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Putting the Feminist in Learning

Volume 005 : Crime

Volume 005

Crime

What makes a crime, who is a criminal, and what in the hot white mess is a feminist way of looking at crime anyway? The background work on this edition involved a lot of old school study, and new school interpretations.

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Body

Where we look at how power plays out on the body – its subjectivity, control, agency and resistance.

Artwork generated using DALL-E by Hameeda Syed

Anatomy of an (Drug) Abused Kashmiri

In Kashmir, ‘young’ and ‘addiction’ have become synonymous. Now, a band of youngsters enjoying their youthful time around a lake is seen with intense suspicion...
Artwork by Upasana Agarwal

In Between Worlds

Elina and I have an agree-to-disagree understanding. I propagate that women should be helped in breaking away from commercial sexual exploitation. That breaking away is...
Illustration Credit: Raj Kumari

This Chota Nagpuri Graphic Novel Will Change The Way You Think About Education

Biksu is a graphic novel that has enjoyed unparalleled success in the Hindi reading world. It tells the story of the late Vikas Kumar Vidyarthi...
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In Conversation with Du Saraswathi

For Du Saraswathi, writer, theatre person and Dalit activist, the community and the self are twin constituencies. Her theatre and poetry reveal the making of...
Artwork by Pakhi Sen

The Miseducation of a Sissy

We learned about photosynthesis five times. Every year, from Class 6 to Class 11, I forgot the exact definition so I had to relearn it...
Artwork by Aayna Vinaya

Seeing the Beauty Between Desire and Duty

Hameeda has participated in the EduLog programme with The Third Eye for its Education Edition. EduLog mentored 12 writers and image-makers from India, Nepal and...
Illustration by Sutanu Panigrahi

Chhed Khaani

It is a warm April day in New Delhi. The session we are about to conduct is our third with girls who attend a bridge...
Artwork Credits: Upasana Agarwal

“My book is a pre-Tinder history of the Internet.”

Manjima Bhattacharjya is a feminist researcher, writer and activist. She offers intriguing insights in how the Internet was changing digital intimacy, a short minute before...
Love Marriage Ritual. Bridegroom father in Western suit. Courtesy Malavika Karlekar from the Center for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi.

The 19th Century Woman Who Challenged the Image of Indian Coupledom

The period between 1870 and 1920 may be regarded as the high moment for pushing the conjugality/new conjugality project Nae Dampatiya Rishtey (Ek Vivahit Jode...
Photo Courtesy: Nadika Nadja

The Walking Manifesto

I have never been to Mahabs, as they call it. I've been to a city that is sometimes known as Mamallapuram, and oftentimes Mahabalipuram. These...

Structure

Where we look at the interconnected structures of power such as law, state, religion, caste and class, language, marriage and family, through a feminist lens.
Image by Shivam Rastogi

You’re Seen, Therefore You Are: Carceral Cultures and Everyday Panopticons

Are our lives governed by principles of carcerality, the most common being confinement, surveillance, and punishment? And what role does public space violence play in...
Artwork by Rose (IG: @kozhalappam)

Women (Re)Public

Artwork by The Big Fat Bao (IG:@thebigfatbao)

“I know what you people eat.”

Food has been an issue for most of my life. It has stood like a giant question mark between my relationships, my friendships, outside my...
Volume 005: Crime

Does care have to be at the periphery if crime is at the centre?

By a feminist approach, I specifically mean the ethics of care articulated by the philosopher Virginia Held, which understands that people are intrinsically interrelated, as...
Photo Courtesy: Raunak

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I am a 23-year-old student from Haryana, who studied at Delhi University (DU) for her BA, and at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for her MA....
Artwork by Ritika Gupta

Ableism and the Trouble with Merit

I want to tell this story in two parts. In one, the expectation of meritocracy oppresses everyone; in the other, even access to academic oppression...
Illustration Credit: Sangita Jogi and Ritika Gupta

I Became Educated For A New Adivasi Future And To Help The World Remember Our Adivasi Present

I was born in the Gond Adivasi community in Wardha, Maharashtra. I am the eldest of my siblings—three sisters and a brother. My parents are...
63-year-old Stanzin Dolma walks uphill and downhill in the village of Lingshed, Ladakh carrying her 24-year-old daughter Stanzin Otsala on her back. Stanzin contracted brain tuberculosis 10 years ago. Photo Credit: Vicky Roy.

