Are Indian family WhatsApp Groups promoting salient misogyny? This book review is written by Bilal Khan of Christ University, Bengaluru. As a student of English Literature, Bilal is fascinated with book reviews and opinion pieces on poetries. What is the English Canon? Or, to start, what is even a canonical body? To reduce it to […]
Drone laws: Recent updates and privacy concerns
This post is written by Adv. Gurpreet Das. Gurpreet’s research interests are commercial laws, privacy, technology and drone laws. The technological development and its use in our daily life have made the human life simpler. In every field, it is difficult for us to achieve the goal without the use of technology. The technologies […]
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 […]
Gender neutrality and power dynamics in public spaces
This post has been written by Brinn Pierce, a student of International Development Studies at University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include gender and sexuality. The binary bathroom system is a near-complete colonial construct. Our society has long ago accepted this system as fact. In truth, It has helped create this fact, and in […]
How has the pandemic amplified doomscrolling?
The post is written by Ashima Gupta of Law College, Dehradun. Doomscrolling????As we all know the meaning of ‘Doom’, it means darkness and evil and the word ‘scrolling’ means that an individual cannot stay on one article and heshe keeps scrolling to the different articles. The practice of doomscrolling has gained momentum during the time […]
The Defeat of Choice: Reflections on the abortion laws
This post is written by Bilal Khan, a student at Christ University, Bengaluru. In today’s cosmopolitan world, it is almost impossible to not register even slight changes in other countries. But the Supreme Court of the USA’s decision was anything but unnoticeable. On 24 June 2022 Roe Vs Wade ruling was overruled. But what does […]
Let’s make some space for gender and sexuality
This post is written by Bilal Khan, English (Hons.) student at Christ University, Bengaluru. June 2022 is about to end, and we would like to farewell Pride Month with a quick read about Gender, Identity and Sexual Orientation. All three of these terms are essential for understanding the complexities of the larger discourse surrounding them. […]
Religious extremism in India: Hereto and the aftermath
This post is written by Priya Goel, a student of Lady Shriram College for Women in New Delhi. In a country like India, where the term ‘secular’ is enshrined in the constitution but the real daily life practices of the religious sects of the country speak otherwise, it is gullible to interpret the reasons […]
Ask “Why?” : A case for ethnic minorities
This post is written by Dr. Allswell Eno is the founder of The Black of Respect Campaign. We see, hear and read it all the time, don’t we, especially in the American media – “black woman”, “black female”, ” black man”, “black male”, “black boy”, “black girl”, “white woman”, “white man”, “white female”, “white […]
Agnipath Protests: The Erasure of Dissent
This post is written by Bilal Khan, a student of English Honours at Christ University, Bengaluru. Bilal’s research interests include English and Cultural Studies. In one of our latest blogs, we discussed the ins and outs of the new Army Recruitment process, the Agnipath Scheme. Understandably, whoever is “reading” about the scheme is a person […]
