Constitutionalism: Exception as norm
Reaffirming faith on Constitutionalism, this year, law day was re-christened as Constitution Day. Constitution is a document, which…
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Murder of Yakub Shaikh : A worker in Toyota service centre, Cotton Green
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Students on the Road: #OccupyUGC #FeesMustFall #MillionStudentMarch
The issue of tuition fees and university education seems to go on and on, with new concerns or…
The Political Decay : Transformation of human nature
What is decay and how political decay today is leading towards a catastrophe that is unimaginable for the…
‘Dear Mandela’ : A documentary for housing rights in South Africa screened at Mumbai Slum
Dear Mandela was screened at Kannamwar Nagar, Vikhroli on 25th Oct in Mumbai, in solidarity with Ghar Bachao…
La Quimera : Squatted social centres, an open door to a new society
Their status may be illegal, but their intention is legitimate. A big banner which hangs over the main…
‘Housing for All’ one one hand and Evicting Slum Dwellers on other
सरकार का 2022 तक घर देने का वादा |When government promised ‘Housing or all by 2022 फिर क्यों…
RTI : Another law to tame political energy of citizens
It has been ten years since RTI Act came into existence. No doubt it is one of the…
Landfill protests in Beirut
A widely used symbol of protests in the city of Beirut has been the altered flag of Lebanon…
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…
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