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diff --git a/studentpolitics.tex b/studentpolitics.tex index f2fe8db..f704833 100644 --- a/studentpolitics.tex +++ b/studentpolitics.tex @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ extravagant events and activities. As someone who values freedom over anything, choice was obviously the former one, stating there are better alternatives with better democratic atmosphere (with both inclusive and representative democracy). -About the kind of politics in college, I had written two long articles (here\footnote{gang war 1 [TODO]} -and here\footnote{gang war 2 [TODO]}). The first one had a fierce discussion in the comment section. +About the kind of politics in college, I had written two long articles (here\footnote{See article 'Politics in campus: the need of time'} +and here\footnote{See article 'Account of a campus gang war!!!'}). The first one had a fierce discussion in the comment section. Then my experience in IIIT gave me a new outlook of student politics and democracy in academic institutions. In any system, it completely depends upon the leaders. No one groomed the next generation or batch. If there was someone who was naturally capable of and interested in taking the lead, the whole community would @@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ awareness among female student population (later there was one about geographica the one who defended the girls against his prejudiced, society imposed “ignorant female” thesis. So, it was natural for me to be curious to know whether there is any truth in the thesis put forward by my father (and majority of the society). A reply by Fatima does imply that, they have their own opinions and they do -think and try to understand situations (it seems that they just don’t like to put it up in public forums). +think and try to understand situations (it seems that they just don't like to put it up in public forums). -The cause of my father’s thesis might be the society imposed restrictions on women to get into public -discussions (when you are not part of discussions, you don’t have opinions. It is an age old method of +The cause of my father's thesis might be the society imposed restrictions on women to get into public +discussions (when you are not part of discussions, you don't have opinions. It is an age old method of suppression). Then later, women themselves started restricting themselves from being a part of messy discussions to avoid being tagged. I think Sreebala K. Menon once wrote about this in Mathrubhumi (society tagging females who take their own path in life or express their opinion on worldly issues). |