In collaboration with maraa, The Polis Project launched Profiles of Dissent — a new series centered on remarkable voices of dissent and courage in India and their personal and political histories, as a way to reclaim our public spaces. These are prominent writers,…
On January 30, several Dalit and progressive organisations, academics and intellectuals will come together in Pune to raise their voices against neo Peshwai, fascist, Brahmanical and patriarchal forces By Elgar Parishad|January 16, 2021 The purpose behind organising the Elgar Parishad this year…
I wish I knew the just way to countering the violence of the archive. When I cut into the onion’s history, should I learn from my father’s generation and look away swiftly, “pare away”, discard my tears, deny them a being? Or,…
Appeal: I am Somnath Waghmare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath_Waghmare) , a documentary filmmaker and a Ph.D scholar at TISS Mumbai. I have also worked as a contract employee at FTII, Pune. I am associated with the progressive social movement in Maharashtra. My documentary films explore…
Eggs have been denied to children as part of the mid day meals in schools for several years. Described as the ‘menstrual discharge’ of the hen, eggs are labelled as ‘sinful’, ‘violent’, and agitating the senses, with egg eaters deserving to be…
The mistress of the house gets up before dawn, arranges portions of food prepared for Gasi Parab on a banana leaf and takes it to the bank of the ponds or to the tomb of the ancestors and offers it to a…
Via Sabrang India| October 24, 2020 International Solidarity for Academic Freedom (InSAF India) and the Global Diaspora Alliance express solidarity, demand release of academics, artists, writers, activists jailed under UAPASabrangindia24 Oct 2020 “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base…
Promoting the idea of religious harmony over religious freedom allows the Hindutva forces to realise their dream of a monolith Hindu society. Trump’s endorsement of Modi’s ideas only adds to it Written by Pallikonda Manikanta| Hyderabad |November 11, 2020 Namaste Trump –…
Written by Abhijeet Suryawanshi|Nagpur|November 10, 2021 Caste within itself functions as a society where everything right from an attire the group uses to the dialect they speak is distinct. Yes, dialect too. The caste group in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra named Powar…
by Aatika Singh| November 8, 2020 I am plenty sure one must have heard of aloe-vera galore these days. It’s the one solution for all problems that every industry is peddling to the customer with much gusto. No doubt Cleopatra used it…
