.. fantasies, in so much as they render real the surreal may also take flight from the real and render subversion onto our cinematic imagination. While Bahubali holds out a promise only for the former, it also restricts the cinemascape by the limitations that it sets out with – limitations of a social imagination that it has neither the will nor the intent to challenge.
Gadha Kahinke! Academic Modernity
No degree could eradicate caste, […]
No Mangroves for Rich Men!
Slums are seen to be indispensable to any urban city. They are informal settlements by people who mostly migrate from rural to urban areas in search for jobs and a better source of livelihood.
Film Review: Qissa- The tale of lonely ghost
Qissa is a fable that centres on the human dimension of the drawing of borders. The film is a lingering view on the disruptive consequences of the change of borders and on the reciprocal side of identity.
Media carnival of death
An opportunity for the inquisitive, generally concerned upper/middle class mind to encounter an Ota Benga (a Congolese man displayed within the monkey house of an American human zoo in the early 20th century) or a Sarah Baartman (a South African Khoisan woman displayed in Western Europe around early 19th century for her “large buttocks”) from within the plush comforts of once own four cornered space one calls home?
Idea of a City: Mumbai, Baltimore
The peasants of the country […]
Housing Rights of Urban Poor: Death of Rajeev Awas Yojana !
Press Release NAPM:Mumbai | 29th […]
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.
Mumbai (Mandala) Establishment blues : 55 acres of Land on the way for reclaimation by slum dwellers
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No political satire please, We are Italian
Italian ex Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of suffering a sense-of-humour failure after his media group sued a comedian for spreading ‘lies and insinuations’.
De-growing for survival
Quick. Fast. Effective. These are becoming core values in the fast-paced race to fulfill necessities of people all around the planet to reach the zenith of wellbeing. But these future plans are crumbling in many ways, what is the hope for resistance?
Mumbai : Development Plan & Disability in M-ward
The Development plan (2014-2034) for Mumbai is all set to roll and the government has ensured full participation of every citizen of this state. Recent data shows that 10% of the Mumbai population experiences some form of disability or impairment and their participation in development plan is also a necessary factor to be taken into account.
Cow Bias : This is all drama
Kasaiwada, also known as Qureshi Nagar in Kurla east is home to a large number of Khateek community, most of who work in the slaughterhouses in Mumbai. Since the 2nd of March, with the President’s assent to a 20 year old Bill preventing the slaughter of bulls and bullocks in addition to the already existing ban on cow slaughter, thousands of slaughterhouse workers have been left without any work.
Beef Ban : What to preserve Animal or Work ?
The amendment of Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act , 1976 came in for giving effect to the policy of the State towards securing the principles specified in article 48 of the Constitution of India.
Holy Desi Cow and A2 Milk
A few years back Brazil has become the biggest exporters of Indian breeds of cows, not many could believe that the cows that roam the streets in our country feeding on all kinds of garbage could be the prized possession of farmers far away in Brazil.
Murder of Dalits at Jawakhede (Khalsa)
by shyam.panther@gmail.com, harshalipotdar@gmail.com Preliminary fact […]
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 […]
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