Objectives
- To create an environment that will help women realize their full potential and achieve
self-actualization.
- To build a gender sensitive and inclusive campus
- To sensitize students towards the special needs of all genders.
- To develop optimum physical and mental health of students and staff.
- To provide insights about different kinds of violence: sexual, physical and mental and to further equip
them with the knowledge and strength to fight against them.
Composition
- Dr Asha Menon (Principal)
- Dr Rekha Randive (Co-ordinator)
- Mr. Shailesh Nayak (Registrar)
- Dr Madhumita Bandyopadhyay (Teacher, Member)
- Dr Shobha Bharat (Teacher, Member)
- Dr Vinod Zalte (Teacher, Member)
- Dr. Nimisha Kambli (Teacher, Member)
- Adv. Manjiri Kulkarni (Advocate, Member)
- Ms. Meenakshi Kondary (Non-Teaching Staff, Member)
Activities Conducted in the year 2021-22
Women Development cell organized following series of webinars on Indian Feminism Through the
Ages
- Webinar 1
Date: 23rd December 2021
Inaugural address by Honorable Vice-Chancellor Professor Ujwala Chakradev.
Keynote address on the topic Herstory of Feminism by eminent speaker: Prof. Vibhuti Patel
- Webinar 2
Date: January 10, 2021
Topic: Expressions of Feminism in Therigatha – Poems by Buddhist Nuns
Resource Person: Dr Uma Chakravarti
- Webinar 3
Date: February 09, 2022
Topic: Indian Feminism through Women’s Movement Songs
Resource Person: Dr Lata Pratibha Madhukar
- Webinar 4
Date: February 16, 2022
Topic: In Search of our Past: Roots of Feminist Consciousness among the women in Bhakti movement
Resource Person: Dr Anagha Tambe
- Webinar 5
Date: February 19, 2022
Topic: Stree Purush Tulana: Life and Times of a Feminist Text
Resource Person: Dr Sneha Gole
- Webinar 6
Date: February 22, 2022
Topic: Ismat Chughtai’s Feminist Perspective on literature and Activism
Resource Person: Dr Arvinder Ansari
- Webinar 7
Date: February 28, 2022
Topic: Public Spaces and a politics of gendered visibility in 21st century India
Resource Person: Dr Shilpa Phadke
- Webinar 8
Date: March 8, 2022
Topic: Women Rights and Legal Advocacy in India
Resource person: Adv. Flavia Agnes
- Valedictory session
Date: March 8, 2022
Resource Person: Prof. Sonali Rode, Joint Director Higher Education, Mumbai
