Learnings

  As the last assignment, I was wondering whom to contact and connect in these tough times. I did not want to revive someone’s memory of a painful process and leave them later to brood in it. That was my first idea of being compassionate. Be mindful of my action and take into consideration the feelings of another person. I defined my idea of compassion as being empathetic rather than sympathetic, trying to understand the other person’s emotions, their thought process, and not to judge their actions negatively. I lived a full day of compassion on 20 th August 2020. From the morning to the last person I saw in the evening I was very much conscious about my behavior patterns and how it is affecting others. I smiled, waved, greet our hostel security guard, the lady who comes to clean my room and try to talk to them. It was very surprising that how they respond so positively with bright smiles and ask my well being in response too. My day started with great spirits. As the day prog...

  Intimate partner violence is one of the most frequently seen and inflicted violence types worldwide which leads to considerable damage to human life. By definition, Intimate partner violence is referred to as a pattern of coercive behaviors that leads to abuse. It includes physical, sexual, and psychological abuse (week 2 lect:1 0:25). Showing violence in the film has different effects on the human mind. Addressing the impact and effects of showing intimate partner violence in the film, the context to which it is shown, and how it might be normalizing the existing social norms or helping in awareness towards the inflicted violence. Here, I have taken the Indian movie BULBUL. The movie is towards feminism and portrays an aspect of gender imbalance in the 1800 century West Bengal, India. The context of the movie is a girl named bulbul played by Tripti Dimari, is subjected to child marriage to a man much older than her and is living in a mansion with him and his family. As she is gr...