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 […]
Curious Case of Caste Based Census in India: Should We Go For it?
Caste based census is often touted as the need of the hour for India. However, such a move comes with its pros and cons. In this blog lets try to find out the answer to “Whether India needs a caste based census?” Caste has always been a matter of extensive debate throughout the political history […]
Why Cheetahs of Kuno Matter?
The Cheetahs, which became extinct in the country many moons ago have returned. It may not seem an insignificant project on the surface, but there is a supreme motive at work. In our childhood, we all visited the Zoo where the wild animals amazed us a thousand times. Their proximity had given us a sense […]
Fifa World Cup 2022: A Dark Shadow of Human Rights Abuses
With the FIFA World Cup 2022 taking place in Qatar, much of the world participated in the football cheer. But perhaps unknown to many, a dark shadow of human rights violations loomed behind this cheer and revelry. The Human Rights Watch has been closely examining the human rights concerns associated with the World Cup in […]
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 […]
Gender roles and masculine stereotypes in Indian child rearing norms: An evil reality
Conceptualizing gender roles in patriarchal Indian culture In Indian culture, the idea of the male dominance is an inherent societal structure. This idea is so deep rooted that no amount of awareness can be enough to diminish its effect on the Indian society. Since a very tender age the children are taught how their gender […]
How India is faring on unity in diversity in the wake of recent communal unrest?
While diving into the subject of communal unrest we must delve into all the fundamental reasons behind such a sectarian conflict that has been in existence since the independence of the Indian state in the year 1947. The answer is quite evident, the colonial legacies of ‘divide and rule’ the colonising imperials throughout the 200 […]
The Wire controversy: Impact of internet gatekeeping on freedom of speech
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
