Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Debate on Women Human Rights' Defenders: Day 5























In memory of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we held a debate at Ethiraj College for Women. We started off with a small talk by Swarna ma'am on Prajnya's beginnings, and the importance of having conversations on gender. We then moved into the debate, which had 4 speakers on each side. We all felt the research that went into the speakers' arguments could have been a little better, but there were some vociferous voices among them; and as Archanaa (one of our judges) pointed out: it took a great amount of courage and initiative to even present for a debate, let alone one on gender equality. Swarna ma'am took over again, to gently remind them of the workings of a debate, and how preparation will take one far in terms of career growth. We were especially excited to present the winners with Nivedita Menon's Seeing Like a Feminist, and the best speaker with Zia Mody's book on judgements that had changed India. 





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Malavika

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