Prof. Dr. R. Meenakumari, Director of the National Institute of Siddha, welcomed the gathering and introduced Ms. Geetha Ilangovan, a well-known journalist and independent filmmaker.
\nMs. Geetha Ilangovan, have been doing short films and documentary films since 2005. She started with short film `Little space’ which bagged many awards including SCARF award and she did a documentary film in Tamil `Madhavidaai’ (Mensus) which speaks about myths, misconceptions, strange practices related to menstruation, lack of public toilets for girl children and women, facilities to be created in public sphere etc.<\/p>\n
It bagged 2nd best documentary in the International Women Film Festival held in Chennai. She also did 3 conversational films for children regarding caste discrimination including the one on `honour killing’, in 2018.<\/p>\n
Ms. Geetha Ilangovan hosted an interactive session on “Balancing the Professional and Personal Life.” She had a lively discussion with all of the teachers and PG students, offering unique approaches and ideas for keeping the balance of personal and professional space.<\/p>\n
All women employees of NIS have been participated and benefitted from this programme.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prof. Dr. R. Meenakumari, Director of the National Institute of Siddha, welcomed the gathering and introduced Ms. Geetha Ilangovan, a well-known journalist and independent filmmaker. Ms. Geetha Ilangovan, have been doing short films and documentary films since 2005. She started with short…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/nis-iwd-2022-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nischennai.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}