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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Zobia Salam Of the many valuable things a young woman can be, perhaps being a ’lady’ is still a priority. I say this after chancing upon an advertisement for a very different kind of educational space: a finishing school. Give us a girl, the ad says, and take back a lady. Finishing schools as formal …
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