A Revolution in Making – Kurdistan & its Women
While Indian media has not bothered to cover it, the western media is only busy in glamourising the…
Social Movement
#OccupyUGC: Jaari Hai, Jaari rahega!
The students agitating against the scraping of Non net fellowships, fund cuts, increased privatization of higher education assembled…
Cinema of Resistance, Mumbai Chapter begins
Additti Munshi Subsequent to the advent of the New Economic Policy adopted in 1990s, the government of India…
RAMASHANKAR YADAV ‘VIDROHI’
Amit Saurabh M.Phil Student in IIT Bombay Do you know of any person around you, who moves around…
Quotes from the documentary: ‘Mein Tumhara Kavi Hoon’
“When it’s a poem you want to record then we must begin with poetry. What is poetry? It’s…
Dharavi : Rally against Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder attacked by R.S.S
A rally organised by residents of Dharavi against Rohith Vemula's institutional murder were allegedly attacked by R.S.S in…
Ambujwadi marches for water: BMC arrogance causes traffic jam
"Matka Lekar Aaye Hain, Paani Lekar Jayenge" People of Ambujwadi, a slum in Malad, Mumbai marched to P…
#OccupyUGC : Access to higher education
Over the last few days the country has seen one of the largest student uprisings in its recent…
PinjraTod : Break the cage
The campaign, which began in early August, comprises of women from DU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ambedkar University, National…
The rotten heart of Judiciary : No One Killed Dalits
Our memories of the Gujrat genocide in 2002 is still fresh. We cannot forget the bodies of small…
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…
‘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…
Landfill protests in Beirut
A widely used symbol of protests in the city of Beirut has been the altered flag of Lebanon…
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…
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…
A Poem by a Woman
I poop. I have hair everywhere. Above my lips and below them. I have hair in places you…
FTII: The Liberal-Sanghi farce
The FTII imbroglio is following the same imbecilic trajectory that most meritoriously ignorant liberals of this farce called…
No Mangroves for Rich Men!
Slums are seen to be indispensable to any urban city. They are informal settlements by people who mostly…
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…
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