A Love Fest Like No Other

Of course, it was the perfect beginning: a group of deaf children showing off some exceptional drumming, and that too related to Carnatic classical music....
Still from Bioscope, a documentary on the transgender experience of schools, by Nirantar Trust.

Have you known us?

In 2013, Nirantar produced a short documentary on the non-binary experience in schools. Featuring Nrrups, Sunil and Rajarshi, the film travels from Kolkata to Bengaluru...
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The Science Students Who Want to Engineer the End of Caste

This is a reported piece on the student groups at IITs, who work on educating and building awareness around caste-based discriminations in Indian institutes of...

Pedagogy

From feminist pedagogies to critical approaches, teaching strategies and learning methods, we look at pedagogy as a living, breathing organism shaping learners’ abilities to take constructive action.
Drawings titled ‘Unsaid’ by Lalita Vadiva (L) and ‘Freeda Theatre’ by Vishnu Solanki (R). Image Courtesy: Maraa - A Media & Arts Collective

When Your Body is a Witness

In November 2021, a group of eleven women found themselves sitting together in a room in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Three of us (Anushi, Ekta and...
Artwork by Tavisha Singh

How do you learn to work in a prison?

Prisons are taken for granted within ‘civilised’ societies; we often do not think of the what and why of the institution. Often, we find ourselves...
Artwork by women inmates of Tihar Jail from the exhibition ‘A Brush With Hope’. Image Courtesy: www.thevillagegallery.in

What if the law could hold space for grief?

“Is deterrence of crime a valid end of justice, and therefore a valid measure of punishment?… Which is the crime whose deterrence one is talking...
Artwork by Shakira, woman inmate of Tihar Jail from the exhibition ‘A Brush With Hope’. Image Courtesy: www.thevillagegallery.in

Could a real apology serve justice more than a prison sentence?

In 2022, the theme for Pakistan’s annual Aurat March was Reimagining Justice. The manifesto highlighted failures of the criminal justice system, and emphasised the need...
Behind-the-scenes photo of Paromita Vohra from the set of ‘Love in the Garden of Consent’ Photo Courtesy: Nisha Susan

Can You Teach Sex Ed Through Beauty Rather Than Information?

It is 10 years since I made my last documentary, many people ask me, when are you making another film? And to some I answer...
Artwork by Anuradha Bhaumick (IG:hooplaback.girl)

No, Fangirls are not a Dying Species

At the beginning of 2022, I was still a student. Just along the fag end of that identity. At the end of 2022, I was...
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Why is All Our Learning So Closely Tied to Fear?

Tilottama says the inspiration for the graphic narrative Do You See What i See?! comes from a co-learning space where we all feel safe while...
A photograph from the heritage walk in Mehrauli, 2016. Photo Credits: Darwesh team/ Nirantar team.

Show Me the Gully

Aashiyan has the air of a scout. Squeezing through gullies lined with garbage, whizzing past the worn-out, exposed brick-and-cement houses, she, along with around 15-20...
Artwork by Ritika Gupta

What We Learnt by Teaching Women to Write Letters

It’s been over 20 years since I started working on women and adolescent girls’ literacy. Twenty years, and I still continue to feel that letter...
A still from demolished Khori gaon in Faridabad by Kallol Mukherjee.

What is the Rigour to Your Compassion?

In Part Two we discuss the limitations of anger, the potential for empathy instead if accompanied by rigour, and the underrated merits of using joy...

Praxis

Where feminist theory comes out to play, where the ism itself is gloriously complicated in the actual living of lives; radical, messy, round shapes in square holes.
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How to do a Survey on Witch-Hunting?

“How to ask a woman whether she has been called a daayan?” This was the first question that came to the minds of 46 women...
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Not a Hero

We send people to jail so we don’t have to think about them. What happens in jail, we’d rather not know. Or if we do,...
Artwork by Priyanka Paul (@artwhoring)

Will You Hide the Body with Me?

