Mayank and Arpita Introduction Chhara tribe was notified under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 as “born criminals”. In 1952, the tribe was denotified, but they still carry the stigma of criminality. Chhara tribe is also known as Kanjarbhat (Maharashtra) and Kanjar (Rajasthan). In Gujarat, the members of tribe reside in…
Category: Movie Reviews
Cinema of Resistance, Mumbai Chapter begins
Additti Munshi Subsequent to the advent of the New Economic Policy adopted in 1990s, the government of India has portrayed industrialisation as the only weapon to overcome poverty in the country. A similar stance has been used for the resource rich Odisha, where the state government has been involved in the process of…
Cut.in Student Film Festival (2015)
Cut.In, the annual student’s film festival (2015) of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, School of Media and Cultural Studies (SMCS) celebrated its 8th year, with exuberance and zest. Young and fresh in its outlook, this year the festival received close to 119 entries, from students of diploma, graduate and…
‘Dear Mandela’ : A documentary for housing rights in South Africa screened at Mumbai Slum
Dear Mandela was screened at Kannamwar Nagar, Vikhroli on 25th Oct in Mumbai, in solidarity with Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, a housing right movement in the metropolitan. The screening was to bring together struggle of slum dwellers, urban poor from different geography. Around two hundred people were present during…
IMAGINING AIDS on the screen
There are diseases and then, there is AIDS. It is difficult to think of any other disease which takes as much a psychological and social toll on its victim as a physical one.