Volume 004

Education

Education: What Makes It Feminist?

August 2022
Volume 004 Education
What happens when we put the two words, ‘feminist’ and ‘education’, together? What kind of walls shake? Which seams may open? What may tumble out?

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A day that is ordinary? A day within the everyday? Feminists have theorised the everyday extensively. Everyday is when the doing happens. The work is done. The cooking, the editing of the draft, the googling, the waiting for the eggs to boil, legwork, emails, paying of bills, waiting with the camera as the time lapse happens, finding the letters for that one word in Rathi, having a drink with a Tharu brewer in Chitwan. All of these are the doing. The Act of Doing, the critical step before making.
It was curiosity that led Ashraf Hussain and Ajfarul Sheikh to turn their steps towards their local madrasa, a place that they would pass by often, but had no occasion to enter.
A teacher walks the aisle of the classroom with a stick in his hand, waiting to use it on anyone who falters in their dictation test. Bhisham Sahni opens this scene of a classroom in his story ‘Imla’ where the same teacher when positioned outside the classroom changes his walk and talk. How do the structures of power change around the same teacher?
In this new episode of Bolti Kahaniyan, Dipta Bhog narrates ‘Hekdi’, a story by writer Vijaydan Detha. This story is taken from the Hindi translation of his anthology ‘Batan Ri Phulwadi’ published by Rajasthani Granthagar.