Tag: SOCIETY
Caste, Religion and Our Classrooms
When stereotypes based on one’s caste and religious identities, and resultant symbolic violence disrupt our classrooms, we lose the spirit of emancipatory education.
Advertising in the pandemic: how companies used COVID as a marketing tool
Advertising is frequently designed to influence how the public understands social problems, and encourages people to think of ethical consumption as a way of helping.
Lonely and Alone — Social Isolation Needs More Effective Solutions
We need not be surprised, United Kingdom and Japan have a Minister of Loneliness - yes, this is the truth of human material success.
A Quest beyond Vaccination
While medical experts and pharmaceutical companies urge you to get yourself vaccinated, you ought to ask yet another question: What do you do after being vaccinated? What does it mean to be ‘safe’? Or is it that we ought to see beyond the process of vaccination to redefine life in the post-pandemic world?
How to Reduce the High Risks of Potential Pandemic Pathogens?
The following article talks about the ways in which we can reduce the high risks of potential pandemic pathogens.
Politics of Dressing up: Costumes that Challenge Gender Norms
A piece of garment is a dress to be worn, a statement to be made, an identity to be asserted or a means to maintain or sustain status quo. Bring the element of gender, and the humble garment sits at the helm of societal politics.
The Appalling Educational Status of Muslims in India Needs Urgent Attention
The appalling educational status of Indian muslims must be worked upon through sustained efforts for the dissemination and democratisation of educational opportunities.
If India’s Strength is its Diversity, Why Are We Nurturing the Young Generation in...
A responsibility towards the nurturance of socio-cultural diversity and equity is the cornerstone of true love for the nation, why are we bringing up children in a milieu of hate and disrespect for other communities?
Industrialisation, Neo-liberalism and the Pandemic as an Occasion for Urgent Critical Reflection
The unsustainable patterns of modernist development and a relentless emphasis on reckless industrialisation has compelled us to rethink the occurrence of pandemics and their connection to how we live, think and relate as a society.
My Upper Caste Upbringing and My Critical Engagement With Problematic Brahminism and Issues of...
This article takes us on an engaging personal anecdote wherein the author shares episodes from her own life in an upper caste household and her critical reflections on the questions of caste and hierarchy.