The miracle of a seed is that this tiny little thing holds within itself the potential to recreate a whole individual plant or tree. And we humans, like many other beings, can come along and enjoy its pleasures, taste the fruit, smell the flower, sleep in the shade of the tree. It is the seed that holds promise of the things to come. In that way, it truly gives hope.
PinjraTod : Break the cage
The campaign, which began in early August, comprises of women from DU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ambedkar University, National Law University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. It grew out through social media and word-of-mouth , where women hostel and PG residents shared their bitter experiences with guards, wardens, principals and landlords.
LEGAL AID : Kawasi Hidme’s unheard story
Sushmita Verma Alumnus TISS, Mumbai […]
Nepal : Nation-State and Masculinity
The silence of Indian government in the Rohingya Muslim’s pilight in Mynmar, Tamil Genocide in Srilanka and atrocities aganist Chakma’s and Hindus in Bangladesh, exposes its illusive and short-sighted policy.
The rotten heart of Judiciary : No One Killed Dalits
Our memories of the Gujrat genocide in 2002 is still fresh. We cannot forget the bodies of small children which is lined up and arranged next to each other and I think there is a long history of the killing of children. If you look at the massacre in Kilvenmani that happened on christmas day 1968, 23 small children were killed. All of them were burnt to death.
Constitutionalism: Exception as norm
Reaffirming faith on Constitutionalism, this year, law day was re-christened as Constitution Day. Constitution is a document, which dictates the past, defines the present and shapes the future of the country. It’s the religion of the state.
The Political Decay : Transformation of human nature
What is decay and how political decay today is leading towards a catastrophe that is unimaginable for the present and coming generations. India holds the world’s largest electorate.
La Quimera : Squatted social centres, an open door to a new society
Their status may be illegal, but their intention is legitimate.
A big banner which hangs over the main door of a huge building announces that we have come to Squatted Social Centre La Quimera.
Landfill protests in Beirut
A widely used symbol of protests in the city of Beirut has been the altered flag of Lebanon with a trash bag taking place of the iconic cedar tree. Though, the citizens confess that it is generating negative publicity but they want to do anything and everything to raise awareness among fellow citizens and instil consciousness among the already paralysed polity of the country.
Mob Justice among communities in North East India
Mob justice refers to putting a person to death, eviction of a person and destruction of one’s property or undressing and beating suspected criminals without following the law. This denies the accused person a right to a fair hearing before a competent court and in many cases, a right to life.
It is a Man’s World
This song by James Brown, which was played for the first
time in 1966, never expires. It is certainly a man’s world, in
India, in the North and South, in every nation…it is a man’s world.
East European Pickers on the road
It was supposed to be the end of summer but it turned out to be the hottest autumn to be remembered. The last days of August I join my friends in Geneva to go to France, a bunch of other Eastern-Europeans, Polish, Checks, Hungarians, all of them seasonal farm-workers and restless vagabonds. Some of them had just managed to save-up their picking wages to buy mature and experienced second-hand camping vans: The Hotel Transporter and the Transit Paradise. With more folks on board they run the merrier. But they don’t run fast. No highways, no haste, only small distances on little roads and many halts. The Swiss turn back and stare: they never see such rickety things driving through their towns.
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