Category Kractivism
March 8, 2022 KAMALA THIAGARAJAN A teen girl with a smart phone in Kolkata, India, photographed in April 2020 during the government-imposed lockdown. Schools pivoted to virtual learning, which shut out many students — especially girls in low-income communities —… Continue Reading →
On this International Women’s Day, we salute the courage of all people living in conflicts and war zones which, in so many parts of the world, are destroying lives. The brutality and devastation they bring about have profound and… Continue Reading →
Simon Hattenstone The last time Angela Davis was in Birmingham, Alabama, she caught up with childhood friends and her Sunday school teacher. While many of us would reminisce about favourite classes and first kisses, they discussed bombs. “We talked about… Continue Reading →
Swearing can be cathartic and an easy way to articulate frustrations, but it also holds a mirror to a society. Analysis of Cuss words across languages and classes in a patriarchal India and the ever-present subtext of misogyny By –… Continue Reading →
In the case of TV vs. Joint Director of School Education, the Madras High Court on 15th December 2021 held that authorities are not entitled to reveal specific information pertaining to sexual harassment complaints and proceedings to the alleged harasser… Continue Reading →
Counterview Desk The human rights organisation, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), which carried out fact finding of what it calls “intentional murder” of Anis Khan — a Muslim youth formerly with the CPI-M’s Students Federation of India, hailing Sarda Dakshin… Continue Reading →
by Vidyadhar Date — 06/03/2022 Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, unwittingly admitted today that the operation of Metro railway network in India is a failure. He was inaugurating short stretches of two Metro lines in Pune. He appealed to people to travel by the… Continue Reading →
Posted On March 7, 2022 Bimlesh Rajbhar was intrigued to find a group of blue-clad people entering her village and raising slogans for local BSP candidate Pankaj Kumar, who is contesting from the Mehnagar constituency of Azamgarh. “They are campaigning… Continue Reading →
By: Rohini Hensman If someone suggested that we could understand the Black Lives Matter struggle without some knowledge of the historical background of slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow and so on, we would find it unconvincing, to put it mildly. But many… Continue Reading →
Survey finds HIV widespread in the state, crime on the rise by- Rajeev Khanna Unlike the last occasion, the all important issue of substance abuse was majorly missing from the poll narrative of various political parties in Punjab. There were… Continue Reading →