Manjrekar, N. (2013) Gujarat: Patriarchy Revisited – A Dress Code for Teachers. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(43). Read here Key Idea The paper addresses the phenomenon of making a dress code compulsory for teachers. This in turn points towards the authoritarian approach of bureaucracy as also towards the attempt to curtail the freedom of teachers,…
Arnett, J. J., & Jensen, L. A. (2002) A Congregation of One: Individualised Religious Beliefs Among Emerging Adults. Journal of Adolescent Research, 17 (5): 451-467. Full text available here. Brief Summary The paper details out a study on 140 emerging adults religious beliefs. The data collection and analysis includes quantitative as well as qualitative methods. This…
Misfit MadhuDivya Anand2022Puffin Bookspp 277 As the name of the book says, the story revolves around the life of Madhu, a class seven student, who feels that she doesn’t fit in with the rest of her class. She is different from her peers as she is more interested in computers than in fashion, she does…
Identity Milan Kundera 1998 Faber pp. 160 My first reading of Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) was not very appealing. I was probably not prepared for it or did not have the leisure to engage with it in the way it was meant to be read. I was quite sure I wouldn’t pick up…
The Last Dance Anmol Arora 2019 Speaking Tiger pp. 320 The Last Dance is the debut novel by Anmol Arora. The narrative traces the life of a young Kurdish girl growing up in India. Having taken refuge in India at the peak of Turkey- Kurdistan conflict, the girl, struggles to find her identity in the…
Kumar, K. (2019). Kya Shiksha Shanti Mein Sahayak ho Sakti Hai? (Part I). (L. Gupta, Trans.). Shiksha Vimarsh, 21(1), 17-21. The paper is the first in a series discussing the interface between formal education and peace. In this paper, the author references personal experiences that led to the realisation that education of History through mainstream…
