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…
Women’s Point of View
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…
‘Retro-Modern India’ by Manuela Ciotti- A review essay
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…
On the movement towards establishing Dalit literature in Bengal
Transcript of an interview with Kalyani Thakur Charal | 5th April, 2021 Infact, after Chuni Kotla incident which, occurred in Bengal in 1992 before Rohith Vemula’s incident. The Bangla Dalit Sahitya Organization had been started and they did a lot of work…
Setting tones with a Maha Mazdoor Kisan Rally at Barnala with 2.5 Lakh people at Anaj Mandi.
Written by D. Jennifer | New Delhi| February 23rd, 2020 Difficulties in staying away from wage work beyond a day and inability to afford expenses to reach protest-sites at Delhi borders, are good reasons for the working class to meet at Barnala,…
Singhu: The Unwritten
One such library is run by the Ambedkar Students Association of Punjab University. Ambedkar too is a noticeable presence on posters at the site, along with heroes from Sikh history and peasant leaders. While the protest opposes the farm laws themselves, it…