Last year, Assam saw two notorious events that killed more than 100 people. There were no statements from any organisation, but it was widely believed that the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit faction) was responsible – this belief might have largely been driven by media reports.
Month: July 2015
A Poem by a Woman
I poop. I have hair everywhere.
Above my lips and below them.
I have hair in places you always thought had none.
I have hair in places you want to visit, check out.
Sunil Yadav vs BMC: Degrees of Safai Karamchari-A case of Big Boot
You have become too big for your boots now’ said the builder to me. This was probably the first time in my life that I came to face the harsh realities of the caste system.
FTII: The Liberal-Sanghi farce
The FTII imbroglio is following the same imbecilic trajectory that most meritoriously ignorant liberals of this farce called India adopt. I say adopt, because following such a trajectory is an act of conscious willfulness.
Un-supering the hero: Reading status quo into fantasy
.. fantasies, in so much as they render real the surreal may also take flight from the real and render subversion onto our cinematic imagination. While Bahubali holds out a promise only for the former, it also restricts the cinemascape by the limitations that it sets out with – limitations of a social imagination that it has neither the will nor the intent to challenge.
Awas Satyagraha of Mandala
Medha Patkar Around 75,000 homes of urban poor were demolished in 2004-05 in Mumbai, that situation is still infront of our eyes. Not only food and kitchen were thrown on the road but children too. Forget about older and sick, people at that time used to sleep near the dirt…
Mumbai and Shanghai- A tale of two cities
Sanjana Krishnan Alumnus St. Xavier College, Mumbai 10 years ago, the Maharashtra Government promised to make Mumbai like Shanghai. From a slum ridden, poor city in 1990, by 2005, it had become the epitome for transformation. The Mumbai to Shanghai phrase caught on like fire, generating huge amounts of excitement…
Gadha Kahinke! Academic Modernity
No degree could eradicate caste, especially from the premier academic institutes of India, because they represent the same meritocracy structure, which pronounces one gadha. A gadha who is inefficient to work and apply brains on jobs which has no meaning, but is packed with layers of growth and advancement to…