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Serve, Learn, Lead: Empowering Leaders Through The AIF Banyan Fellowships

Sep 24, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

In 2001, in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquakes that wreaked havoc in Gujarat, the American India Foundation first envisioned the possibility of a flagship program that could help bridge culturally two of the world’s largest democracies.
FII Interviews: Devi Seetharam Talks About Women’s Exclusion From Public Spaces And Gatekeeping In The Art World

Sep 4, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

A cursory scroll through Bangalore-based artist Devi Seetharam’sInstagram feed reveals a series of gorgeous paintings presented in a distinctive monochrome palette. The series, titled “Brother, Fathers and Uncles,” shows eerily faceless men dressed in traditional white mundus, confidently occupying the entirety of the canvasses on which they’ve been drawn.
The Dimensions Of Economic Abuse In India

Aug 20, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

That disputes over property and wealth in South Asian families have been a running gag in our community since a long time now. Yet wealth and property also act as media for patriarchs to assert control over women and children in the household through economic abuse. This insidious dimension of financial control often remains a hush-hush matter.
Academic Segregation: How Campuses Remain Unsafe For Marginalised Students

Aug 9, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

» Editors Note: FII’s #MoodOfTheMonth for August 2023 is Caste, Religion And Campus. We invite submissions on this theme throughout the month. If you would like to contribute, kindly refer to our submission guidelines and email your articles to [email protected] season is nearly over, and a new crop of students will soon trickle into some of the country’s most esteemed institutions to begin their academic pursuits.
Book Review | 'Of Captivity And Resistance: Women Political Prisoners In Postcolonial India' By Sharmila Purkayastha

Jul 26, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj |Rohini Menon

Trigger Warning: This is a review of the book ‘Of Captivity and Resistance: Women Political Prisoners In Postcolonial India’ and mentions gender-based violence and rape. Towards the very beginning of her book, Of Captivity and Resistance: Women Political Prisoners In Postcolonial India, author and professor Sharmila Purkayastha, dedicates her research- a culmination of several years’ worth of surveys and interviews and collecting testimonials- to ‘all those who have struggled behind bars‘.
Analysing Lila Abu-Lughod’s Ethnographies On Bedouin Women

Jul 23, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

The phrase, ‘binary oppositions,’ popularised by notable semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure and now a crucial aspect of structuralist theory, refers to such entities that derive their meaning by determining themselves through another entity perceived to be opposite in meaning. For Saussure, and for a host of other postmodern philosophers, the relation between such units of language engaged in binary opposition is symbiotic and complementary instead of being contradictory.
On The Feminist Cause Of Media Literacy And Combating Fake News

Jul 23, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj |Rohini Menon

We would be hard-pressed to find an Indian who hasn’t dealt with fake news- from the pseudoscientific junk so dedicatedly forwarded by our benevolent uncles and aunts on every family group to our own spaces on social media, where fraudulent news and sensational headlines are peddled at a frightening pace to stir hate.
Worsening Climate Crisis A Grave Threat To Reproductive And Maternal Health

Jul 12, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

» Editors Note: FII’s #MoodOfTheMonth for July 2023 is Gender And Climate Change. We invite submissions on this theme throughout the month.
'Tarla' Is An Outdated Recipe That Lacks The Tadka To Impress

Jul 10, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

In 2007, when chef Tarla Dalal was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the Government of India, she made history as the only Indian chef to have been awarded the title. Hers was a truly resounding win; by this time, she had published several cookbooks that had become a staple in households across the country, and her recipes had been consumed by an estimated 120 million Indian families.
Of Dark Realities: Rise And Rise In Islamophobia In Modi’s India

Jul 2, 2023 | feminisminindia.com | Mayank Kamboj

Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi was asked by White House correspondent Sabrina Siddiqui during his diplomatic visit to the States what steps his government was willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims in India and further uphold free speech. “Democracy is our spirit,” Modi declared in response, while an interpreter translated his words to the world.