Chandigarh, March 8 -- A session on "Gender and Human Development in North West India" held at Panjab University (PU) on the concluding day of the Chandigarh Social Science Congress (CHASSCONG) on Friday felt timely just a day before the celebrations of International Women's Day. It included a panel discussion by professors Anindita Datta, Jyoti Dogra and Anu Sablok.

Professor Datta's talk, titled "Saanja Chulha, Aapsi Madad", emphasised the importance of feminist methodologies in social science research and showed how these methods allow for new insights on space in the context of the discipline of geography. She discussed the nature of feminist solidarities and everyday feminism that can be observed at the local level. She also drew at...