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Legal Safeguards against Violence in Public Spaces and Workplaces

A Four Week Online Certificate Training Course on “Ending Violence Against Women: Awareness of Laws and Policies in India”, organized by IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi. The session was on “Legal Safeguards Against Violence In Public Spaces and Workplaces” by Adv. Celin Thomas, Advocate at Celin Thomas and Associates, Bengaluru. Inaugurating the session Bhavni Bansal, a researcher at IMPRI, welcomed the speakers and participants to the program with an introduction to the eminent panelists.

Ensuring Women’s Safety in Situation of Increasing Violence: Special Remarks

An informative and elucidating online panel discussion on “Domestic Violence and Abuse: Challenges and Responses” was an initiative of the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), at the IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi held on December 19, 2022. The program included an insightful and enriching discussion delivered by eminent speakers, Advocate Gayatri Sharma, Prof Vijaylakshmi Brara, Dr Tara Nair, Adv Celin Thomas, Dr Keerthi Bollineni, Anju Dubey Pandey Ji and Anchita Ghatak. Prof Vibhuti Patel chaired the session. The session was opened with introductory and welcoming remarks from Professor Vibhuti Patel and was further moderated by her.

Dummy Variables

On the 4th day of the educational session initiated by IMPRI, Professor Nilanjan Banik, a professor and program director at Mahendra University, Hyderabad. He is also a visiting professor at IMPRI. Professor Nilanjan enlightened us with his knowledge on the topic of Dummy Variables. 

Rani Rashmoni to Helen Lepcha: The Inspiring Stories of Indian Women Who Fought for Freedom

The history surrounding the Indian Independence movement has undergone a transformation, progressing from initial colonial narratives to more sophisticated and comprehensive interpretations. It is crucial to shift away from the prevailing mainstream discourse around the movement, which mostly originates from a privileged caste viewpoint, and acknowledge the existence of several alternative voices.

In Between Involution & Laying Flat

The second part of the article seeks to understand the side of the Chinese youth specifically students- who "call attention to issues" that require states to change their behaviour by "carving in external pressure" to conform. There are "critical junctures" in every norm cycle- comprising of norm emergence, diffusion and internalisation- where an entrenched norm can be uprooted and replaced and China is clearly heading towards one (Bloomfield, 2016) - The question remains whether the youth will seize it or continue living in the permanent liminality of living on the limit despite being at the gate of social reaggregation because crises have the ability to break down roles and overturn culturally sanctioned functions and relations. (Mälksoo, 2012). Involution and Laying Flat is examined by looking at it in the field of education, as the critical juncture.

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