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#Chennaifloods: How Climate Change Discourse Is Marred By Gender Bias

#Chennaifloods: How Climate Change Discourse Is Marred By Gender Bias

by The Daily Eye Team December 12 2015, 3:40 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secs

Ever since the devastating images of Chennai deluge have been flooding our television screens, with a choked-to-neck social media trying its best to fill in the gaping blanks, sending out SOS alerts, retweeting helpline numbers, broadcasting locations where people are stranded fearing for their lives, somehow the importance of the Paris Climate Conference, and the overall dystopian future of mass environmental displacements, are staring us in the face. Though “commitments” to fight climate change have been sounded again and again at various air-conditioned seminar rooms and summit halls of super-luxury hotels, somehow the world leaders, most of whom are men, cannot come to terms with adapting to a more caring, nurturing discourse, instead preferring an aggressive self-aggrandising stance, out-competing each other in a you-budge-first game of climate wars.

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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