Was invited to deliver the key note address in St Ann's College, Mehendipatnam, Osmania University in the National Conference on, Cyber crime and victimisation of women on 17th March, 2019. As gender studies people we have always discussed and worked on Gender violence which is one of the greatest impediment in the empowerment of women. With Globalisation and extensive use of information technology, the forms of violence are also changing and today we have new kinds of violence like cyber staking, cyber trolling, cyber pornography, morphing, email spoofing that have become very crucial for our understanding of gender issues. Technology has empowered women and society and has many plus points but it has also a negative aspect that needs to be dealt with. It was a good Conference and met friends like Asha Shukla, who was the Guest of honour, Sudeshana Mukherjee, Hiranmayee Mishra who were Plenary speakers and who had a lot of interesting material on this issue. St Ann's is doing a great job and their young and dynamic Director Popy Nath has put in a lot of efforts in the Centre. It was great to meet others in St. Ann's, Sister Amrita, the Principal, Smita Astana their Dean, Meeta Joshi their head for History and many more faculty. St. Ann's College is one of the good and upcoming colleges for girls in Hyderabad. I have always found this College very interesting for by and large the management is Christian, the faculty Hindu and students Muslim. A perfect example of our secular values.
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