Nivedita Menon is an Indian author and professor, known for raising slogans against India during the JNU protests over the Kashmir conflict in March 2016.
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Wiki/Biography
Nivedita Menon was born in 1958 (age 64 years; as in 2022) in Mumbai. She attended Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and obtained her bachelor’s degree. He also has a PhD degree.
Physical Appearance
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
Nivedita’s brother’s name is Dilip Menon, who is a historian at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and her sister’s name is Pramada Menon, who is the former co-founder and director of CREA.
Nivedita Menon with her mother, brother and sister
husband and children
Nivedita is divorced and has a child.
academic career
In 2009, Nivedita joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and started teaching at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. He also taught in the Department of Political Science of Delhi University for seven years and Lady Shri Ram College for 15 years before joining JNU.
Controversy
On 12 March 2016, Saurabh Sharma, BJP student wing leader and joint secretary of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), filed a complaint against Nivedita, claiming that she made ‘anti-national’ remarks during a lecture at JNU. Was. Nationalism. In his lecture, he questioned the Indian state over human rights excesses in Jammu and Kashmir and Nagaland. The complaint against Nivedita was lodged at Vasant Kunj police station in New Delhi. A news channel showed an edited video of her lecture and said that she was trying to mislead JNU students. In the video he said,
Hindu society is the most violent, fundamentally violent society in the world.”
award
In 1994, Nivedita won the AK Ramanujan Award for translation from Hindi and Malayalam into English.
Facts/General Knowledge
- Many of his students also know him by the name ‘Nivi’.
- She replaced beauty pageants with Freshers’ Talent Contest in Delhi University in the 1980s because beauty pageants were highly criticized at that time.
- In an interview, she said that she learned about sexuality and politics by reading the work of global feminists such as Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, and Gloria Steinem.
- Nivedita has written and edited several books about feminism and politics, including Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004).
- ‘Seeing Like a Feminist’, a book written by her in 2012, gained immense popularity due to the anger against Delhi gang rape.
- Nivedita has written many articles, but one of her articles which received a lot of praise was based on Uniform Civil Code (UCC). In the article he wrote,
The issue of Uniform Civil Code has nothing to do with gender justice. This is entirely related to the Hindu nationalist agenda of ‘disciplining’ Muslims.
- In the film ‘The Kashmir Files’ released in 2022, Nivedita’s character was Radhika Menon, a JNU professor who instigates her student to fight for the freedom of Kashmir and the role was played by actress Pallavi Joshi. Had performed.
- She is also called a feminist writer because many of her articles are based on feminism and gender equality. Some of them include ‘Is Feminism About Women?,’ ‘The Anti-Corruption Movement and the Left,’ ‘The Postnational Condition,’ and ‘Radical Resistance and Political Violence Today.’
- In an interview, she expressed her opinion about why girls are blamed for wearing short clothes and becoming victims of rape. He said,
The notion of choice is not sufficient to answer this because such freedom of choice is always exercised within strict boundaries that cannot be compromised – class, race, caste and gender-based. Women do make choices but not in circumstances of their own making. And often, women make choices that go against standard feminist values. Here, we see the contradiction between the two core beliefs of feminism – the belief in women’s autonomy versus the hegemony of dominant values that constrain freedom of choice.
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