Pratyusha Pramanik is a Research Scholar and Teaching Assistant in IIT(BHU) Varanasi. She is interested in Post Colonial Resistance and Protest Movements, Gender and Film Studies. She loves momos, coffee and binge-watching K-Dramas. If not gender sensitising her students, she is busy planning her next solo trip. She will someday own a cafe or a sunflower field.
A Leaf in the Storm, a short story by Lalithambika Antharjanam, is a layered narrative that brings together the themes of violence, gender, and partition.
The recently released Telugu movie Pushpa: The Rise brings forward some brute on-ground realities but also is an urgent call to critically deal with how society accepts the superiority of a certain type of masculinity as the deciding quality of a conventional hero.
The Second Wave of feminism is usually demarcated from the 1960s to the late 1980s. It was a reaction to women returning to their roles as housewives and mothers after the Second World War.