SHAILAJA MENON
Biographic Data
| ID | 5972649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | SHAILAJA MENON |
| GIVEN NAMES | SHAILAJA |
| FAMILY NAME | MENON |
| SIGNATURE | MENON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambedkar University Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7272-5858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Desire to punish
Unsettling Turns in Early Childhood Education
Envisioning ‘Prabuddha Bharat’
Editorial
Juhapura
Ahmedabad, founded by Sultan Ahmed Shah in 1411, is the commercial capital of Gujarat and home to pharmaceuticals, construction and textiles industries. It was also known as Manchester of the East because of the thriving textile industries. Underneath this economic growth story lies a city that has been affected by several instances of communal violence since 1947. Post-independence, the city has recorded four major events of communal violence: i…
Periyar
The category of gender has perennially found itself at the margins because of its social location across South Asia. Albeit heterogeneous by nature, women have borne the burden of history, community, tradition and even geography being violently mapped across their bodies. No wonder that the past two centuries has witnessed heated debates on the women’s question in the region ranging from the Altekarian paradigm to the valorized mother figure who …
Gendered Reflections on the Hindu Code Bill
Women were always portrayed as self-sacrificing and demure, prisoner of various orthodox traditions and devoted to their family. 1 Her behaviour should be modelled on various religious texts, and she would be severely punished if any moral code were violated. However, at the socio-economic and political levels, she was rendered invisible. It was during the colonial phase of India’s historical trajectory that the gender question attained centre st…
Crafting Words and Creating Dalit Histories
Many communities are not privileged enough to possess histories which also reflects their precarious position in the sociocultural hierarchy. As Trouillot observed, ‘History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis become superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility, the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots’. (Trouillot, 1995, p. 19) Thus, the possession of history scripted or…
Contesting Culture
Cinema as an art form vividly captures the aspirations and everyday life-worlds of the people in India. In more contemporary times, suffused with the global language of desire, popular Indian cinema has sought to project the nation as a global power, while invisibilizing the faultiness of caste, gender, race and ethnicity. The films are increasingly shot in exotic locales with the lead characters leading enchanted lives. Innovative technology is …
Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation
The Semiotics of Parenthood in India
This paper interrogates the semiotics of parenthood based on autoethnography and the understanding of such personal experiences from the standpoint of a participant observer. It attempts to revisit the assumptions regarding parenthood/reproduction from the perspectives of the Hindu family, society and the state. Despite the changes ushered in by industrialisation and a rapidly globalising economy, children in the Indian context (especially sons) …
The Seismicity of Liquor in Andhra Pradesh
The state of Andhra Pradesh sought to augment its revenue resources through liberalising its liquor policy, which is expected to engender revenue worth more than ₹15,000 crores annually. The political economy of liquor has generated a lot of debate while testing the notion of a welfare state. This is organised loot by the ruling oligarchy to extract maximum yields, while diluting the gains of the development agenda. In the rural areas, the state …
Rita Banerji, Sex and Power
Sabiha Hussain, Exposing the Myths of Muslim Fertility
A comparison of first graders' reading with little books or literature-based basal anthologies
This study examined the effectiveness of a little book curriculum in facilitating the independent word-solving skills of first-grade readers. The curriculum was based on a theoretical model that identified two critical dimensions of text-based support for beginning readers: linguistic content and cognitive load. The 15-week little book intervention was conducted in four first-grade classrooms of an inner-city school in a large urban district. Two…
A comparison of first graders' reading with little books or literature-based basal anthologies
This study examined the effectiveness of a little book curriculum in facilitating the independent word-solving skills of first-grade readers. The curriculum was based on a theoretical model that identified two critical dimensions of text-based support for beginning readers: linguistic content and cognitive load. The 15-week little book intervention was conducted in four first-grade classrooms of an inner-city school in a large urban district. Two…
The Semiotics of Parenthood in India
This paper interrogates the semiotics of parenthood based on autoethnography and the understanding of such personal experiences from the standpoint of a participant observer. It attempts to revisit the assumptions regarding parenthood/reproduction from the perspectives of the Hindu family, society and the state. Despite the changes ushered in by industrialisation and a rapidly globalising economy, children in the Indian context (especially sons) …
Crafting Words and Creating Dalit Histories
Many communities are not privileged enough to possess histories which also reflects their precarious position in the sociocultural hierarchy. As Trouillot observed, ‘History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis become superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility, the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots’. (Trouillot, 1995, p. 19) Thus, the possession of history scripted or…
A comparison of first graders' reading with little books or literature-based basal anthologies
This study examined the effectiveness of a little book curriculum in facilitating the independent word-solving skills of first-grade readers. The curriculum was based on a theoretical model that identified two critical dimensions of text-based support for beginning readers: linguistic content and cognitive load. The 15-week little book intervention was conducted in four first-grade classrooms of an inner-city school in a large urban district. Two…
Sabiha Hussain, Exposing the Myths of Muslim Fertility
Rita Banerji, Sex and Power
The Seismicity of Liquor in Andhra Pradesh
The state of Andhra Pradesh sought to augment its revenue resources through liberalising its liquor policy, which is expected to engender revenue worth more than ₹15,000 crores annually. The political economy of liquor has generated a lot of debate while testing the notion of a welfare state. This is organised loot by the ruling oligarchy to extract maximum yields, while diluting the gains of the development agenda. In the rural areas, the state …
Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation
The Semiotics of Parenthood in India
This paper interrogates the semiotics of parenthood based on autoethnography and the understanding of such personal experiences from the standpoint of a participant observer. It attempts to revisit the assumptions regarding parenthood/reproduction from the perspectives of the Hindu family, society and the state. Despite the changes ushered in by industrialisation and a rapidly globalising economy, children in the Indian context (especially sons) …
Contesting Culture
Cinema as an art form vividly captures the aspirations and everyday life-worlds of the people in India. In more contemporary times, suffused with the global language of desire, popular Indian cinema has sought to project the nation as a global power, while invisibilizing the faultiness of caste, gender, race and ethnicity. The films are increasingly shot in exotic locales with the lead characters leading enchanted lives. Innovative technology is …
Crafting Words and Creating Dalit Histories
Many communities are not privileged enough to possess histories which also reflects their precarious position in the sociocultural hierarchy. As Trouillot observed, ‘History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis become superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility, the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots’. (Trouillot, 1995, p. 19) Thus, the possession of history scripted or…
Envisioning ‘Prabuddha Bharat’
Editorial
Juhapura
Ahmedabad, founded by Sultan Ahmed Shah in 1411, is the commercial capital of Gujarat and home to pharmaceuticals, construction and textiles industries. It was also known as Manchester of the East because of the thriving textile industries. Underneath this economic growth story lies a city that has been affected by several instances of communal violence since 1947. Post-independence, the city has recorded four major events of communal violence: i…
Periyar
The category of gender has perennially found itself at the margins because of its social location across South Asia. Albeit heterogeneous by nature, women have borne the burden of history, community, tradition and even geography being violently mapped across their bodies. No wonder that the past two centuries has witnessed heated debates on the women’s question in the region ranging from the Altekarian paradigm to the valorized mother figure who …
Gendered Reflections on the Hindu Code Bill
Women were always portrayed as self-sacrificing and demure, prisoner of various orthodox traditions and devoted to their family. 1 Her behaviour should be modelled on various religious texts, and she would be severely punished if any moral code were violated. However, at the socio-economic and political levels, she was rendered invisible. It was during the colonial phase of India’s historical trajectory that the gender question attained centre st…
Desire to punish
Unsettling Turns in Early Childhood Education
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