Tag: Lakshmi Yazhini
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Lecture Notes#4 | A Theory of Environmental Human Rights: Lecture By Prof. Ravi Rajan
Can we truly talk about human rights without including the environment? Prof. Ravi Rajan’s lecture on the theory of environmental human rights highlighted the link between environmental quality and basic human rights. Environmental rights are also human rights – the right to live with dignity. Our executive editor, Neenu Elza, writes a report of the lecture. Read More
3–4 minutes
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What Happens If You Don’t Get Your Chips Packet in Ten Minutes?
In our home away from home, ordering what we crave with a 5 minute transaction is perhaps a trivial task. But this simple action masks several political and social layers of exploitation against whom we call “Gig Workers”. With his opinion piece, Alfid (Insta ID) describes the dangerous and insecure conditions that quick-commerce workers navigate. Read More
3–4 minutes
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Movie Stockings: A Christmas Watch List
— Lakshmi Yazhini “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr Seuss What does Christmas mean to you? The one day you get to set up a beautiful tree in the middle of your house? That day your neighborhood is filled with trilling Christmas Carols? Or Read More
4–6 minutes
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HSSpeak #12 | Discourse
— Lakshmi Yazhini What comes to our minds when we hear the word discourse? Perchance, do you think of long discussions in classrooms about how it highlighted so many sociological aspects of our country? More importantly, would you have thought of it before coming across the term in our course? Linguistically speaking, a discourse refers to Read More
3–5 minutes
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Myriad Perspectives: On Restructuring the MA Program
— Lakshmi Yazhini “Hello! Where do you study?” “IIT Madras” “Wow, that’s amazing! Such a prestigious institute. Which course?” “An MA Integrated in Development/English Studies, from the Humanities department” “What? An MA in IIT? Never heard of that. And what is this about Humanities?” Not sure about the rest of the HS student body, but Read More
4–7 minutes
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Our Tryst with Sociality
— Lakshmi Yazhini Gregariousness is believed to be a quality central to the lives of humans. The American Psychological Association defines gregariousness as “the tendency of human beings to enjoy the company of others and to want to associate with them in social activities.” Over time, the word gregariousness came to be associated with feelings of Read More
2–3 minutes
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