A dating app controversy at a leading Indian university prises open a tale of two Indias
Sarah Thanawala | 19 December 2023 | The Leaflet
A raging controversy at the OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana has provided a timely opportunity to explore some very basic but extremely important concepts.
What is the purpose of education? What is feminism and how do we define a ‘women’s rights advocate’? How do gender, caste, sexuality, politics and education intersect and criss-cross and is there a ‘proper’, ‘codified’ way to grab the strands of this mesh? Or should everyone be able to unravel the mesh as they deem fit? Is that the purpose of education?
It all started when Dr Sameena Dalwai, who is a professor at the university and whose work focuses on gender, sexuality and law, opened the dating app Bumble in the classroom.