Shakuntala in Kalidasa & Mahabharata - Prof Romila Thapar

-  Shakuntala in Kalidasa & Mahabharata - Part 11

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIg5HXUudNM

Kuki Gallmann shot as land invasions surge in Kenya

The 73-year-old conservation park owner was ambushed as armed cattle-herders search for scarce grazing land.

The Gallmann family owns the 400-square-km Laikipia Nature Conservancy [Tony Karumba/AFP]

Gunmen have seriously wounded 73-year-old conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park in the latest of a string of attacks during land invasions in drought-stricken northern Kenya.

Status of Gender Equality in India - PLD

 http://pldindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Status-of-Gender-Equality-in-India-Joint-Stakeholders-Report-UPR3-2012-16.pdf

This Apology Letter From A Dad To A Daughter Is As Real As It ...Mad over Marketing (M.O.M)

Here’s a father visiting his daughter’s home and realizing that all these years, he’s missed out on something very important. He sees his daughter come back from work, take care of her son, do the laundry and also make tea and dinner for the family, while the husband sits on the couch and watches television. A normal Indian household, right?

Instead of knocking some sense into his son-in-law, however, he finds himself responsible for this set up, and talks about that in his letter.

The one thing you can’t deny – this is very very real, and all of us have seen it happen.

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The New Vicks Ad Featuring a Transwoman and Her Daughter Hits All the Right Spots By Sharanya Gopinathan

Still from Vicks India Youtube.

Maybe we’re a little late to the party, but have you seen the new Vicks ad? It hits all the right spots, both aesthetically and in terms of social sensitivity. It’s based on a true story, of a girl whose biological mother died of HIV/AIDS when she was six years old, after which she was adopted by a trans woman. As Buzzfeed points out, the ad attemps to normalise trans motherhood, and does it really nicely.

The Women in India Fighting for the Right to Pee by Chryselle D'Silva Dias

In both large cities to rural villages, the obstacles to clean public restrooms for women in India range from filthy conditions to unaffordable fees to the threat of sexual assault.

Let transgender people use any public toilet they prefer, Centre tells Swachh Bharat Mission

The ministry of sanitation asked its affiliate to ensure that they are recognised as equal citizens and are able to 'use facilities without embarrasment'.

Asif Hassan/AFP (Representative image)

The Centre has issued guidelines to the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) saying transgender people must be allowed use public toilets designated for both men and women, depending on their choice. The statement asked the mission to ensure that members of the transgender community are recognised as equal citizens.

Performance artist stood still for 6 hours to let people do what they wanted to her body - Faye

- https://www.elitereaders.com/performance-artist-marina-abramovic-social-experiment/

Ideal child in the ideal nation: Gender, class and work in a school lesson by Nandini Manjrekar

Abstract
The influence of schooling on shaping childhood identity is a relatively under-researched area, especially within the Indian context. Although it is acknowledged that schools form significant sites of secondary socialisation, they tended to be treated as ‘black boxes’, leaving little scope for ethnographic and other inquiry into school processes which form a critical part of the lifeworld of the school child. These processes are distinguished by social markers like gender, class, caste, religion and location, which make the study of identity formation in childhood through schooling complex and challenging.