The New model of Masculinity to fight Sexual Harassment
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project required me to be in constant conversation with a lot of people from within DAIICT as well as outside. I would like to thank
First and foremost, I would like to thank my mentor, Professor G.N
Devy, for his guidance. It was his constant encouragement and trust in my efforts which pushed me to work harder when I almost caved in to self doubt. Indeed, having a mentor who believes in your work is a huge moral boost and without him, I would not have seen the end of this project.
all those students – boys across different batches of B.Tech and
Post-Graduate courses – who took out time for me and patiently explained their point of views and feedbacks. I would also like to thank Adira Thekkuvittil (Ahmedabad) and Payal Arya (Mumbai) for giving me insights into their projects which dealt with the perception of women in public spaces and sexual harassment respectively. I am also grateful to Professor Vishvajit Pandya and Professor
Madhumita Mazumdar for their valuable critiquing which pushed me to question and justify every aspect of this project. Without their guidance, the very basis of this project would have been on shaky ground.
My heartfelt thanks to Ms. Nandita Gandhi, Co-Director of Akshara
Foundation (Mumbai), for making time for me in her busy schedule and helping me to clarify objectives and questions for the primary research. The Akshara handbook, Unwanted Attention, and their short film on sexual harassment has also been tremendously helpful
Huge thanks to my classmates, the girls – for their support and late
strengthening the background for my research.
night discussions, and the boys – for their point of views – especially
Manu Kamath and Avik Ganguli, who were my very first interviewees. Theirs were the most extensive and polar point of
Last but not the least, I extend my thanks to all the respondents of
views regarding sexual harassment which encompassed a lot of
the online
This project required me to be in constant conversation with a lot of people from within DAIICT as well as outside. I would like to thank
First and foremost, I would like to thank my mentor, Professor G.N
Devy, for his guidance. It was his constant encouragement and trust in my efforts which pushed me to work harder when I almost caved in to self doubt. Indeed, having a mentor who believes in your work is a huge moral boost and without him, I would not have seen the end of this project.
all those students – boys across different batches of B.Tech and
Post-Graduate courses – who took out time for me and patiently explained their point of views and feedbacks. I would also like to thank Adira Thekkuvittil (Ahmedabad) and Payal Arya (Mumbai) for giving me insights into their projects which dealt with the perception of women in public spaces and sexual harassment respectively. I am also grateful to Professor Vishvajit Pandya and Professor
Madhumita Mazumdar for their valuable critiquing which pushed me to question and justify every aspect of this project. Without their guidance, the very basis of this project would have been on shaky ground.
My heartfelt thanks to Ms. Nandita Gandhi, Co-Director of Akshara
Foundation (Mumbai), for making time for me in her busy schedule and helping me to clarify objectives and questions for the primary research. The Akshara handbook, Unwanted Attention, and their short film on sexual harassment has also been tremendously helpful
Huge thanks to my classmates, the girls – for their support and late
strengthening the background for my research.
night discussions, and the boys – for their point of views – especially
Manu Kamath and Avik Ganguli, who were my very first interviewees. Theirs were the most extensive and polar point of
Last but not the least, I extend my thanks to all the respondents of
views regarding sexual harassment which encompassed a lot of
the online
Citations: forms of inequity and the suffering born of it.” (Nandy, A. (1988).