A few decades back we could count women in Media on our fingertips. The number has been increasing over the time and has helped a lot of women to come forward and represent many other women in our society. T.V, Radio, Video games, Social media, Newspapers, or magazines, be it…
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Genocide against Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang
A cultural genocide is under place in China, against the Uyghur muslims, who are being detained in camps.
Migration Problem in Bihar and Punjab.
By Supriya Migration is a way to shift from one place to another for living and for work. Migration of people from their home to another city / state / country is called migration. It happens due to job, shelter and some other reasons. Migration is not a new word…
A Comparative Study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar
By Anjali Mishra “Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much, recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man/woman whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him/her. Will it lead…
The Link Between Gender, Crimes and Education
By Sakshi Gupta Education is the origin of a progressive society. It is something that without which a human remains only a living being or an animal. Education is considered to be important as it’s a crucial part of life. it is what leads to the success of a being,…
Increasing Crime rate against women
By Supriya Jha Circumstances such as domestic violence, verbal abuse, emotional trauma and physical abuse have never been strange to women around the world. But this time in India, the increase in domestic violence cases broke the 10-year record. According to the article published by ‘The Hindu’ on 22 June,…
Food Scarcity During Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid 19 Pandemic has taken a toll not only on the world’s best healthcare system, but it has also largely impacted the livelihood of millions across the world. In India, hunger has been an issue for multiple decades, being ignored by many previous governments on account of not being…
Phoolan Devi- The Devi & Demons, Water & Power – Part 1
“I thought many times to commit suicide, but if I die, so does the thousands of girls every day. The effigy of Ravana who picked up a woman still burns, even today, every year. Many such Ravanas tortured me, I have given them my answer. “ – Phoolan Devi The…
Manipur Filmmaker: Haobam Pawan Kumar
Manish JaisalAssistant Professor at Mandasaur University The director, screenwriter, producer Haobam Pavan Kumar, a resident of Imphal, Manipur, has brought together an aspect of the history of Indian cinema that a film audience and the film’s greats will never forget. Pawan, who was a disciple of Manipuri cinema’s Areebam Sharma,…
Muniswari, an upcoming lawyer from Kuravar community, a denotified nomadic tribe in Madurai, Tamilnadu
This is transcription of the phone interview by Sankar Ganesh. Sankar Ganesh is an intern with The Sabha, from Kovilpatti and student of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (2018 – 2021) Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur. (Conversation on phone among Abhishek Kumar Tiwari, Sankar Ganesh and Munieswari. Sankar Ganesh is…
Green Capitalism: A Feasible Future?
Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata “…You only speak of a green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular.” – Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old environmental activist, stated this while she addressed a meeting…
Citizenship Amendment Act: why it is problematic for India
Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Transcript: Hello everyone, I am Hritam Mukherjee and today, in this video, I will be discussing about the recently-passed Citizenship Amendment Bill. Until and unless you have been living under a…
Latin American countries struggle with Covid19 has yet to reach the peak
In Chile curfews and quarantines imposed as part of measures against the pandemic have largely calmed months of social protests against the conservative government of President Sebastian Pinera. The riots started in October 2019 in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro’s subway fare, the increased cost of living,…
Immigrant workers at more risk of Covid19, desperately demand right to travel
On Monday May 6 Middle East Eye reported Thousands of Egyptian workers in Kuwait are staging protests in migrant shelters, demanding to be repatriated back to Egypt. In a video posted on youtube page of Middle East Eye Kuwaitian Authorities appear to shell tear gas on protesters. On the same…
Illegal Israeli Colonists Uproot Palestinian Lands Near Hebron
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, squatting on Palestinian lands in direct violation of International Law, bulldozed a large area of Palestinian lands near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, to prepare for a new segregated road. Eyewitnesses said the colonists, accompanied by a large number of…
May 5, a day to honor missing indigenous women and girls
Red dresses hanging on birch trees to honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Image from Huffington Post. The missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) epidemic is an issue currently affecting Indigenous people in Canada and the United States, including the First Nations, Inuit, Métis (FNIM), and Native American…
Prof. Bino Paul: Indian economy needs Unions, with human dignity at its core, not Anglo-Saxon world economic models of Raghuram Rajan or Abhijit Banerjee.
This is an interview with Professor Bino Paul. He is Associate Dean at School of Research Methodology, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations , School of Management and Labour Studies in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Interviewer: Sir, I wanted to ask about the labor situation right now…
A large amount of farm products are being wasted everyday in Corona crisis. What else can be done?
Maryam Parvaz In a report published in 2016, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 815 million people of the 7.6 billion people in the world, or one in ten, are suffering from chronic undernourishment. In this report the number of children under 5 who are suffering from chronic…
Rahul Gandhi talks about infrastructure of hatred and Caste inequality in India while Raghuram Rajan presses on measured growth
Conversation between Rahul Gandhi (RG) and Raghuram Rajan (RR). Transcribed from the link of Rahul Gandhi facebook page https://www.facebook.com/rahulgandhi/videos/1145504059135540/ Transcribed by Charul Gupta The Sabha intern RG:Hello. RR: Good morning. How are you? RG:Nice to see you. RR:Likewise likewise. RG:You know, there’s there’s quite a lot of Questions in people’s…
City, Migrants and Dignity: Covid and M east ward of Mumbai- An interview with Amita Bhide of TISS
Professor Amita Bhide is Dean of School of Habitat Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She heads the project of Transforming M-east ward initiated by TISS in the year 2011. What are the different problems faced in the M-east ward and how fast the cases are increasing? In…
29 April webinar: States of Control – the dark side of pandemic politics by Transnational Institute
In our next Wednesday webinar at 4pm (CET) on 29 April, we will turn our lens on the state. In response to an unprecedented global health emergency, many states are rolling out measures from deploying armies and drones to control public space, to expanding digital control through facial recognition technology…
How people react to the news of political leaders getting corona?
When the news came about Boris Johnson tested positive with Corona virus a range of reactions of people happened in social media. Some people appeared to be very happy, making jokes around the situation. One or two week before testing positive, Boris Johnson made a statement saying that their is…
Cow urine cures corona virus, politicians claim. Why not Camel or Bat urine?
On April 23, national tv of Iran announced that a man was arrested over publishing a video on social media, claiming that camel urine cures coronavirus. This man who doesn’t have any medical training or any apologized on tv, to people because of abusing social media to deceive people. Just…
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins 4th Edition – Nat, Bediya and Bacchara women
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins 4th Edition – Nat, Bediya and Bacchara women speaking on the intersectionality of gender, stigmatisation, migration and caste Press Release Situation of Entertainment Workers It has been three weeks now since the government announced a lockdown across the country which has now been…
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins- Interstate Migrants in Erode and Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins 3rd Edition – Interstate Migrants in Erode and Tirupur, Tamil Nadu Press Release-3 Situation of Interstate Garment Workers It has been three weeks now since the government announced a lockdown across the country which has now been extended to combat the COVID-19 pandemic….