POLICY CENTRE AND GENDER LAB

  A Reader’s review of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience store woman  -by Simran Sharma When reading Japanese fiction, the issue one runs into is that nothing ever makes sense until you  accept that it's Japanese and extremely culturally esoteric. Perhaps, as with any culturally  informed and idiosyncratic novel, the reader is always aware and feels the unfamiliarity and  newness of the writing.   Sayaka Murata’s Convenience store woman conveys a poignant feature, contravening the  fabrications of societal normality, notions of personal growth, stability and the pursuit of good  life. For Keiko Furukura, the convenience store is a sonic realm. The convenience store sound,  which is repeatedly referenced in the book, is an escalating auditory experience that probably  only Furukura can obtain in one of the busiest and most crowded places in human existence.  After eighteen years in the same position, she has mastered the art of being...

  Burnout Society & its feminist narratology  an excerpt analysis by Kaushiki Ishwar I love Byung chul-han’s Philosophy, I have spent multiple hours dissecting why is he so dystopian, while I was reading burnout society, one of his exemplary works on capitalism and destruction, In the chapters Han prescribes that, Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response ...

Psyche of Rapists By Saniya Shekh   Abstract   According to NCB data, India lodged average of 86 rapes daily, 49 offences against women per hour in 2021. Delhi is notoriously called the ‘Rape Capital of India’, which is a horrendous reality for Delhiites. The All-India average rate of rape is 4.8, that is saddening and a major driving force behind this article.  The rape is a heinous offence which alarmingly poses a menace to women’s safety and dignity across the globe. The solution of this grave issue lies in the fundamental question of ‘Why do men rape?’ It is essential to decipher the rapist’s motivation , thought processes and psychology, which is seldom talked about, in order to bring meaningful policy changes. This article seeks a change in approach concerned with rapes, shifting the focus from rape victims to that of rapists.   Sherry Hamby, a research professor of psychology at the University of Southin Tennessee and founding editor of America Psychologi...

  Feminist Environmentalism and Governance in India By Anasab Atiq The climate debate dates back decades earlier with voices being echoed in Rio Summits, and Earth Summits back in the 1970s with a focus accrued to the inclusion of women; with the narrative transitioning to gender perspective; from a mere allusion and anathema to a canon. Eco feminist critique has seen its evolution from originating in the USA, extrapolating women’s environmental connection with ideological needs that are rooted in the reproductive biology of women & nature and the wider ontological process of cultural and psychological association with nature; to the material (economic and political)critique found statistically in the developing world; moving beyond Eco feminism, to feminist environmentalism as studied by Bina Agarwal. Although the neoliberal, colonialist narrative presupposed the extension of helping hand to the women in developing world through civil society and institutional actors like NGOs...