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%…
Hash with feminism: #Whyloiter #PussyRiot
Hashtags of feminist causes, are invoked by social media users worldwide in response to contemporary events and discussions.…
It is a Man’s World
This song by James Brown, which was played for the first time in 1966, never expires. It is…
Mumbai (Mandala) Establishment blues : 55 acres of Land on the way for reclaimation by slum dwellers
Today at 6 a.m thousands of slum dwellers of Mandala started Avaas Satygraha to reclaim their land. The…
No political satire please, We are Italian
Italian ex Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of suffering a sense-of-humour failure after his media group…
De-growing for survival
Quick. Fast. Effective. These are becoming core values in the fast-paced race to fulfill necessities of people all…
Mumbai : Development Plan & Disability in M-ward
The Development plan (2014-2034) for Mumbai is all set to roll and the government has ensured full participation…
Point of No return
Lory Gaur “He laughed. He looked at me and laughed. I bled and he just laughed.” Her face…
Woman workers in Afganistan
Source: IRIN news The Norwegian Refugee Council’s first ever female only intervention team, which the NGO believes is…
Cow Bias : This is all drama
Kasaiwada, also known as Qureshi Nagar in Kurla east is home to a large number of Khateek community,…
Beef Ban : What to preserve Animal or Work ?
The amendment of Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act , 1976 came in for giving effect to the policy of…
Holy Desi Cow and A2 Milk
A few years back Brazil has become the biggest exporters of Indian breeds of cows, not many could…
Murder of Dalits at Jawakhede (Khalsa)
by shyam.panther@gmail.com, harshalipotdar@gmail.com Preliminary fact finding report on the inhuman murders of Dalits on 20 October 2014 at…
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