Among the many gifts that the classroom throws in my face, one that I am equally envious and enamored by is the beehive of female...
Artwork by Uma Ketha (@uma_ketha)

“We went looking for violence and found love.”

We know very little about the life of the ordinary woman prisoner. She is either non-existent in popular imagination or made out to be an...
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What Are Gender Trainers Struggling With When They Work With Men?

Harjant Gill, a documentary filmmaker and scholar who has made multiple documentaries on Indian masculinity(ies), says, “One of the challenging things about talking about masculinity...
Artwork by Bakery Prasad

What if Your Job is to Teach Men and Boys to be Better Men and Boys?

Work on gender in the development and social sector has traditionally engaged with women and girls. It was only in the mid-90s that some NGOs...
A still from the dance practice with Nrithya Pillai. Photo Courtesy: Shivam Rastogi.

I Left the Famous Dance Institute and Learnt to Love Bharatanatyam Again

Words scraped against my brain as I Iay down, exhausted, in my stark white hostel room. I tried to find comfort in the lingering smell...
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, Dir. Payal Kapadia)

Here Is the List of Movies About Education That You Always Wanted

It is often said that a film should either entertain, engage, or educate (not in the same order though). And in our country, one obsessed...
A still from the film ‘Age of Learning’ by Shuvangi Khadka. Photo Credits: Prakash Chandra Jimba.

My Mother’s Report Card: A Prologue

One evening, last year, I finally coaxed my mother to sit down and take pause from constantly running around the house. I had been following...
Photo Credit: Saba Khan

Meet Bhopal’s Impressive Group of Girl Librarians

During COVID, when almost everything was closed in Bhopal, we began delivering books to children by going door-to-door. Adults in the family took to reading...

Dictionary of Violence

The Caseworkers’ Dictionary of Violence introduces a vocabulary around gender-based violence (GBV) that emerges from the grassroots, from those at the frontlines, within a deeply Indian context.
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Meet The Caseworkers: Episode 8, Manju Soni

Meet Manju Soni from Banda, Uttar Pradesh. Manju has been working with Vanangana NGO since 2000 and for the past five years has been working...
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Meet The Caseworkers: Episode 7, Avdhesh Gupta

In this episode, meet Avdhesh Gupta from Banda, Uttar Pradesh. Avdesh has been working with Vanangana NGO as a caseworker since 1995 on gender based...
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Meet The Caseworkers: Episode 6, Kusum

In this episode, meet Kusum from Mahrauni, Uttar Pradesh. Kusum has been working with Sahjani Shiksha Kendra since 2008. Knowledge has strengthened her and she...
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Meet The Caseworkers: Episode 5, Rajkumari Prajapati

In this episode, meet Rajkumari Prajapati from Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. In 2008, 19-year-old Rajkumari joined Sahjani Shiksha Kendra as a teacher, where she taught girls...
Artwork by Bhawna Parmar (@nabhawna)

“But you have to wake up in the morning and face the world.”

I was 16 years old. At the time, I had taken up a job in order to take care of my mother and younger sister....
Artwork by Urvi Sawant

“I can’t go back to my father’s house.”

What is a samjhauta? It is a decision made to wrap up disputes, in a way that ensures everything goes smoothly in the future. In...
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Meet The Caseworkers: Episode 4, Shabina Mumtaz

In this episode, meet Shabina Mumtaz from Banda, Uttar Pradesh. Shabina has been working with Vanangana NGO for 17 years on gender based violence cases....
Artwork by Shiraz Hussain

“So, do you have any good news yet?”

Usually, a compromise is done between two people, as we have often seen. A compromise is done to resolve a fight between a husband and...
A woman navigating through a rural landscape, representing resilience in the face of violence in a patriarchal society.

It Feels Like Forever Since I Returned Home

Today, I have to go and visit my in-laws house. My son, who is 11, got ready to go with me. The kachcha roads here...
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Caseworker’s Diary I Episode 3: Sunday Ka Din

In this story, a caseworker walks us through her Sunday, that day of the week when she takes her son to visit her husband's village....
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