1. Contextual background Students all over the world, especially those heavily dependent on school teaching and teachers, have been through tumultuous changes in the past three years. These changes are not only accrued to the Coronavirus Pandemic but to the systemic changes that have been introduced in the way we teach our students. This is […]
Looking back into Hergé’s Tintin, Is it racist? A post-colonial perspective
The Adventures of Tintin is a world-famous comic series created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi, beginning in 1929. (1907-1983). The series consists of 24 albums, beginning with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets in 1930 and ending with Tintin and the Alph-Art (unfinished album). Tintin’s Adventures has captivated children […]
Kimberle Crenshaw: Celebrating Black Feminism
Kimberle W. Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.[i] She is a professor at Columbia Law School, along with being a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and specializes and gender rights and social […]
Report: Your Voice Magazine Launch (Issue 1)
On the 29th of October 2022, the Dialogue Box organized a virtual event to commemorate the launch of the first edition of its magazine, Your Voice. The event saw scholars and academicians from all across the globe, from Sussex to Ahmedabad, come together to unfold not just the start of Dialogue Box’s venture but to […]
Does India need “Comprehensive Sexuality Education”?
About the Author …. Subhashree Pattanayak, a final year student of Master of Education at The Institute of Education for Women, Hastings House, Kolkata, The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration. Sex is a hush-hush topic of discussion behind closed doors in India to date. Ironically, openly talking about sex is […]
Menstruation the dirty word: Can talking about it within households improve the condition?
Are Indian family WhatsApp Groups promoting salient misogyny? This post is written by Sanjana Choudhury, a student of Media Studies in Delhi University. The history of how sanitary pads came into being dates long back in time when pads were silent coupons. Like every other thing essential to life and sustenance, pads too were created […]
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 […]
Journey from Classroom to Laptop screen: Transformation towards effective online teaching
Unpreparedness among teachers Since time immemorial we as teachers have been accustomed to teach in a classroom. Classrooms have been our area of interacting with young minds. As teachers we had the liberty to use black/white board, promote hands on learning, and use as many resources available in the class. But, this sudden shift of […]
