Tag: gender

• They hand you a box

  

  They hand you a boxFour neat lines joined at supremely perfect right anglesYour body, rounded at the edges, pliable, more flesh than muscleSqueezing yourself into shape you triumph, look you say, I fitSkin compacted into nothingnessCells harnessed to behave One day, unexpectedly you spill outOver the edges, across the linesMass dictating it’s ruleslook they say, […]

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  13 Feb 2020

  Apoorva, Art, Creative Writing, diversity, Poem A Day, Poetry, Read, Story

  Agha Shahid Ali, Apoorva, books, city pockets, gender, Ghazal, history, leaves, life, living, love, memory, nature, people, people who belong to rivers, places, Poem, space, the writing life, thoughts, walking, winter, women, Writing

• Building Inclusive Safe Spaces: my brown dream

  

  Two institutions have come under the radar recently for allowing their platform to spout bigotry; both apologized, and in their inner circles professed that the core consensus was to give everyone a forum to vent out their inner feelings. However offensive they might have been they had the “right” to express. Here is my (to […]

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  23 Jan 2019

  Awareness, conference, diversity, Education, Gender, Read, Story, Travel

  Adrienne Rich, behavior, bullies, gender, harm, harsh, leaders, leadership, learning, longreads, manners, mean, minority, represent, representation, safe, safety, silence, silent, what did you do

• On Reading “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros

  

  I am currently reading The House on Mango Street (2004) by Sandra Cisneros. It came recommended by a friend’s daughter; she read it as part of her English Literature syllabus in Grade 8. Well firstly, I am absolutely delighted that this young bright student recommended this book to me. Secondly, how fabulous that a book […]

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  5 Jan 2019

  Academic, Books, diversity, Gender, Read, Story

  authors, bildungsroman, bookworms, chicana, coming of age, danya rutenberg, esperanza, female heros, gender, grade 8, intersectionality, kids, latina, literature, literature in english, mexican, novel, represent, representation, sandra cisneros, the house on mango street, vignettes

• Musings after watching Pataakha

  

  I happened to chance upon Pataakha (PT) – the movie, which is now available on Amazon Prime. Vishal Bhardwaj is an immensely talented director, and PT did not disappoint. I gather that it did not perform well at the box-office, primarily due to the release of Sui Dhaaga (SD) during the same time. SD had bigger stars […]

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  29 Dec 2018

  Audience, Bollywood, Customer Review, Film, Gender, Story

  aspirations, bending gender, charan singh pathik, detail, dipper, do behnein, doing gender, dreams, film review, gender, is this too unladylike for you?, movie, movies, musings, pataakha, radhika madan, sahitya kala academy, sanya malhotra, shakespeare, short story, sonchiriya, sunil grover, thoughts, two sisters, vijay raaz, vishal bhardwaj, women

• “Stop interrupting me.”

  

  10 Words Every Girl Should Learn By Soraya Chemaly / alternet.org “Stop interrupting me.”  “I just said that.” “No explanation needed.” [..] “Parents interrupt girls twice as often and hold them to stricter politeness norms. Teachers engage boys, who correctly see disruptive speech as a marker of dominant masculinity, more often and more dynamically than girls.” […]

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  31 Mar 2015

  Audience, Awareness, Education, Gender

  books, boy, change, children, Cinema, education, gender, growing up, mindful, teach, women

• When I went to watch “The Hundred Foot Journey”

  

    Has the study of literature made me lose the ability to enjoy an ordinary film? Has it? Has it? I went to watch “The Hundred Foot Journey”. The film promised the agreeable mingling of food and diaspora. Purab laughed, “Are you watching the diaspakoda?” I wanted the movie to move me. It had Om […]

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  6 Nov 2014

  Audience, Film, Gender

  academia, Apoorva, diaspora, film, gender, happy new year, helen mirren, movie, om puri, review, the hundred foot journey

• Gender Log India

  

  Gender Log India This whole week I will be tweeting as @genderlogindia “Imagining equality: a crowdsourced hub on gender from India, with a new guest curator each week.” You can find out more about this movement through the link : http://genderlog.com/

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  20 Oct 2013

  Story

  gender, twitter