With Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh ousted from power on Sunday, New Delhi is alarmed by the events that have unfolded subsequently. Following a 36-days student protest against the reservation quotas for government jobs in Bangladesh, Hasina’s Government eventually succumbed on Sunday. A detailed blog has been written earlier on this issue. […]
Rabindranath Tagore’s literature and the theme of resistance
Rabindranath Tagore: The patriot Rabindranath Tagore, as a theatrician, occupies a very important position in the history of Bengal theatre. Writing at a time when theatre practices in Bengal were still in a very nascent stage, Tagore introduces an air of freshness. Though initially he drew inspiration from the European dramas, those of Shakespeare and […]
That Tree Outside My Window
Sometimes my house feels stuffy and even scary. It feels like there are strangers living within these walls …. Strangers like the ones who side eye my mother in her religious attire reminding her that wearing that dress is a ghastly sin. Sometimes my house doesn’t feel like home. It feels unfamiliar and uncomfortable, dark […]
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 […]
Indian cinema and its jaw-dropping affinity to male chauvinism
This post is written by Ishita Goyal, a student of Symbiosis Law School, Noida. Her research interests include sstudy of social behavior and law. To quote the words of D. Bhoopaty, “cinema is widely considered a microcosm of the social, political, economic, and cultural life of a nation”. It is true that the impact of the […]
Trolling culture and its astonishing sexist traits
This post is written by Ritabrata Roy who is a Doctoral Tutor at University of Sussex, Law School. Women with a public platform get more shit than their male counterparts. And now what’s long been known through anecdote and, in some cases, unpleasant direct experience has some numbers behind it. In a study of the […]
Human orgasm and its gender gap
Nicole Andrejek (@NicoleAndrejek) is a qualitative researcher on the Sex in Canada project at McMaster University and at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her research interests include analyses of Canadians’ gender gaps, sexual practices, sexual health, and sexual pleasure. Her forthcoming book, Dating in the Digital Age (Routledge), examines undergraduate women’s experiences […]
5 tips to write a winning research proposal !!!
This blog is written by Ritabrata Roy who is a Doctoral Tutor at University of Sussex Law School. His research interests are topics on honour crimes, gender studies and sexuality issues. TIP 1. Have a clear title …. Always begin with a CLEAR title. Oh its an absolute must! Let’s look at it in this […]
Misogynistic “Motherfu***er!” : Reflections on the underlined sexism in cuss words
This post is written by Ritabrata Roy, Doctoral Tutor at University of Sussex, Law School, UK. Do you cuss often? No that’s not the question that I intend to ask here. Well .. we all do. Indeed cuss words have become an integral part of our daily vocabulary. It is certainly not my job here […]
The ‘Muslim Question’ in West Bengal’s electoral politics: A Critical Analysis of the Assembly Elections 2021
This post is written by Ritabrata Roy, PhD Scholar at University of Sussex, UK I. CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND The state of West Bengal occupies a distinct place within the political demography of Indian sub-continent since pre-independence era. Throughout the three centuries-old colonial history of India, Calcutta (now Kolkata) which was the capital of Bengal also […]
