We are excited to announce the CCYSC Blog Theme for February 2022: “Locked Down: Children’s understanding of spatiality during the...

In this post, Kim Fernandes explores the theorization of refusal within disability discourse, and connects the same to childhood studies...

In this post, Andrew Hauner explores the intersection of masculine interiority and whitewashing in the representation of Buddha in...

In this post, Muskan Tanwani's poem reflects on the hypocritical conventions of Indian culture towards its women, and Abbas Ali's poem...

In this post, Ayantika Nath explores the construction and examination of childhood in the films of the celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray,...

We are excited to announce the CCYSC Blog Theme for July 2021: "Dis/quieting Imaginings of Childhood in South Asian Fiction and Film."...

After what felt like hours, I blinked the chlorine out of my eyes and took a deep breath . That’s what standing up for myself felt like

Schools contradictorily uphold the ideal subject as asexual but reduce its girl pupils to hyper-sexualized bodies

What I learnt was that in the context of large material deprivations, suicide as resistance is what Dalit Bahujan Adivasi students resort to

The two girls sat on the footpath Which was the center-stage for protest. Their cheeks were marked with tricolour, like so many others...

Does the insistence on raising children ‘properly’, obscure our imagination of children as political actors in their own right?

Children like Priyanka are facing an extended “summer reading setback” or, as I opine, a pandemic resultant -- “crisis setback.”

The pandemic has brought out in sharper relief the unequal and gendered division of labour, leaving many young women knackered