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    CCYSC Blog Theme for February 2022: Locked Down - Children and Spatiality during the Pandemic
    CCYSC
    • Jan 3
    • 3 min

    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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    Choosing Otherwise: On Disabled Refusal
    CCYSC
    • Aug 1, 2021
    • 7 min

    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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    All-American Siddhartha: Whitewashing Buddha’s Childhood
    CCYSC
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 10 min

    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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    Childhood Interiority, Poetry, and the Need for Empathetic Connections
    CCYSC
    • Jun 18, 2021
    • 5 min

    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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    Construction and Mediation of Childhood through Quietness in Satyajit Ray's Films
    CCYSC
    • Jun 11, 2021
    • 10 min

    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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    CCYSC
    • Apr 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    My Personal Experience of Reporting on Sexual Harassment
    CCYSC
    • Sep 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    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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    Slut Shaming: Policing sexuality of girls in schools
    CCYSC
    • Aug 15, 2020
    • 7 min

    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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    Reflections (of an Urban, English-educated, OBC woman) on Growing up in a Caste Society
    CCYSC
    • Aug 8, 2020
    • 7 min

    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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    The Two Girls
    CCYSC
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    Children in Politics: Protests and Beyond
    CCYSC
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 4 min

    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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    Children face a “Crisis Setback”
    CCYSC
    • Jun 21, 2020
    • 12 min

    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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    The Cult of the Banana Bread
    CCYSC
    • Jun 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    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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