You need some good quality coal or else you are in for a lot of effort, as we found out. Now, coal is the unsung hero of any barbeque night. ? But then barbeque has its own charm and it didn’t require much convincing. Now came the tough part – to convince our club-hopping, party lover friends to spend their weekend at home!! That battle which Deepika Padukone fights when she tries to domesticate Ranbir Kapoor in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
Lazy bum !! ? So when a few friends decided to come over last weekend, I and Pallabi knew that this was the best chance for us to open the barbeque setup which Pallabi has got as dowry (yes you read it right!! Ki and Ka much before the movie ? ). Notice the clear mention of them coming over and not me going anywhere. We all know that awesome feeling when friends come over for a get-together. Here’s the song, though, for those who don’t remember it ? ? We have done parallel elections of GSCASH and boycotted the ICC.Now before you remember the infamous Himesh Reshammiya song, let me assure you this blog post is not about it. Last year the Vice-Chancellor arbitrarily dismantled the GSCASH and implemented ICC.
Our battle is of ensuring safe campus free from any kind of harassment.” He continues, “We are constantly fighting in the campus for bringing back GSCASH, a body that is democratic in nature, unlike the ICC that is more dictatorial. He said, “From the JNUSU we are supporting this campaign of stopping sexist songs in the hostel nights. But ICC has been a limiting body to achieve this goal. In conversation with Aejaz Ahmad Rather, General Secretary of Jawahal Lal Nehru Students Union (JNUSU), we get an insight on the battle between GSCASH and ICC and their struggle to ensure a safe campus, free from any kind of harassment.
It is also infamous for giving clean chit to Atul Johri who had multiple #metoo allegations in his name.
ICC governed by the administration has been in constant controversy for further harassing the complainants of sexual harassment by barring them from the University. The administration of JNU has quashed the GSCASH and placed an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) on its place. Quashing of GSCASH, demand of the students association to bring down ICC This is where our campaign ‘dekho magar consent se’ happens to come about.” It normalizes to look, feel and think in a certain way about women and completely disregard the consent. The point is such these songs address the culture where it is normalized. She says, “The point is not that by listening to sexist numbers, one will go out and rape. It is, therefore pretty obvious that the song has been written by a guy who thinks street harassment is ‘fun’.” Swati Simha, Gender Sensitization Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH) representative untangles the idea of “why rape is more a culture” to those who think sexism as a social evil is still debatable. She continues, “Find one woman whose fantasy is that she gets harassed on the streets by a guy. “S eeti bajaye beech sadak mein (whistling/catcalling in the middle of the street, in reference to popular Hindi song) is something working women face every day as street harassment but it is shown as part of women’s imagination of fun,” said Abhiruchi Ranjan, PhD Scholar at JNU. In an exclusive interview with The Logical Indian, JNU’s GSCASH representative Swati Simha, PhD Scholar Abhiruchi Ranjan, JNUSU General Secretary Aejaz Rather and other students part of the campaign gives insightful details that reopens a discourse to de-stabilize female objectification solidified in our culture as the norm. “ JNU me waise to naari shakti ki baatein hoti hai, lekin cultural night ate hi sab naariyan lollipop ban jaati hai (There is always conversation around women empowerment in JNU but they are reduced to mere lollipops in cultural nights)”, read the campaign poster. Students of Godavari hostel started a campaign called ‘Dekho magar consent se (Look, but with consent)’, a powerful conversation to disinfect popular culture from stale patriarchal stench to make entertainment a space where women can participate and involve as dignified and equal individuals instead of mere ‘lollipops’ and ‘tandoori murgi’ (tandoori chicken). The high voltage grooves of patriarchal songs that objectify women were recently thrown off by the girls of ‘Godavari Hostel’, Jawahar Lal University (JNU) at their Cultural and DJ Night held on March 29 and March 31 respectively. In the era that’s boasts of ‘girl power’, jamming to sexist lyrics coiled around catchy beats seldom sets off an alarm in the brains of young millennial.