Understanding estrangement amongst cattle rearers in Barul, Maharashtra
“What will you do with the information”, she looked at us intently and asked, “will you help us?”…
2015
Raul Castro, Cuban President at 70th UN General Assembly
It was 70 years ago that on the behalf of their peoples the member states of this organisation…
Mob Justice among communities in North East India
Mob justice refers to putting a person to death, eviction of a person and destruction of one’s property…
Skill and Growth in Indian Context
Skill is defined as a set of capabilities and abilities that are developed by a person over a…
TISS, Mumbai Student Union: Manipur Tribal Land Rights & State Violence
Tribal students of Manipur, TISS Mumbai with their university Students’ Union organized a candle light vigil to pay…
A fisherman, farmer and displaced labour from Narmada Valley
With lapse of ordinance on land acquisition, all the land acquired by the state from farmers, fisherman stands…
Sena, Cobrapost and the ‘eerie’ Political Silence in Bihar
In these days of high profile political campaigning and mud slinging in Bihar, it is ironic how no…
The State Playing God and Magician : Thoughts after Yakub Memon’s Death
With a finality that only history possesses, Yakub Abdul Razak Menon, an accused in the Bombay blast case,…
30 Years of Narmada Struggle : Jeevan Adhikar Satyagraha, Badwani, Madhya Pradesh
The Narmada Bachao Andolan has begun an indefinite Jeevan Adhikar Satyagraha amidst thousands of oustees at Rajghat, Badwani…
है तमाशा ये क्या ! १ अगस्त : अण्णाभाऊ साठे जयंती
जहाँ आज की मीडिया प्रजातान्त्रिक हुकूमत के सामने रेंगती हुई पाई जाती है, जो किसी के शमशान की…
Bodoland : A malaise deeper than ‘communal’ issue
Last year, Assam saw two notorious events that killed more than 100 people. There were no statements from…
A Poem by a Woman
I poop. I have hair everywhere. Above my lips and below them. I have hair in places you…
Sunil Yadav vs BMC: Degrees of Safai Karamchari-A case of Big Boot
You have become too big for your boots now’ said the builder to me. This was probably the…
FTII: The Liberal-Sanghi farce
The FTII imbroglio is following the same imbecilic trajectory that most meritoriously ignorant liberals of this farce called…
Un-supering the hero: Reading status quo into fantasy
.. fantasies, in so much as they render real the surreal may also take flight from the real…
Awas Satyagraha of Mandala
Medha Patkar Around 75,000 homes of urban poor were demolished in 2004-05 in Mumbai, that situation is still…
Mumbai and Shanghai- A tale of two cities
Sanjana Krishnan Alumnus St. Xavier College, Mumbai 10 years ago, the Maharashtra Government promised to make Mumbai like…
Gadha Kahinke! Academic Modernity
No degree could eradicate caste, especially from the premier academic institutes of India, because they represent the same…
No Mangroves for Rich Men!
Slums are seen to be indispensable to any urban city. They are informal settlements by people who mostly…
Film Review: Qissa- The tale of lonely ghost
Qissa is a fable that centres on the human dimension of the drawing of borders. The film is…
Media carnival of death
An opportunity for the inquisitive, generally concerned upper/middle class mind to encounter an Ota Benga (a Congolese man…
Idea of a City: Mumbai, Baltimore
The peasants of the country and the government authorities of Mumbai wait for one thing, which has eventually…
Urban Uprising
Occupied, by the people for the people. The 55 acres of land reclaimed by 3200 households in Mankhurd…
Housing Rights of Urban Poor: Death of Rajeev Awas Yojana !
Press Release NAPM:Mumbai | 29th May: 60% of Mumbai residents are slum-dwellers while they actually only occupy 9%…
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