A Classroom of Hate. And Nobody Belongs There.
By Faiza Nazrin There is a particular kind of cowardice in targeting a professor inside their own classroom. Not through argument, not through debate, but through a hidden recording device — capturing words spoken in the trust of an academic space, then weaponising them online. This is what has happened to Professor Vqueeram Aditya Sahai,…
She Who Can Do It All, But Does She Have To?
By Sampada Gumber She cooks, cleans, takes care of the kids, and still manages to do her job with perfection. “She who can do it all”, people say this with admiration, often adding, “What a superwoman!” We’ve all heard this phrase, and even said it ourselves. It’s meant as praise, but if we look closer,…
The Influence of Patriarchy on Gender-Based Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts
By Akshita Verma Armed conflicts are happening all around us, and these conflicts tell us so much more—they act as a mirror into our society. The actions of humankind in the absence of law are reflected in these conflicts. Since we are a part of a society and how we behave is influenced by our…
Dreams My Mother Had
By Agamya Chandra My mother rarely spoke about her dreams.Sometimes she mentioned them in passing, half-laughing, half-distracted, as if they were small, private things that didn’t belong in daylight. But I do remember the ones she shared with me. They were never grand, not the kind that reached for distant places or impossible lives. Her…
On Anti-Intellectualism & Feminisation of Humanities—Why They Feed Each Other?
By Faiza Nazrin The humanities have long occupied an uneasy position within modern academia—respected as the custodian of critical and cultural knowledge, yet increasingly dismissed as impractical or indulgent. This tension has intensified in recent decades as universities and governments surrender to capitalist market-driven approaches to education where worth is measured in terms of employability,…
An Incomplete Feminism: Female Faces in High Places
By: Khushi M. In November of 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman remarked in response to a question at an event in a Bangalore college1, “What’s patriarchy, ya? If you’re able to stand up and speak for yourself logically, which is that patriarchy, which is (sic) going to say, “Oh, shut up, sit down.” Impossible. Not…
MARRIAGE EQUALITY AND LIBERATION THROUGH ACCEPTANCE OF A NORM
By: Diya Maria George The entire basis of the fight for marriage equality is an apparent “acceptance” of queerness through normalization of homosexuality, but should queer Indians really fight for accommodation into a discriminatory system built to exclude us? Queer Liberation is now conceptualized as gaining rights through diplomatic justice-seeking systems of Judiciary & Legislature.…
The Queerness of War
By: Esther I woke up this morning, exhausted, unable to move a limb. Forcing myself off the bed, I told myself I needed to do this. Getting dressed took an hour and a half. I had already missed two classes, and that was okay. I planned on meeting my therapist at 11 anyway. I’ve missed…
“THE GATEWAY TO THE WORLD WAS OUTSIDE THE REACH OF HIM”: REPRESENTATION OF MATRIARCHY AND ITS LEGACY
By Samriddhi Narayan “There is a good principle that created order, light, and man, and a bad principle that created chaos, darkness, and woman.” ~Pythagoras History is a contentious territory; one cannot exist in History if the desired prerequisites are not met. These, of course, are devised arbitrarily at the round table conference of the…
WOMEN THROUGH THE LENS OF ARISTOPHANES
By Ananya Atrishya TW: Mention of rape A silenced victim, a violated soul, a trapped mind, and a dismissed body! With prominent patriarchal norms to follow the condition of women in ancient Greece was pitiful and Greek literature reflected the same. It was something intimate, frequent and inseparable and played a critical role in exhibiting…
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