Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Department, IIT Jammu in its second bi-monthly talk series titled ‘Dialogue Over A Cuppa’ organized an interactive session by Dr. Bhumika from Faculty of English.
Topic of the talk was ‘The State and its ‘Hyper-masculine Practices in India’s Northeast: Articulations of resistance in contemporary literary writings from Mizoram and Nagaland’.
The paper looked into the disruptions of everyday life by both state and non-state forces and its hyper-masculine practices and articulations of resistance to such disruptions through attempts in restoring their everyday life by the inhabitants of Nagaland and Mizoram.
Dr. Quleen Kaur Bijral (HOD HSS) attested to the power of oral songs (protest songs) in capturing as a survival strategy the unheard and silences voices of the marginalized while drawing on the necessity of empathy in today’s world.
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