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Sara Barackzay

Sara Barackzay is  24-year-old animation artist and one of the very first and few in her country to follow animation arts professionaly. For Barackzay, who lost her hearing as a child, animation was a universal language which presented her with a world full of possibilities. Despite the lack of support from her extended family members, she left Afghanistan …

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Lida Abdul

Lida Abdul is the first artist from her country to represent Afghanistan at the 51st edition of the Venice Biennale in 2005.   Her art explores issues of migration, remembrance and memory through performance and video. Born in Kabul but forced to leave her country with her family after Soviet invasion, Abdul’s work provides a thorough examination of …

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War Rugs

Afghan women have been one of the most proficient weavers of hand-made rugs of intricate design for thousands of years. It was in 1979, soon after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that the usuals floral motifs were replaced with images of ammunition and war scenes. Iconography in propaganda leaflets that were dropped from U.S. military …

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Genderlogue 3.0!

Watch the Genderlogue 3.0 discussion here Welcome to the third edition of Log-in Gender’s online discussion forum, Genderlogue 3.0! In early 2020 with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaders and policy makers called for ‘lockdowns’ and declared ‘shelter in place’ orders across the world. This meant that many students, researchers, and educators left their …

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Since All Roads Lead to Home

Anjali Bhatia As we are made aware, the elementary structure of transmission of the Covid-19 infection is made up of three constituents: infected person(s), uninfected persons(s), and the virus (exposure time), transmitted from the infected to the uninfected.  The pandemic form is a serial replication of this structure of random transmission on a global scale, …

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Ignorance is ‘NOT’ Bliss! Status of Transgenders in Higher Education

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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