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  • Statement regarding incidents concerning Prof Vipin P Veetil and redressal mechanisms for caste-based discrimination

    The following is a statement by the Student body of the Department of Humanities and Social Science. The following statement was democratically passed with the required quorum. This statement is being released by the MA students of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences regarding the recent incidents that have happened concerning Prof Vipin P Read More

    3–5 minutes
  • Report | Prof. Vipin Veetil on the Economics of Caste, Merit and Discrimination

    — Article 19 Correspondent On Sunday 22nd August, Professor Vipin conducted an interactive webinar on The Economics of Caste, Merit and Discrimination as a segment in the All-India OBC Students Association channel. The following article is a brief summary and excerpt. The webinar begins with an attempt to challenge some of the common assumptions regarding Read More

    5–7 minutes
  • When I finally made the call…

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    — IV Year, HSS Dept. I never cried when I was younger. And when I say that, I mean it. Before the last year, I remember maybe 2 times in my whole life when I cried. I thought I was incredibly strong-willed and things just failed to faze me. I was proud of it before Read More

    3–5 minutes
  • Overcoming the oxygen shortage of the Second Wave: A case of civic action

    — Neeraj BR After a year of being locked up in our homes,  when COVID cases began to drop and vaccination drives commenced across the country, India believed it had reached the end of the tunnel at the start of 2021. People gathered in large numbers without masks and social distance for the elections, and Read More

    10–14 minutes
  • Report: Interactive session on Mental Health

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    — Samyukta Mahesh At a time when online education has become the common practice, students have begun to experience burnout, emotional fatigue and helplessness with regard to the ongoing pandemic. The mental health session was conducted to address the general and specific concerns in this regard. A survey was sent out in the morning of Read More

    4–6 minutes
  • Ripe Vinyl #15 | Phir le aaya dil

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    — Gowri Raj Varma Somewhere in the crevices of my memory is a song lying dusty and forgotten. I know not what the melodies are, I know not the pattern of notes strung together. But what I do know is that in the depth of my dreams, I dance to it. Languidly, with no hurry, Read More

    5–7 minutes
  • Conference 2021 | Panel 6 | Beyond the Anthropocene

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    — Sharanya Kannan The sixth panel of this year’s department conference took place on 11th April, Sunday, on the topic “Beyond the Anthropocene”. The session was moderated by Prof. Santhosh Abraham. The first panelist, Susan Harris from IIT Delhi, presented a paper titled “Multispecies Configurations: Tracing the Umwelt in the City“. Her paper focussed on Read More

    5–8 minutes
  • Conference 2021 | Valedictory Ceremony

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    — Sharanya Kannan The three day long conference finally came to an end with the valedictory ceremony. This also happens to mark the end of a decade since the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences started its Annual Academic Conference series. These conferences have given numerous research scholars the opportunity to present their works in Read More

    2–3 minutes