Anthrobuds

Are we truly safe? Ankita Majumder Sem II, 2024 As the country was going to celebrate it’s 78th Independence Day, a news spread like wildfire on 10th August, stating how a aspiring female doctor, Dr. Moumita Debnath, a second year postgraduate student at R.G. Kar Medical Hospital was found dead.  It was stated that she was brutally raped and murdered. The incident occurred on 9th August and her body was found in the seminar hall on 10th August at 7:30 a.m.  And not only this one there are several more incidents similar to this one occuring every where in our country.  After the Nirbhaya Rape And Murder Case in the year of 2012, there are more cases like that which makes every one of the female question – Are we really safe?  Shakti Mill Gang Rape Case – Mumbai’s Shocking Assaults. In Shakti Mills compund in South Mumbai, 5 males including a juvenile assaulted a 22 year old photo journalist.     2016 Ariyalur Gang-rape Case – Pregnant teen’s...

তুমি তিলোত্তমা স্নেহা উত্থাসিনী  দ্বিতীয় সেমেস্টার ২০২৪ একটা বাবার কাছে তার মেয়ে যে কতটা আদুরে সেটা একমাত্র তার মেয়েই অনুভব করতে পারবে । মেয়ের সমস্ত আবদার- সখ মেটানোর উত্তর দায়িত্ব হলো তার বাবার । এক কথায় যদি বলি মেয়েরা হলো তাদের বাবাদের কাছে এক ছোট্টো-মিষ্টি রাজকন্যা । আজ কাল যারা facebook, Instagram-এর মতো নানান সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া অ্যাপস্ গুলি ব্যবহার করে থাকেন তারা নিশ্চই জানবেন খুব viral-একটা Reels, “পাপা কি পরি "। বাক্যটা হাস্যকর হলেও একটা বাবার কাছে তার মেয়ে সত্যিই ‘পরি' আর এই পরিদের স্বপ্ন পূরন করতে/খুশি করতে তাদের বাবারা অকথ্য- যথাসাধ্য চেষ্টা করেন।। কিন্তু, এক বাবার খুব আদর যত্নে বড়ো করে তোলা এক পরির নগ্ন, বিকৃত অঙ্গ এবং অবিরাম রক্তপাত সহ মেঝেতে তার দেহ অচল অবস্থায় পড়ে থাকতে যদি আবিষ্কার হয়, তবে কি সেটা তার বাবার কাছে খুব সৌভাগ্যের ব্যাপার হবে?  গত কয়েক দিন আছে কলকাতার আর. জি. কর. মেডিক্যাল হাসপাতালের একটি সেমিনার রুমে একটা পরি অর্থাৎ একটা মেয়ের ছিন্ন ভিন্ন রক্তমাখা দেহ উদ্ধার করা হয়। মেয়েটির নাম তিলোত্তমা ( হিন্দু পুরাণে বর্ণিত অপ্সরা স্বর্গীয় জলপরী ) । সংস্কৃতে...

 Care and suffocation by  Ankita Majumder (Sem II, 2024) Sometimes this caring for someone can feel like suffocation. Sometimes this care, this strictness, this protective nature can feel like a rope around your neck. And it feels more like one so, when it comes from a manipulative, narcissistic person. This person would randomly start to argue about something, completely illogical and will then act to his family members that he didn’t just spoke words of vulgarity to them. This person would never admit his mistakes, and will give the blame on someone else’s shoulders. This person would forget to bring back something which his family told him to and then will yell that his family members are a bunch of liers and that they didn’t informed him about the thing from before. He would completely give his blame to his family. He would always get and have the bigger portion of food but then after every month’s grocery shopping will tell, oh no sorry, order his family membe...

Urban Space: Perspectives of Leisure in Aircraft Museum, New Town by Anuradha Chakraborty Click here for the report  

 Exploring Hajaritala Market, New Town: Photos and Stories By Anuradha Chakraborty, Semester VI, 2024 Click here for the report

  Students' Presentation 5: Theories - Diffusionism, Evolutionism and Historical Particularism On 31.07.2024, a group of college students presented a detailed and engaging session on three key theoretical perspectives in anthropology: Evolutionism, Diffusionism, and Historical Particularism. The event was organized as part of the anthropology department's ongoing seminar series, with the aim of fostering a deeper understanding of these foundational concepts among peers and future students. The presentation began with an overview of Evolutionism , which posits that cultures develop through a series of stages, progressing from simple to complex societies. The students highlighted key figures such as Edward Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan, discussing their contributions to early anthropological thought. Next, the focus shifted to Diffusionism , the theory that cultural traits spread from one society to another through contact. The presenters explored both unilinear and multilinear di...

The point of breaking down by Ankita Majumder, Sem I, 2023 Every person has a limit of tolerance.  And when this limit is surpassed, it creates chaos. A chaos so destructive that the feelings of those who are hurt due to this chaos can never be mended.  And that’s exactly what he did. She was extremely sick today. He came and asked if she had made some food for him. To which she said that she is sick, how can she. He did said it’s okay but she noticed how his facial expressions changed. After that with that sickness in her body, she made him a chapathi and gave him some lentil soup to eat with it. He told her that he shouldn’t have asked her about food and started to blame her for not making four breads instead of two for him during breakfast. His reason being that If she had given him four breads to eat during breakfast then he wouldn’t have asked her about food right now. With that the husband and wife started quarreling amongst them. One thing lead go another which ...