Kolkata’s Rally Revolution: The RG Kar Tragedy and the City’s Defiant Stand
“Kolkata has transformed into a city of rallies,” observed Mayurakshi Banerjee, a Mumbai-based cine worker who has called the city home for over two decades
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How a centuries-old story of a Bengali writer finds new echoes in a Spanish animator’s film
The animation film celebrates women through Sultana’s Dream, a story of Bengali writer-activist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
The legacy of Sandip Datta’s little magazine library
From giving up lunch and cigarettes to taking up part-time jobs, Datta’s obsession with little magazines led to a library, at Kolkata's College Street, that kept a part of Bengal’s history alive
Why, as a woman born into a Muslim family, I have reservations about the Uniform Civil Code
A party which thinks criminalising Muslim men is the primary strategy to address a complex socio-political issue justly raises concerns about the obsessive push for the UCC. But Muslim bodies have been silent too. Muslim women are now forced to choose between their rights and their community
'The Gods of Bengal's Villages': A Film Explores the Dying Art of Bohurupis
'If the young generation doesn’t come forward and revive the dying art, then a whole chapter of Bengal’s tradition will be wiped away.'
Indigenous communities, peasants, workers and students take to streets in Ecuador to protest austerity package.
The indigenous communities, diverse social movements, trade unions, peasants and students in Ecuador are vociferously opposing the Moreno government’s decision to cancel fuel subsidy and to impose IMF dictated austerity package. The violence seen on the streets of Quito, and elsewhere in Ecuador is
Sanction to Kill: How US Blockade Is Taking Venezuelans' Lives
The sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Venezuela is killing people in the country and risking lives of millions by depriving them of basic necessities.
While continuous and intensified sanctions against Venezuela by the United States aim to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s administration they are mostly hurting the country's population, of which at least 40,000 deaths have been recorded, according to a study released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in April 2019.
While continuous and intensified sanctions against Venezuela by the United States aim to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s administration they are mostly hurting the country's population, of which at least 40,000 deaths have been recorded, according to a study released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in April 2019.
71 Years of Nakba: Palestinians Continue to Suffer 'The Catastrophe'
71 Years of Nakba: Palestinians Continue to Suffer 'The Catastrophe'
“The memory of the Nakba … We salute it with our tears and suppress our pains and our sins. We salute it on the same day that Israelis commemorate the establishment of their state. Starting from the ashes of the Nakba to the battle to stay on our land in order to preserve our heritage and identity, and to confront a series of authoritarian and racist laws,” wrote Palestinians poet Dareen Tatour about Nakba.
Nakba, or catastro
“The memory of the Nakba … We salute it with our tears and suppress our pains and our sins. We salute it on the same day that Israelis commemorate the establishment of their state. Starting from the ashes of the Nakba to the battle to stay on our land in order to preserve our heritage and identity, and to confront a series of authoritarian and racist laws,” wrote Palestinians poet Dareen Tatour about Nakba.
Nakba, or catastro
Meet comrade Gulshan Majeed, the Naxalite movement’s bygone Kashmir campaigner
At a time when a certain comrade is creating a buzz in town, a textbook Marxist of yore recounts the Red movement’s fate in Kashmir where the who’s who of the Naxalite movement of the day would arrive to discuss roadmaps.
On a sunny day of October 1970, two young men in their early twenties came out of Anantnag Degree College. Ambling through the bustling town, the duo’s body language hid the fact that they were on police radar for being part of the Naxalite movement in Kashmir.
Crisscrossing
On a sunny day of October 1970, two young men in their early twenties came out of Anantnag Degree College. Ambling through the bustling town, the duo’s body language hid the fact that they were on police radar for being part of the Naxalite movement in Kashmir.
Crisscrossing
Over the dead natives: Necropolitics of the Indian state in Kashmir
“When the army surrounds us from everywhere, where would the people go?” asks a teary eyed shopkeeper from Bemina. Standing in a shabby shop which sells all sorts of essentials for daily life, Mohammad Amin recalled the horrid experience of the flood in 2014 which consumed almost every part of Srinagar and nearly destroyed the abode of this middle aged man.
With a long wooden stick he pointed out the level till which the water had risen in his shop.
“We have no other option but to walk the nar
With a long wooden stick he pointed out the level till which the water had risen in his shop.
“We have no other option but to walk the nar
