Andaz Apna Apna Is A Tribute To Silliness, And Therein Lies Its Genius
Rajkumar Santoshi’s Andaz Apna Apna (1994) turned twenty-five last year. I was scrolling through Twitter tributes to the film, enjoying the innumerable memes, reproductions of the highly quotable...
View ArticleGendering The Pandemic: Where Are The Womxn Policymakers?
Recently, I saw a Facebook post about doing something wonderful and being successful during the time we practice social distancing. Similar posts cropped up in Twitter too which said that Shakespeare...
View ArticleEmpathy In The Time Of Corona, Or The Lack Of It?
I was on a call with a distant relative a couple of days back, discussing all and sundry, when the conversation eventually, and obviously glided to the morbidity of current times. Except, morbidity for...
View ArticleKoovalapuram’s Curious Guesthouse
By Kavitha Muralidharan/PARI “Oh, she’s here just to enquire about our ‘guesthouse’,” Rani tells Lavanya, her ‘roommate’ there. Both seem relieved to know the purpose of our visit. Panic had swept the...
View ArticleGive The Women In Beed The Right To Bleed And Be
I leave the lush hills on which my campus resides and step down to the valleys of Kolvan and Mulshi. Living in rural Maharashtra, I see the sugarcane crop held in high regard. From the little-too-sweet...
View ArticleOpinion: Rajiv Gandhi Is A Young Dream That Is Shining Brighter Than Ever
Rajiv Gandhi was an outsider in politics, his political life, accidental. An accident born out of a marriage between sheer social privilege and shattering personal trauma. As Sanjay Gandhi, his younger...
View ArticleIn This Pandemic Test, The Govt’s ‘Priorities’ Have Failed The Most Marginalised
If you note down some of the greatest stories around the world—fictional or not—you will notice a pattern. Most antagonists lost the game because their priorities messed up somewhere in the process....
View ArticleThe Pandemic Might Change Mental Health Demographics, And We Need To Take...
Quarantine period is depriving people of the things that they need to stay well, from peer support groups to the routine of work and social engagements.” – Danielle Hamm According to the Lancet...
View ArticleI Spoke To 2 Aspiring Doctors On How Covid-19 Is Making Them Question Their...
The great Greek physician Hippocrates once quoted, “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. ” Doctors, no doubt, put their sweat and blood in treating the patients. The...
View ArticleLawSikho’s ‘Dating Webinar’ Was One Hour Laden With Misogyny, Sexism And...
The incident of Bois Locker Room is being discussed actively in various social circles. While we know that episodes like this are only the tip of the iceberg that is rape culture, what now has to be...
View ArticleMental Health Pandemic: “Speak Up On Mental Health, Stigmatise Not!”
In India, since times immemorial, we have always believed in the principle of holistic well-being – physical, mental and even spiritual. Among our civilisational claims to fame in the times of yore are...
View ArticleUS History Shows That George Floyd’s Murder Isn’t An Exception
Innocent brothers and sisters, it’s time to wake up, wake up, wake up Brothers and sisters, it’s time to say something, do something, make ’em Mmm I wonder, how many Blacks lives, how many Black lives...
View ArticleFrontline Workers Speak: “Self-sufficiency Is A Myth”
March 22, 2020, saw the first day of lockdown in India, i.e. the Janata Curfew, an initiative to tackle the grave situation that had already brought some powerful nations of the world on their knees....
View Articleजब भूख से हो रही थी देश में मौतें तो गोदामों में सड़ रहे थे 65 लाख टन अनाज
यह वो समय है जिसमें सबसे ज़्यादा ग़रीब तबका अपनी ज़िंदगी के सबसे बुरे दौर से गुज़र रहे हैं। प्रकृति उनके विलोम में है ही दुनिया भी उनके विरोध में आ गई है। कोरोना संक्रमण के बीच जारी लॉकडाउन के दौरान गरीबों...
View ArticleManual Scavenging: As We Fight A ‘Virus Transmission’, Can We Prevent Being...
How do we define a social issue or how does any issue get associated with a social tag? There are many parameters which seek to explicate and contextualize the social frame of reference. For example,...
View ArticleTowards A Class Sensitive Feminism: How The Social Insignificance Of Lower...
The widely reported incident of a white woman making a call to the police in response to a black birdwatcher asking her to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park has emerged as the latest flashpoint...
View ArticleMan Vs The Wild Life: Why Humans Need To Rethink This Enmity For Survival
Recently, there was a huge public outcry after the death of a pregnant elephant. Motivated by this, this article explores the increasing dimensions of man-animal enmity and the resultant loss of...
View ArticleOn Anti-Black Racism, Institutionalised Violence, Impunity, And Accountability
People from the northeast are seen as ‘aliens’ regardless, and hence the xenophobia. Representational image. When nearly 300 nurses from Manipur, who had been working at various Kolkata hospitals,...
View ArticleChild Labour Exists In India Because Of Our Collective Apathy
Trigger Warning: This article talks about child sexual abuse. If you have watched Harry Potter, I am sure you must have felt very bad after looking at Harry Potter’s condition at his relative’s home. I...
View Article“The Silence Over Caste-based Atrocities Only Reflects Our Values As A Society”
Gandhiji, I have no homeland. No untouchable worth the name will be proud of this land.” This is a very famous reply Dr Ambedkar gave when he met Gandhi for the first time in 1931. Can we say that this...
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