SNAEHA SATHYAN

  N(o/e)w Pombalaism ( Translates to Now/ New Feminism; Pombala - Female in Tamil) (Screengrab from Shefali Shah's short film "Juice") Last week, I read lecture proceedings on Women in Conflict Resolution and Peace Processes because I have come from a place where it has been told that for war and peace, women are the agents for it. The proceedings were about how women are misrepresented and have been a major trouble to not have complete justice anywhere, and how she can be of use to transform this world, which believes in violence and war as a solution to any cause. It also highlighted how women had been strictly limited by the nature of providing care and security biologically, and this is why she can take the role as smartly as a man does in this world, which is nasty and brutish. So, for anything that had happened, good or catastrophic, women had been held a reason for the same. She had been used as a tool for instrumentalization. She had been held hostage as well as u...

Have you ever  considered w hat defines you? Are you interested in letting the world know who you are, even if you fear judgment ?  Do the eye-rolls, gossip and envious surroundings influence your decisions to maintain the image you have built?  If not, then, well, you’re doing great! You have known what to prioritise! If yes, I’m really sorry, didn't mean to harm and draw attention to the pettiness and I hope my comment didn't come across in the wrong way! You have to think about what’s the purpose of your life in this magnificent world! Ultimately, one day you will realize that you’re just a speck of dust in this universe and all the voices you heard around you in your favour were nothing but the noises!  When so many birds, animals and other mammals are becoming extinct, when fishes get nothing but only plastic in the ocean, when children are not breastfed appropriately as their moms face malnutrition, when people swallow, drink and breathe toxic gases and live in...