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 …
Pannaa Priyam Das I’ve had too much time to retrospect these days. And an incident drifted into my mind which took place awhile back- I once shared a post which said: “Why is it cute and trendy for girls to wear men’s flannel shirts and baggy boy’s sweatpants, but when a boy tries anything remotely …
Mrigakshi Devchoudhury Drawing parallels between the characters of Draupadi in the Mahabharata, and Sita in the Ramayana, the present Indian educational system is one of “chivalrous” male students protecting the females in their respective networks. Territories, for lack of a better word. Their protection warrants an inherent ownership of the female students, or at the …
Pannaa Priyam Das Ryan Gosling is one of my favourite actors and I recently watched a movie where his character casually says, “Let’s face it, Cal, all right? The war between the sexes is over, and we won, okay?” Now, I don’t hate the movie, infact, I really did like it, it was a light …
Annanya Kashyap In a world that is becoming more and more inward looking and parochial, understanding the need for equality of opportunities for everyone and strengthening those discriminated based on gender bias is crucial. Social conditioning across the globe has entitled men to think that they are superior. Astonishingly, it has also successfully conditioned a …
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 …
An Audio-Visual Presentation by the Students of Cotton University, Guwahati: Adrita Choudhury, Anansha Borthakur, Atlanta Gogoi, Arunabh Chakravarty, Bedanga K. Goswami, Digangana Das, Harshadeep Kalita, Neha Mahanta, Nikita Kalita, Sanjeevani Saikia, Tanmoya Barman Engaging with the activities in the WISCOMP workshop on Gender Equity and Inclusion held on 11-14 March 2019 at Cotton University, Guwahati, …
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WISCOMP in partnership with Cotton University, Guwahati conducted a three-day dialogue-cum-training workshop for faculty, senior administrators and students on ‘Gender Equity and Inclusion: Transformative Pathways in Higher Education’, at the university from 11-14 March 2019. The workshop was supported by Public Affairs Section, US Embassy, New Delhi. Eminent gender experts and educators from the US …
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