By Rahul Vaidya
It certainly reminds one of Orwellian dystopia; however, its focus remains limited. Totalitarianism is one logical symptom of the project of modernity itself. Barnes doesn’t try to explore this. His music thus gets lost in the noise of the times that we live in.
By Kouser Fathima
One can imagine the impact this hit movie had on his fans. Many guys must have come out of the movie hall thinking it is not only okay to stalk a girl but that stalking was heroic, something which can be done without any remorse or regret. That it’s okay to follow a girl, trying to impress her against her wish, until she eventually reciprocates the feeling.
By Ahmad Ibrahim
The Burmese armed forces are those who let the Rohingyans be attacked in the Rakhine province of Myanmar, destroying their settlements, persecuting their women and children, displacing millions of people by way of ethnic cleansing. They are dead for no reason, except that they were peaceful Muslims.
By Namrata Pathak
This city is a firm orb in the sky,
it floats in your head.
It is a lie that stretches
from this corner to that corner,
its face a scowl.
By Ananya S. Guha
We can see how the politico actor survived with aplomb in South India. Acting was and is a passion there. And most of the politicians act and very well at that. The image of the actor blended very well with the politician. Both were hero worshipped in two contexts: in life and on celluloid.
By Shahid Ashraf
Even though the current situation in Kashmir is undergoing ‘normalcy’, the scars on the body of people hold witness to the state-led barbarity on a people who are caught between the territorial claims of two nuclear armed countries.
By Arunoday Majumder
It requires imagination to suggest that the upper caste hold on the politics of the state has broken despite contrary evidence in the surnames of top ministers and party leaders.
By Ameen Hussain Rather
It is indeed a travesty and a sad tale that as human rights have advanced all over the world, in Kashmir, these have regressed. But, alas, the world is silent to this condition, despite the mute testimony of the dead, disappeared, blinded, tortured, raped, and illegally detained.
By Sudhamshu Mitra
A successful intervention is impossible without synthesizing the views of the oppressed or the underprivileged, who are the stakeholders in the particular sector. The present culture delimits the oppressed because they are treated purely as objects, instead of liberating and empowering them by treating them as subjects who have the capability to transform their realities.
By Sanhita Chatterjee
‘Dear Zindagi’ has set a precedent and will hopefully be followed by many such pursuits in order to dent the “narrow domestic” walls built by the patriarchs. Hopefully, someday a woman’s voice won’t sound as odd as it does today.
By Faakirah Irfan
The women who are raped in war zones
Aren’t martyrs,
There is no honor in rape.
By William Rowlandson
As a historical figure, Fidel Castro presents some juicy conundrums: justice and injustice, revolution and state power, citizens’ rights and state authority, artistic freedom and restriction, high literacy rates and censorship, communist economics and private enterprise, socialism and tourism.
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