercise during a WISCOMP workshop on Gender and Higher Education held at Kanya Maha Vidyala, Jalandhar. Time-Use Surveys are a methodological tool deployed to decipher in detail the daily activities …
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Johanna Rabindran Although, technically speaking, all humans eat food, the practices related to cooking, eating, and feeding are deeply embedded in culture and identity. Politics and power are reflected in food practices (the vegan movement, the beef ban, malnutrition, and so on). In The Anthropology of Food and Body, Counihan argues that as a site …
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