Category: Essay Competition

  • Scripts of Heterosexuality on Instagram Reels

    In today’s day and age of digital media, social media has become an essential aspect of our lives. With around 825.30 Million internet users in India (“The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators”, 2021), out of which 755.47 million people are social media users (“India: number of social network users 2015-2040”, 2021), it is sufficient to…

  • FEMINIST (RE) INTERPRETATION OF CSR ACTIVITIES

    Gender diversity is an essential component that adds value to a company’s decision-making process, affecting its financial performance. Despite an increase in female literacy rates, gender inequality is still prevalent across the globe. Women’s participation in the labor force is meager. According to the SIGI (Social Institutions and Gender Index), which measures discriminatory laws, social…

  • WITCH HUNTING IN INDIA – ITS ORIGIN AND WHY IT MOSTLY TARGETS WOMEN

    Abstract: This paper is an attempt to provide the relevant information regarding the origin of witch-hunting in India and the factors which make it a crime affecting mostly women. Contemporary India still faces the wrath of witch-hunting particularly in the tribal-dominated areas. It holds back the country on the path to progress. In modern times, the…

  • CAPITALISING THE NEW FACE OF MASCULINITY

    Introduction: “This primordial investment in the social games (illusio) which make a man a real man – the sense of honour, virility, ‘manliness’, or, as the Kabyles say, ‘Kabylness’ (thakbaylith) – is the undisputed principle of all the duties towards oneself, the motor or motive of all that a man ‘owes to himself’, in other…

  • Question of agency: Interactionism, Structuralism and Male gaze

    Introduction: Contributing to the debate of structure and agency, Erving Goffman and Talcott Parsons differentiates in their perspectives but their theories do not necessarily run parallel or opposite to each other, instead there are points of confluence. I would also argue that reading their work side by side enables one to understand more comprehensively the…

  • Suicide is preventable: Here’s how to stop it

    Suicide is preventable: Here’s how to stop it

    “People do not die from suicide, They die from the sadness” Suicide – a mere seven letter word that seems harmless has affected lakhs of people worldwide, taken many lives and destroyed numerous households. On an average, about 800,000 people commit suicide worldwide out of which 17% are Indians. These are figures which may not…

  • Motivational Speech to Help Prevent Suicidal Thoughts

    Now the most important question arises, What is the cause of suicidal thoughts? Is the problem being so big that it cannot be tackled up? Is the problem being so huge that ending one’s life is the only the solution? What’s worth noticing is that depression is a major step in an individual’s life that…