“What will you do with the information”, she looked at us intently and asked, “will you help us?” I didn’t have an answer to Lakshmi’s question. Honestly, even I wasn’t sure about what I was going to do with the information, what I was certain about and stumbled to accept was that I was not going to be of any help to them.
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.
Gadha Kahinke! Academic Modernity
No degree could eradicate caste, […]
Idea of a City: Mumbai, Baltimore
The peasants of the country […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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?
Searching for sugarman- the armstrong of Maharashtra
The sugar scam in Maharshtra […]
Tuberculosis in M Ward, Mumbai: Between access and advocacy
Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide pandemic and the leading cause of death among HIV-infected people, says World Health Organization (WHO). Currently India’s DOTS (directly observed treatment-short course) programme is the largest and fastest expanding initiative in the world, in terms of patients initiated on treatment; and the second largest, in terms of population coverage.
RED pill or Blue ! for NEO COLD WAR
On meeting Vladimir Putin, Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, said: “Well, I guess I´ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine.” David Cameron and Barack Obama personally delivered similar messages, in slightly less hostile terms.
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.
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.
Banks who sold their Ferrari
According to P Sainath, the revenue foregone in 2013-14 budget can fund three decades of Rural Job Scheme, PDS for four and half years which is 5.32 lakh crore. And when he calculates since 2005-06 it is 36.5 lakh crore which is 36.5 trillion., which can fund MGNREGA for 105 years, PDS for 31 years.
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