The Wire controversy ….. In early October, the India-based news reporting site The Wire and Social Metaverse company Meta was involved in an internet battle that grabbed serious media headlines. It all started with stories that the Wire put up against Meta, alleging the latter of giving the IT head of the ruling Bharatiya Janta […]
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Independent Thought vs. Union of India : Exploring the intricacies of marital rape laws in India [Case Comment]
Introduction On October 11, 2017, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India issued a landmark judgment in criminalizing sexual intercourse with child brides above 15 years and recognizing their right to bodily integrity irrespective of marital status. As Hon’ble Madan Lokur, J., expressed in Shakespeare’s eternal view that ‘a rose by any other name would […]
Gender pronouns and personal choice: Exploring the unexplored
Gender is indeed one of our complex volatile identities that we construct through our social interactions. Gone are the days when the concept of ‘gender’ was perceived to biological binaries of ‘men and women’. The society has indeed evolved from such Parsonian views towards a more complex ethnomethodological understanding of gender as a constructed social […]
Editorial Opportunity at Sociological Research Online (SRO)
British Sociological Association is calling for Editors for its Sociological Research Online venture. About SRO Sociological Research Online is a joint collaboration between SAGE publications and British Sociological Association which started in 1996. It primarily focusses on several sociological issues with the idea of finding new ways of publishing and communicating. The journal publishes high-quality […]
Meditation and The Flow of Life: Simple Ways To Improve Mental Health
Life has its own rhythm. A flow of its own. When we train the mind through meditation, we are committing to listening to that rhythm, to be an active participant in the unfolding of time. This is how we start taking baby steps towards improving our mental health. But for most of us, as we […]
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications inviting Call for Papers: Deadline 26th March 2023
SCOPUS indexed journal Humanities & Social Science Communications is inviting Call for Papers. Deadline: 23rd March 2023 Theme: Climate, energy and environmental policy: from formulation to implementation About the theme: The sustained global economic growth achieved over the past half century has transformed the lives of billions of people, yet this has not come without […]
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Call for Papers: Jus Corpus Law Journal [Volume 3 Issue 1]: Rolling Submissions
About the Journal Jus Corpus is an open-access journal and invites manuscripts on any theme related to law. All professors, scholars, academicians, students, and all researchers at large for publishing papers in the field of law are invited. Eligibility Entries from scholars including students pursuing bachelor’s or Master’s Courses in Law would be accepted. Submission […]
Are Indian family WhatsApp Groups promoting salient misogyny?
Sexism, closeted or otherwise, has an unfortunate but almost inevitable presence in Indian Family Whatsapp Groups. Growing up in a middle-class family, I was added to my family WhatsApp group when I was 17. The always ongoing conversations never fascinated me, and the usual birthday messages were always dreaded. I naturally muted the text notifications […]
