Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata There is no denying that we live in a world which is completely immersed in an entity called the internet. From buying clothes, to visiting places, all of our personal choices…
Green Capitalism: A Feasible Future?
Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata “…You only speak of a green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular.” – Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old environmental activist, stated this while she addressed a meeting…
Citizenship Amendment Act: why it is problematic for India
Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Transcript: Hello everyone, I am Hritam Mukherjee and today, in this video, I will be discussing about the recently-passed Citizenship Amendment Bill. Until and unless you have been living under a…
Latin American countries struggle with Covid19 has yet to reach the peak
In Chile curfews and quarantines imposed as part of measures against the pandemic have largely calmed months of social protests against the conservative government of President Sebastian Pinera. The riots started in October 2019 in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro’s subway fare, the increased cost of living,…
Immigrant workers at more risk of Covid19, desperately demand right to travel
On Monday May 6 Middle East Eye reported Thousands of Egyptian workers in Kuwait are staging protests in migrant shelters, demanding to be repatriated back to Egypt. In a video posted on youtube page of Middle East Eye Kuwaitian Authorities appear to shell tear gas on protesters. On the same…
Illegal Israeli Colonists Uproot Palestinian Lands Near Hebron
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, squatting on Palestinian lands in direct violation of International Law, bulldozed a large area of Palestinian lands near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, to prepare for a new segregated road. Eyewitnesses said the colonists, accompanied by a large number of…
May 5, a day to honor missing indigenous women and girls
Red dresses hanging on birch trees to honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Image from Huffington Post. The missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) epidemic is an issue currently affecting Indigenous people in Canada and the United States, including the First Nations, Inuit, Métis (FNIM), and Native American…
Prof. Bino Paul: Indian economy needs Unions, with human dignity at its core, not Anglo-Saxon world economic models of Raghuram Rajan or Abhijit Banerjee.
This is an interview with Professor Bino Paul. He is Associate Dean at School of Research Methodology, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations , School of Management and Labour Studies in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Interviewer: Sir, I wanted to ask about the labor situation right now…
A large amount of farm products are being wasted everyday in Corona crisis. What else can be done?
Maryam Parvaz In a report published in 2016, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 815 million people of the 7.6 billion people in the world, or one in ten, are suffering from chronic undernourishment. In this report the number of children under 5 who are suffering from chronic…
Rahul Gandhi talks about infrastructure of hatred and Caste inequality in India while Raghuram Rajan presses on measured growth
Conversation between Rahul Gandhi (RG) and Raghuram Rajan (RR). Transcribed from the link of Rahul Gandhi facebook page https://www.facebook.com/rahulgandhi/videos/1145504059135540/ Transcribed by Charul Gupta The Sabha intern RG:Hello. RR: Good morning. How are you? RG:Nice to see you. RR:Likewise likewise. RG:You know, there’s there’s quite a lot of Questions in people’s…
City, Migrants and Dignity: Covid and M east ward of Mumbai- An interview with Amita Bhide of TISS
Professor Amita Bhide is Dean of School of Habitat Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She heads the project of Transforming M-east ward initiated by TISS in the year 2011. What are the different problems faced in the M-east ward and how fast the cases are increasing? In…
29 April webinar: States of Control – the dark side of pandemic politics by Transnational Institute
In our next Wednesday webinar at 4pm (CET) on 29 April, we will turn our lens on the state. In response to an unprecedented global health emergency, many states are rolling out measures from deploying armies and drones to control public space, to expanding digital control through facial recognition technology…
How people react to the news of political leaders getting corona?
When the news came about Boris Johnson tested positive with Corona virus a range of reactions of people happened in social media. Some people appeared to be very happy, making jokes around the situation. One or two week before testing positive, Boris Johnson made a statement saying that their is…
Cow urine cures corona virus, politicians claim. Why not Camel or Bat urine?
On April 23, national tv of Iran announced that a man was arrested over publishing a video on social media, claiming that camel urine cures coronavirus. This man who doesn’t have any medical training or any apologized on tv, to people because of abusing social media to deceive people. Just…
Turkey again, cuts water supply to 460,000 people in north-eastern Syria
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – On Saturday, Turkish-backed armed groups cut the flow from a reservoir that supplies water to areas in northeastern Syria’s Hasakah province that are controlled by the Kurdish-led local government, depriving some 460,000 people in the region of the essential resource. Alouk Water Station, which supplies water…
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins 4th Edition – Nat, Bediya and Bacchara women
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins 4th Edition – Nat, Bediya and Bacchara women speaking on the intersectionality of gender, stigmatisation, migration and caste Press Release Situation of Entertainment Workers It has been three weeks now since the government announced a lockdown across the country which has now been…
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins- Interstate Migrants in Erode and Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Voices from the Margins 3rd Edition – Interstate Migrants in Erode and Tirupur, Tamil Nadu Press Release-3 Situation of Interstate Garment Workers It has been three weeks now since the government announced a lockdown across the country which has now been extended to combat the COVID-19 pandemic….
Analysis of Corona Virus Relief package: Nomadic tribes in Purulia, West Bengal
Press Release Research team: Prasanta ( PBKSKS), Nirmita, Tarini, Vikas (Praxis) Analysis team: Dheeraj (Praxis) and Mayank (NAG-DNT) Advisor: Pradeep (PiC) Coronavirus Relief Package: Voices from the Margins Series Farmers and Migrant Workers from the Denotified, Semi-Nomadic and Nomadic Tribes in Purulia, West Bengal Partners in Change in collaboration with…
Four hundred Mizos are stranded across racist India, some fear to step out to avoid racist attack
Aizawl, Apr 8 (PTI) Mizoram”s lone Lok Sabha MP Lalrosanga on Wednesday said that 400 Mizos are stranded across the country due to the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of novel coronavirus and are facing severe hardships. The state government has so far identified 400 people who are stranded…
Saudi Arabia violated self announced ceasefire shortly after the decision
Afghan Islamic Press reported that Saudi Arabia violated unilateral ceasefire on Yemen hours after the announcement. at the same time Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis, of violating ceasefire. Houthis were a revolutionary group in Shia regions of Yemen who overturned Mansour Hadi in Jan 2015 over corruption which caused poverty and…
Vanakkam Virus, Hello Virus
Hello Virus I am one among the Human Afraid of losing my life to you, Masked face Lighting candles Burning stomach in starvation Germs spreading fast and faster You are enemy of the Humankind Traveling from cough to cough You landed all over the globe Closing dooring Shuttered factories Crippled…
Don’t travel to Balouchistan
Parandeh Mohajer I see that when it comes to Balouchistan, most people have a preception of a conservative region in south of Pakistan. But where is Balouchistan really? Balouchistan is name of a region expanding south east of Iran and south of Pakistan. This Iran-Pakistan border has caused many families…
Is social distancing a privilege?
It is impossible for workers in Iran, NYC and London to practice social distancing as seen in the below video. The idea of social distancing is confined to privilege people. And they are the one who are advocating it during the corona pandemic, as they have no idea of how…