“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…
Category: Editorial
Love, Academia and Prisons: Reality at the Gates
Jan 2017 Print Issue जिंदगी ख्वाब है, ख्वाब में, झूट है क्या, और भला सच है क्या सब सच है .. दिल ने हमसे जो कहा, हमने वैसा ही किया फिर कभी फुर्सत से सोचेंगे बुरा था या भला .. Life is dream, In dream, What is Lie? And even…
Ministry of Love – Individual, Institution, Society & State
“ तुम्हें दिल्लगी भूल जानी पड़ेगी ,
मोहब्बत की राहों में आके तो देखो |
Your seeming likingness of heart will be forgotten,
Come and look at the ways of love “
– Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Digital Spectacles: Tampon of Dams & Wars
“ek samay tha jab jahan highway banta tha wahan sehar banne lage, aur ab wo smay aa gaya hai, jahan optical fibre rahega wahan shehar banenge” | There was a time when city were built where roads passed, now today the time has come where, it will come up where the…
TISShhh : Modi ji will get angry – The Das of Capital
August Print Issue The stage was set to re-invent pedagogy. To control thought crime, to turn student into prisoners. Prisoners of authority. The intoxicated one. Intoxicated by fear of government’s surveillance of IB (Intelligence Bureau) in campus. For the first time in the history of TISS orientation, a session for…
Colors of Cage and Prom
For the first time, Tata Institute of Social Sciences campus, Mumbai, hosted a prom night. The event was organized by the student’s union on 23rd December 2015. The color scheme for the costumes was red & black.
Shared Silence : A need for Un-Confident Friends
January Print Issue On Ravish Kumar’s NDTV India in the prime time show after Bihar’s state election results were out, most senior reporters belonging to the upper castes were discussing the nukaad exit poll and how it could have gotten the results wrong. One of the hypothesis proposed was that…
And the Goenka award goes to Self
Jo tumne wo dekha suna, Sach tha Magar ye Kitna tha Sach ye kisko Pata… Ramnath Goenka award for best journalism in hindi went to Sudhir Chaudhry, editor of Zee news. He is the one who was accused in Jindal extortion case for 100 crores, caught on camera related to…
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…
Idea of a City: Mumbai, Baltimore
The peasants of the country and the government authorities of Mumbai wait for one thing, which has eventually arrived: Monsoon. On one hand, it is the hope of production and on the other it is about destruction and demolition. There has been history of demolition with monsoon in Mumbai. The authorities…
Hash with feminism: #Whyloiter #PussyRiot
Hashtags of feminist causes, are invoked by social media users worldwide in response to contemporary events and discussions. According to who is user and who is hashtagging it, they are taken up by newspapers, television, and other media outlets as stories of collective public opinion and, sometimes, further action.
Beard : Housing :: Media : State
I was almost declared a terrorist in centre of Delhi at Connought Place, on 25th January 2010 by a sitting Police men, because I had a hotel card from Ladakh (J&K), where I volunteered for flood relief. He saw medal hanging in my arse, as I passed by him and the excitement increased with me wearing beard and a card of J&K in my wallet.
Conversion of an Atheist : Somebody’s gonna get hurt
Is it possible to have a secular HICCUP ? I am a gaseous atheist, who eats, hiccups, burps many a time. It was just that day outside the university campus, when it came out ‘HARI OM’. I used to use slangs earlier to punctuate my gaseous energy, which gradually converted to a hindu chant. I…
Mediarchy : Female Journalist in Navi Mumbai
If you are not married and not pregnant you get good payment apart from dependence on number of words and article you contribute.
There is a big gender bias both in print and digital media. Maternity leave should be compulsory and should be extended on case to case basis. Atleast they should give leave without pay, or give some role to work from home. Most of the women in the profession are single. The male mentality is that children reduces the efficiency.
Sulabh Sexalaya: A way inward
The legalisation of prostitution is driven by demand, by the demography of our democracy.
The present powerful Indian government claims to reap from 3 Ds: DEMOCRACY, DEMOGRAPHY and DEMAND. Lets analyse it from angle of the recent debate on the legalisation of prostitution. Is the law a way forward ? Is it for millions involved in this livelihoods ? Is it only a legal problem?