On 28th December, near Bandra […]
Cut.in Student Film Festival (2015)
Cut.In, the annual student’s film […]
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 […]
Where is the justice in mob justice?
Mob violence, also referred to as “Mob Justice” highlights a striking paradox – it approves the dispensation of justice by people, who usurp the authorities of constitutionally delegated bodies and apply a process they define as speedy.
Wasted : The Mars in Me
Should we have to live with the waste that we generate or should we be able to hide it somewhere? Have we not become nomads on a global scale, a society which can only be understood through the social psychology of a nomadic community?
Las Patronas, Seeds of Hope
Las Patronas are located in the village La Patrona, in the town of Amatlán de los Reyes (Veracruz). This image depicts the Virgin of Guadalupe who is a model for them.
#OccupyUGC : Access to higher education
Over the last few days the country has seen one of the largest student uprisings in its recent history. UGC’s decision to scrap the non – NET scholarship, as declared on 20th October 2015, after a UGC meeting dated October 7, 2015, served as a tipping point for the simmering unrest within this student community, which has long been struggling under the assault of rising tuition fees and cost of education, reckless semesterization program at undergraduate level and deteriorating quality of public higher education due to fund cuts and a plethora of market oriented/vocational courses taking advantage of job insecurity.
Saving Seeds
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 […]
Goenka Awards : Honor all without favors
Cut to November 23, 2015 and the Ramnath Goenka awards in the capital. Journalists like Siddiqui did not find even an honorary mention in a ceremony that attracted some of the biggest names in Indian politics and the arts. Though Siddiqui lost his life while on duty, a Delhi-based reporter won the award for reporting on the Kashmir floods.
Glass Steagall Act : Banks too big to fail, Bankers too big to jail
It divided the banks into two groups: the commercial banks, that take your deposits, ordinary people, supposed to give money to small businesses to help grow the economy; and then the investment banks, taking money from rich people, investing it in more speculative activities.
TPP: TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
Imagine a corporation suing a government, saying that they have right to kill and you cannot regulate my product. And if you do then you have to pay me not to kill you.
And the Goenka award goes to Self
Jo tumne wo dekha suna, […]
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.
Chhapparband De-notified Tribe Community
De-notified tribes are born as Humans but labeled as Criminals. India acquired independence in 1947 but still their freedom and rights are not granted to them. They are one of those who enriched Indian history, culture and social life. They are offenders without offences. Even offenders have rights in legal system of a democracy but they are restricted through legal and social institutions.
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.
‘Dear Mandela’ : A documentary for housing rights in South Africa screened at Mumbai Slum
Dear Mandela was screened at […]
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.
RTI : Another law to tame political energy of citizens
It has been ten years since RTI Act came into existence. No doubt it is one of the progressive legislations that brought out to public some of the most uncomfortable facts of the powerful. Equating RTI with democracy and other forms of claims are all far fetched.
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.
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