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Articles by Urvi Sharma
History Is Not Old News: Priya Hajela’s New Book Explains Why
After Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the Education Minister amid nationwide protests over NEET-UG examination leaks, I witnessed a gathering in my city that left me uneasy. An elderly activist spoke to a largely young crowd about the freedom movement and why defending the Indian republic required remembering those who had fought for it. But the crowd grew restless and asked him to finish; they wanted to celebrate and dance.
One Year On, ‘Mother Mary’ Still Comes To Me
When Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me was released last year, much of the conversation around the memoir centred on a question that seemed almost as difficult as the relationship it described: What does a daughter owe her mother in the retelling of her life? Roy’s portrait of her mother, formidable and at times deeply uncomfortable, was praised for its candour, even as a handful of readers felt uneasy about the liberties Roy took in portraying her mother.
The Woman Behind The Myth: On Wendy Doniger’s ‘For The Love Of Stories’
Claude Lévi Strauss wrote that “a myth is an always doomed attempt to solve an insoluble contradiction and the inevitable failure of that enterprise is what drives a culture to tell the same story over and over again, finding ever new ways to show how the square peg does not fit into the round hole.” Wendy Doniger’s memoir unfolds through the same enduring contradictions that characterises her readings of myth.
Romila Thapar’s ‘Just Being’: In Search For Autonomy
Romila Thapar’s recently released memoir, Just Being, is many things at once. It is a manifesto for historians, a touchstone for academic researchers, a chronicle of familial relationships and emancipatory friendships, a travelogue where every anecdote detonates into a larger question about history, ethics, language, and civic responsibility.
‘A Hymn to Life’ by Gisèle Pelicot: When shame changed sides
In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot, then 71 years old, emerged as a global feminist icon after she declined the legal protection of anonymity during her rape trial in France, transforming a private horror into a public reckoning. For more than a decade, her husband had allegedly drugged her, raping her and inviting at least 72 men to do the same. If shame hovers in this story, waiving off her anonymity was a declaration that it was never hers to carry. It belonged to the rapists.
Using AWS Edge to optimize object uploads to Amazon S3 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 is a highly scalable, secure, and durable object storage service that offers industry-leading performance and availability. It’s widely used to store a variety of unstructured data such as images, videos, backups, and logs. However, when uploading data to Amazon S3, especially large files or data accessed from different Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions, choosing the right architecture pattern becomes crucial for optimizing performance and cost.
Mother Mary, Bollywood and ChatGPT
Before I sat down to write this piece, I did something I often warn my students against: I asked ChatGPT to write on ‘Reading in the Age of AI’ for me. Now, don’t get me wrong! As a professor who sternly cautions against the use of generative AI on account of ethical and climate concerns in the university classroom, I approached the prompt with a certain moral armour.
Issue Editor’s Note: Decentering the Center
By Urvi Sharma Raymond Williams was an exceptional visionary who talked about the complexity of emergent culture within any society back in 1977.
Opinion: They Want To Confine Love For They Know It Can Dismantle Hate And Bigotry
In any part of the world, falling in love is an act that is tender and soft but in India, it is a rebellion. To love in India without care about its social structures is brave. I wish India becomes a country of those who are brave. -Gurmehar Kaur, The Young and Restless Representational image. Love is possibly one expression which represents so many things, from sentimental Bollywood representations to an abstract religious symbolism, that it is absolutely impossible to explain it. It is a paradox.
I Wish I Didn’t Have To Face These Things As A South Asian Woman
Being a woman in the 21st century might be one of the most challenging and confusing times. When I was just ten years old, making it to the medical school was a far-fetched dream for my family. But just fifteen years on, it’s a dream that seems so feasible that we laugh at the idea of not believing that women of our skin colour can achieve such greatness. It has been a very confusing decade for me as a South Asian woman.
“हारकर फिर दोगुनी ताकत से उठ खड़ा होना सिखाने के लिए शुक्रिया आचार्य महोदय”
पूज्य आचार्य महोदय, आप वो कुम्हार हो जो मिट्टी से बर्तन नहीं, सृष्टि निर्माण करने वालों को रचते हैं। मुझे भी आपने गढ़ा है, नमन है आपको। हाल में ही घटी कुछ घटनाओं ने मुझे आहत किया तो सोचा क्यों ना आपसे आज के बदलते परिवेश को लेकर कुछ विचार साझा कर लूं। चेष्टा कर रहा हूं गलतियों के लिए क्षमाप्रार्थी हूं। जीवन, व्यवहार, विचार, परिवेश पहले की अपेक्षा बहुत तेज़ी से बदल रहे हैं। समय जो आगे बढ़ना सिखाता है, उससे सीख लेकर हम समय को ही पीछे छोड़ने का प्रयत्न कर रहे हैं। सब जल्दी में हैं कुछ खोना हो या कुछ...
I Am My Own Competition: What My Favourite Teacher Taught Me
When We Gifted Our Teacher A Gold Plated Earring On Her Birthday There are some things which remain engraved in our minds no matter how many years pass by or how many different directions life takes us. One such memory is of my time as a class 4 student in Maharaja Hari Singh Agricultural Collegiate School, Nagbani situated on Akhnoor road off the main city Jammu Tawi.
An Open Letter To The Teacher Who Inspired Me To Be One
Dear Archana ma’am, I hope I’m spelling your name right. It’s rather flippant on my part that I am not even sure how to spell the name of the teacher who has had such a profound impact on my perspective towards life. I was in the second year of my college waiting for the class to begin.
Cliche But True: My Mum Was My Teacher Who Taught Me About Feminism
To the one who (unknowingly) showed me how to be a feminist. It is said that a parent is a child’s first teacher and though it is an old, maybe cliché line, it is the biggest truth of my life. Mom, you were born at a time when the term ‘feminism’ was not commonly heard, yet, throughout my life, you have laid the foundation for me to be a steadfast feminist. More importantly, you’ve done that not by saying, but by being.
Kangana Ranaut’s Problematic Stance On Mental Health
By Aatish Shinde and Gayatri Kotbagi Just when I thought I had seen it all this year, I see Kangana Ranaut declaring that there is no valid medical proof of mental illness and asking whether ‘MRI scans show bipolar and other psychological illnesses’. Absolutely baffling to see all this in 2020. About 500 years ago if you had an epileptic seizure, it was clear where it was coming from — demonic possession.
When I Was Stared At, For Being At A Chai Tapri, I Wished I Was A Man
Coming from a relatively protected upbringing, I have not experienced the kind of violence and discrimination that many women in our country face on a daily basis. But I happen to believe that patriarchy affects most women and men in one form or another. So if we listen to each other, no matter where we come from, women and men, all races and socio-cultural backgrounds might find common grounds and stories to share.
Shakuntala Devi Pits Motherhood Against Ambition And It’s Not Cool
A thinking woman was considered such a breach of nature that a Harvard doctor reported during his autopsy on a Radcliffe graduate he discovered that her uterus had shrivelled to the size of a pea -The Madwoman in the Attic When Shakuntala Devi starring Vidya Balan released on July 31, the audience was curious to get a sneak peek into the life of Shakuntala Devi, the prodigious Mathematician who lived life on her own terms.
Awarding of absurdly high marks by CBSE, ICSE is harming students of state boards
Recently, the Class XII board results were announced — plenty of students have scored 90+, 95+ % marks. These students would have of course worked very hard and devoted many sleepless nights to achieve these results.
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