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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Zobia Salam Harvey Weinstein’s conviction in the historic #MeToo cases, more than anything else, comes as a relief. The fruits of women’s struggles are rarely reaped so quickly. Although (relatively) quick, they haven’t come as easy, low lying and within an arm’s reach. This might mean something for India’s academic and higher education spaces, fields …
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 …
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