Written by Siya Sharma A silver-tongued spectre darkens the honeyed, sun-dappled expanse of a woman’s mind. A mind that impetuously dares to throw its flimsy glass windows open so the light can pour in. It nestles itself staunchly in the shadows it has cast, and within those shadows, it lingers. The cold begins to seep … More Pirouette, Pirouette, Plié: A Woman’s Performative Purgatory
Written by Qudsia Rahman, edited by Rhea Khandelwal Sitting in an airport, a woman looks troubled – she is unable to find her charger. Maybe she left it in her hotel room, or perhaps it is right there in her purse and she just can’t find it because of all the rushed emotions. On the … More Facial-Recognition Technology: The Other Side of the Patriarchal Coin
Interview by Ariba and Sagnik Puri, edited by the Core Team. As a part of our WeVoteWise3.0 campaign, we interview Priavi Joshi, the first woman President of Ashoka University’s Student Government (Sixth HoR – 2020-21) to know about her experiences as a representative of the student body and while serving in a leadership position that … More WeVoteWise3.0: An Interview with Priavi Joshi, the First Woman President of the Student Government (Part II)
Interview by Ariba and Sagnik Puri, edited by the Core Team As a part of our WeVoteWise3.0 campaign, we interview Priavi Joshi, the first woman President of Ashoka University’s Student Government (Sixth HoR – 2020-21) to know about her experiences as a representative of the student body and while serving in a leadership position that … More WeVoteWise3.0: An Interview with Priavi Joshi, the First Woman President of the Student Government (Part I)
Written by Qudsia Rahman, edited by Core Team About the Series The undergraduate student body will be electing its Seventh House of Representatives in the month of February. The previous years of Ashokan politics have presented both the candidates and the voters with multiple challenges, encouraging the community to actively participate and resolve key issues … More #WeVoteWise 3.0: Dhamma
Written by Anandi Pandey and Rohit Rajak, edited by Core Team About the Series The undergraduate student body will be electing its Seventh House of Representatives in the month of February. The previous years of Ashokan politics have presented both the candidates and the voters with multiple challenges, encouraging the community to actively participate and … More #WeVoteWise 3.0: Tarz
Written by Siya Sharma and Hiya Chowdhury, edited by Core Team About the Series The undergraduate student body will be electing its Seventh House of Representatives in the month of February. The previous years of Ashokan politics have presented both the candidates and the voters with multiple challenges, encouraging the community to actively participate and … More #WeVoteWise 3.0: Prakrit
Written by Rohit Rajak and Anandi Pandey, edited by Core Team About the Series The undergraduate student body will be electing its Seventh House of Representatives in the month of February. The previous years of Ashokan politics have presented both the candidates and the voters with multiple challenges, encouraging the community to actively participate and … More #WeVoteWise 3.0: Independent Candidate, Kshitija Chavan
Written by Damini Jain, edited by Core Team About the Series The undergraduate student body will be electing its Seventh House of Representatives in the month of February. The previous years of Ashokan politics have presented both the candidates and the voters with multiple challenges, encouraging the community to actively participate and resolve key issues … More #WeVoteWise 3.0: Independent Candidate, Harshit Kumar
The New Education Policy (NEP) will overhaul the lives of students all over the country as it overhauls the current education system. At the core of this policy lie the principles of centralization, capitalism, and exclusion. Taking alarming decisions, this policy seeks to extend government control over even primary classes by bringing the Anganwadi system within it. This not only undermines the past efforts to establish this system, but it exposes students from different backgrounds to a uniform system that will in essence not be uniform for anyone given the inherent inequalities that exist in our society. The universalization of education will not occur in isolation, it will be by virtue of the societal differences, which favor those who are privileged. … More NEP: New Education Policy or New Discrimination Policy?
Written by Kshitija C., and edited by Arya Khare (The following piece has been written as a response to an insensitive interview of a savarna actress, whose words I will not dignify by acknowledging her identity or work. It is meant to express anger and dissatisfaction.) Representation, on its own, has been a topic that … More Politics of Representation in Bollywood
Written by Chaitanya (Chai) The Ashokan election season is here, and I am seeing most political parties put up posts about the demographic breakup of the candidates standing from their party. And caste seems to be one of the most important factors parties are trying to focus on, but parties also seem to be unaware … More Caste Demographics: A Glossary
(Are they really, or is it just misogyny? Spoiler Alert: No and Yes) Written by Tanvi Krishnakumar Edited by Nikita Sethi Rom-com, chick flick, guilty pleasure. No matter what you call it, we’ve all watched them, even if some of us would like to pretend otherwise. But why is it that they are guilty pleasures … More Why are Romantic Comedies Inferior?
Written by Aakangsha Dutta Edited by Arya Khare and Tara Rai. For an eighteen-year-old who has always struggled with fighting back against the subtle suppression of a patriarchal society, watching the glass ceiling shatter, as a woman of colour, was riveting. When Kamala Harris, in her acceptance speech, commemorated her mother as well as the … More She The People
Written by Anandi Pandey, Hrishita Chaturvedi, and Ishika Kundu. Shabd, maati ki mahima ka bakhan nahin kar sakte, Dharti ka gahan anurag unse hai, Jo use apne pasine se seenchte hain. (Words cannot convey the glory of the soil. The land is fond of those who water it with their sweat.) – Savitribai Phule Savitribai … More The Legacy of Savitribai Calls for Revolution Today
Originally published on The Colourboard, 25th July, 2020. By guest writer Ekta Sonawane “Violence is not justified but resistance is.” It is important for the students from marginalized communities to know about the existence of a parallel world out there, which is not yours and trying to fit into that world is not a change … More Was Phoolan Devi a Feminist?
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