Wednesday, 25 April 2018

I owe my Ph.D. to my parents

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I was wondering how we always think that we are the ones to teach all the technology and gadget related functions to our parents. And that their ways of knowing and practicing things are perhaps outdated. But I believe we are wrong here. I remember that my first lesson in using Microsoft Word was from my father - he instilled in me the knowledge and significance of line spacing, alignment, formatting...

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

I am NOT this Unity that we in India are brought up with

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The present story of the abduction, gang rape (multiple times) and murder of an 8-year old girl in a temple in India has forced me to contemplate on the various situations of casual sexism, jokes around rapes and the commodification of the female body that I have encountered. All these situations have made me hate the words “joke”, “fun” or “being casual”. I recollect all the times when someone...