“Paint your own picture, Enola. Don’t be thrown off course by other people. Especially men!”— Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter) Enola Holmes is not just another one of the ordinary
Protests have been carried out by women in India against oppressive systems for ages and have been implemented in many forms. Today the Indian women’s movement exists mostly in a
“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear
Read Part 1 and Part II here. The later part of the book explores the the 1984 massacres of Sikhs in New Delhi after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira
The story of women in India’s partition is often that of an event frozen in time, recalled only in mental images of violence and violation; in stories of women who
Veena Das uses the philosophical and anthropological underpinnings in interpreting violence in societies and cultures, and examines the impact of extreme violence during partition and massacre of Sikhs in1984. The
Our society has traditionally valued the mental over physical, not in terms of mental health but in the meaning of ablism. They called Mind as noble and Body as a