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Jan 3, 20223 min read
CCYSC Blog Theme for February 2022: Locked Down - Children and Spatiality during the Pandemic
We are excited to announce the CCYSC Blog Theme for February 2022: “Locked Down: Children’s understanding of spatiality during the...
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Aug 1, 20217 min read
Choosing Otherwise: On Disabled Refusal
In this post, Kim Fernandes explores the theorization of refusal within disability discourse, and connects the same to childhood studies...
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Jul 9, 202110 min read
All-American Siddhartha: Whitewashing Buddha’s Childhood
In this post, Andrew Hauner explores the intersection of masculine interiority and whitewashing in the representation of Buddha in...
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Jun 18, 20215 min read
Childhood Interiority, Poetry, and the Need for Empathetic Connections
In this post, Muskan Tanwani's poem reflects on the hypocritical conventions of Indian culture towards its women, and Abbas Ali's poem...
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Jun 11, 202110 min read
Construction and Mediation of Childhood through Quietness in Satyajit Ray's Films
In this post, Ayantika Nath explores the construction and examination of childhood in the films of the celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray,...
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Apr 25, 20213 min read
CCYSC Blog Theme for July 2021: Dis/quieting Imaginings of Childhood in South Asia
We are excited to announce the CCYSC Blog Theme for July 2021: "Dis/quieting Imaginings of Childhood in South Asian Fiction and Film."...
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Sep 20, 20204 min read
My Personal Experience of Reporting on Sexual Harassment
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
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Aug 15, 20207 min read
Slut Shaming: Policing sexuality of girls in schools
Schools contradictorily uphold the ideal subject as asexual but reduce its girl pupils to hyper-sexualized bodies
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Aug 8, 20207 min read
Reflections (of an Urban, English-educated, OBC woman) on Growing up in a Caste Society
What I learnt was that in the context of large material deprivations, suicide as resistance is what Dalit Bahujan Adivasi students resort to
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Aug 1, 20201 min read
The Two Girls
The two girls sat on the footpath Which was the center-stage for protest. Their cheeks were marked with tricolour, like so many others...
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Jul 18, 20204 min read
Children in Politics: Protests and Beyond
Does the insistence on raising children ‘properly’, obscure our imagination of children as political actors in their own right?
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Jun 21, 202012 min read
Children face a “Crisis Setback”
Children like Priyanka are facing an extended “summer reading setback” or, as I opine, a pandemic resultant -- “crisis setback.”
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Jun 14, 20205 min read
The Cult of the Banana Bread
The pandemic has brought out in sharper relief the unequal and gendered division of labour, leaving many young women knackered
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