A statement by the family members and friends of the BK-16 We, the friends and family members of those accused in the Bhima Koregaon Conspiracy case, are deeply pained and shaken to the core by the loss of Father Stan Swamy. This…
Prominent international figures urge release of human rights defenders in India We, the undersigned, as members and allies of academic communities around the world, strongly condemn the repression of academic freedom in India by the Indian state and its representatives, including the…
A letter sent on May 23, 2021 to poet Sudhir Dhawale, editor of the “Vidrohi”, who has been in prison in Taloja jail. Five revolutionaries including Sudhir were arrested today three years back, initiating the beginnings of BK-16 case, as we know…
Demand: Hany must get the best possible treatment and his family should be kept informed in a transparent & responsible manner. Hany Babu, an undertrial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, who has been in custody since July 2020 without trial has…
Statement by Kabir Kala Manch on the question of gender-based equality & social justice in movement spaces & organisations Women are “half the sky” and have the natural right to live as equals of men, and not be marginalised. Transpersons experience further…
Prof Hany Babu: Innocence IncarceratedOpen Appeal seeking Immediate Release Let the process not be the punishment any longer! Written by Jenny (wife), Farzana (daughter), Fathima (mother) and Harish & Ansari (brothers)|5 May 2021 The worst mistake is to persist with the mistake,…
The government needs to play a more proactive role in addressing the second wave of the pandemic Now at the second wave, cases have shot up exponentially, ICU beds and ventilators are not available to many and oxygen supply has dwindled to…
Written by Zeeshan Husain| April 30, 2021| New Delhi ‘The Chamar Modernity’ is in favor of Dalits, Muslims and Women while ‘High Caste Modernity’ is against these vulnerable groups. Retro-modern India (2010) is an exercise in anthropology of modernity and takes ethnography…
When the functional is political is personal: Witnessing the many battles of Geeli Pucchi’s Bharati Mandal Written by Drishadwati Bargi|April 27, 2021|Minnesota Yet, this very silence, loneliness, and the self’s recoil onto itself is represented by art. Art witnesses the collapse of…
