By: Ayaan Sagar, Dipanita Malik, Niyati Pendekanti, Rajvardhan Ghorpade Introduction Eucalyptus trees tower over native shrubbery in the Western Ghats. The image above captures the serenity of its landscape, where a path leads through a forest of soaring trees. A closer look at the image, however, reveals the long shadow of violence left behind by …
By: Jahnavi Mukul, Manya Srivastava, Omkar Mishra, Rishi Ragesh Introduction The above stills are from a ceremony in 2012 in Tikal, which is an ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala. The ceremony was meant to mark the end of a 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar.2 By looking at this picture, this essay aims to …
The Doomsday Confusion: Mayan Calendar and Understanding the Misunderstood Read More »
Image 1: Gram Nyayalaya in session. Source: https://knowlaw.in/index.php/2021/08/11/gram-nyayalaya-jerry-built-justice/ Image 2: Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v. Bolivia) – Public hearings – First Round. Source: https://www.icj-cij.org/en/multimedia/6245a27a045e580af31b0b4c . Courtesy of the ICJ. All rights reserved. By: Mohit Kumar, Swati Aadtiya, and Yookta Ahuja Ed Morgan notes how in analysing …
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By: Abhijeet Narayanan, Srishti Sikka, Shauryavardhan Sharma and Brishti Bose Introduction The image we’ve chosen is an animated representation of two kids playing football in a conflict zone. The artist illustrates the ruins through absurdly tilted buildings and fault lines on the ground. The children are seen in tattered clothes, playing football with melancholic expressions …
By: Advika Pandey, Anushka Jain and Sharan Kaur Hunjan The discipline of international relations is heavily influenced by norms of heteronormativity, which are co-opted differently by various cultures to garner acceptability in the international diaspora. Our showcase titled “Jass, Not Jazz” comes from the initial spelling of jazz ‘jass’ which Ward and Burns suggest was …
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Re(living) Pain Through Remnants: Witnessing Stories of Violence in Taiwan Through Burnt Camphor By: Arnav Gurnani, Suyasha Shakya, Anannya Sharma, Ariba Introduction The photographs depict the burning of crushed camphor, arranged as an outline of the word ‘PAIN,’ and its aftermath which shows that the only thing that remains is the sooty residue. Here, camphor …
An analysis of the Securitisation theory reveals that it is necessary for agents to distance themselves from the gendered elements of their movement to successfully securitize an issue that disproportionately affects women.
This photo essay looks at the anti-government protests in Belarus that started in August 2020 to explore the idea of “feminist” protest and what it takes for resistance to be feminised and understood to be truly representative of all marginalized individuals.
This essay aims to analyze the global effects of shojo and otaku, two genres of anime, that influence representation and perception of women and its impact on masculinities and other real-life identities.
Unencumbered by the spatial demands of geographical borders, ACNH soon began to re-define the conventional understanding of borders as tangible entities. It did so by navigating the intangibility of temporal and social borders through its use of gender-neutral gameplay to establish a virtual, global community.
