On 29th September, 2016, I used this opportunity of visiting Assam to give a lecture and interact with the history students in the University of Guwahati. Was very happy to note that the Department of history here was established 1948.They have a wonderful Dept. with more women faculty than males.
On 29th September, 2016, conducted a Ph.D viva voce exam at IIT Guwahati and interacted with their students.The IIT campus is beautiful and green and has seven lakes surrounding it and is on the banks of the Brahmaputra river.
On 10th September, 2016, celebrated Navami in Ahmedabad. Happy Navami greetings to every one from Gujarat.
Today as Suresh was rearranging the book shelves in our library he came across this book which is a gem. I have been always fascinated with the character of Karna in Mahabharat since I received this book as an award and read this book way back in 1969 and the fascination continues till today in 2016.
On 21 st June, 2016, I received a copy of my new Book. I am very happy to share with all my friends and students and well wishers my new book on sex trafficking in South Asia with special focus on India, which has been published by Gyan and released today. I want to acknowledge the assistance received from Mr. Umapati the DIG of Police who was with the Anti trafficking Unit and with whom we formed an Anti trafficking network when I was the Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at Maulana Azad National Urdu University. He has written the foreword to this book.
I enjoy giving talks on Gender and culture to the teachers who come for training at the Cultural Resource Centre. I gave a talk here on 6th June, 2016. Here we have more than eighty to ninety school teachers in one batch coming from different parts of India. I have found groups from Sikkim, Bengal, Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and many more states. I feel if I can sensitise one teacher through that teacher I can reach hundreds of High school and Intermediate children. Some batches and very enthusiastic and very inquisitive. It was fun interacting with many such teachers today morning and I found them a very bright group. Dr. Lepika the Director of the Programme makes a lot of effort to sensitise the teachers and is conducting a very successful programme.
A lovely evening at Oakwood Residency Kapil on 4th June, 2016, where the artist, Rangoli Garg displayed her art work on the theme Ladlee. Her art portrays girls in different settings. She is a self taught artist. A lovely evening catching up with few old friends and thanks a lot Subham Pandey and Shakul Pant for having us there. Tarun was more fascinated with their security dog though.
