Slums are seen to be indispensable to any urban city. They are informal settlements by people who mostly migrate from rural to urban areas in search for jobs and a better source of livelihood.
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 a lingering view on the disruptive consequences of the change of borders and on the reciprocal side of identity.
Media carnival of death
An opportunity for the inquisitive, generally concerned upper/middle class mind to encounter an Ota Benga (a Congolese man displayed within the monkey house of an American human zoo in the early 20th century) or a Sarah Baartman (a South African Khoisan woman displayed in Western Europe around early 19th century for her “large buttocks”) from within the plush comforts of once own four cornered space one calls home?
Idea of a City: Mumbai, Baltimore
The peasants of the country […]