‘Campus Mothers’: Unveiling Misogyny Behind IIT Kharagpur’s New Initiative
Soumili Paul | 16 July 2025 | Feminism in India
When the district administration in Kota decided to install spring-loaded fans in the rooms of students to prevent students’ suicide, netizens were quick to call them out. The incident being referred to here might be of yesteryear, but the similarity between the ideation behind the spring-loaded fans and the newly envisioned “Campus Mothers” programme by IIT Kharagpur reeks of the same underlying problem: the administrative inability to address the structural crises plaguing students’ lives. Moreover, the programme title is indicative of the administration’s myopic and sexist lens that does not see beyond the stereotypical roles that have been attached to Indian women….