Smruti's Blog

  Whose Knowledge Counts? AI, Labour, and Indigenous Epistemology in Aranya Sahay's  Humans in the Loop  (2024) This blog is written as part of a sunday reading film screening assignment structured around a screening of Aranya Sahay's Humans in the Loop (2024), a documentary that places an Adivasi woman named Nehma at the centre of a quietly urgent question: what happens to human knowledge particularly indigenous, lived, culturally embedded knowledge when it is fed into the machinery of artificial intelligence? The assignment is designed in three stages, moving from preparation to active engagement to critical reflection, because cinema of this kind demands more than passive viewing. It demands that the viewer arrive with conceptual tools, watch with analytical attention, and leave with something to argue. Accordingly, this blog is organized into four sections: a contextual grounding in the film's background and core themes, a set of pre-viewing frameworks drawn from fil...

'The Joys of Motherhood' by Buchi Emecheta This blog is a thinking activity assigned by Megha Trivedi ma'am, for the African Literature paper's unit-2 which is a novel by Buchi Emecheta reflecting on the concept of motherhood deeply. If Nnu Ego were living in 21st-century urban India or Africa, how would her understanding of motherhood, identity, and success change? In The Joys of Motherhood , Buchi Emecheta interrogates the cultural idealization of motherhood within colonial and patriarchal Nigeria. Through Nnu Ego’s life, the novel reveals how fertility, sacrifice, and maternal endurance become the primary measures of female worth (Emecheta). Reimagining Nnu Ego in 21st-century urban India or Africa spaces shaped by neoliberal economies, globalization, and feminist activism allows for a critical reassessment of how motherhood, identity, and success might be differently negotiated today. Drawing on African feminist thought and contemporary gender scholarship, this ref...

 Revolution Twenty 20 by Chetan Bhagat This blog is a part of a task assigned by Dilip Barad sir, in form of Worksheet to analyse the Characters, Themes and Cover page understanding of us with help of AI assistance. For checking the backgroung details click here- Popular Literature - Chetan Bhagat's R2020 .