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Re-thinking Indian Childhood: Conception, Gendered Socialization and Education

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Supriya Kaushik 0 Comments adulthood, American, benefit, boundaries, boy, boyhood, British, carefree, child, childhood, cognitive, colonial, comprehension, conception, confident, deprivation, emotional, experiment, feelings, fluid, freedom, Freud, generalization, girl, governmental, Happiness, ignorance, immature, india, Indian childhood, influence, kids, knowledge, learning, mature, mental, oblivion, participation, pedagogy, physical, Piaget, process, Protection, prototype, research, safety, school, sexual, skills, social, societal, system, talent, teaching, teenagers, thought, unaware, viewpoint, Western childhood

Of all the seasons we weather in our lives, childhood is one we hold on to. We carry it with us wherever we go. Virginia Woolf had said, “Why must they grow up and lose it all?”. The question is, does childhood actually have a proper definition or do we mould it as per our needs to see what we want?

Politics

An odium against student electoral politics

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Editor 0 Comments ABVP, ABVP incident, agendas, AISA, BJP-ABVP, campaigning, central universities in India, Delhi University, Delhi University elections, DUSU, elections in central universities, elections in India, INC-NSUI, Indian politics, JNU elections, JNU incident, Leftist movement, manifestos, NSUI, oldest, participation, Political Parties, political processes, politics in India, polls in colleges, Ramjas College, Representation, right, SFI, student affairs, student elections, student leaders, student leaders in colleges, Student organisations, student politics, Student politics in India, University elections, youngest

While people and media never get tired of passing value judgements about Varsity level politics, the larger concern seems to be lost in the debate. We never realise the very need of politics or at least a system of representation for students. India is surely one of the youngest countries, but it also has one of the oldest parliament in the world. This paradox is nothing but harmful for the democratic sentiment, which or country proudly boasts of.

Society

From Bearers of Rights to Beasts of Burden: The Children’s Experience of the Pandemic

July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Srijal Srivastava 0 Comments aftermath, age, brunt, child labor, child marriage, child pornography, child rearing, Child rights, children, consequence, COVID-19, exertion, exploit, exploitation, factor, Fast Track courts, Female genital mutilation, FGM, finance, financial pressure, human rights, identity, Internet, Justice, justice system, labor, malnourishment, Manu, migrant workers, need, oppression, paedophile, pandemic, participation, pornography, POSCO, pressure, Psychology, punishment, remuneration, Rights, Sexual offence, suppression, urgent, utilitarian, victim, want

Children have hopes and dreams beyond our imagination. They have every right to be given the opportunity to try and achieve it. In spite of that knowledge, we fail to see the plight of scores of children across the nation who miss out on their childhood because the circumstances are against them. Some things are way more than they seem to be.