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Map of alternatives in India invites people to connect and contribute
Vikalp Sangam Map The Vikalp Sangam Map provides readers, researchers, students and practitioners with a user-friendly tool to navigate through stories, case studies, films and perspectives on numerous ongoing alternative initiatives in India. These ini...
On 15 August, Indian feminists Ask, ‘Are We Really Independent?’
‘Kya Hum Sachh Mein Azaad Hai?’ 15 Aug, 2020: On this, the 74th Independence Day of India, we are deeply troubled at the state of ‘independence’ in the nation. As feminists committed to democratic values, we ask, ‘where is the real independence,...
Dalit activists asks Manu statue to be removed from Rajasthan HC
[pt_br]A letter by well-known Dalit rights leader Macwan Macwan, signed by over 600 concerned citizens, including scholars, writers, teachers, activists and journalists, has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s intervention to remove the statue of Man...
Indians create awareness with #DalitLivesMatter
The hashtag was first used in November 2014, shortly after #BlackLivesMatter started trending. But since May 2020 #DalitLivesMatter had more engagement than the entirety of 2019 (engagement measured as the number of posts with 10 or more replies, likes and...
A indiana de 15 anos que pedalou 1.200 km levando o pai na quarentena
Jyoti Kumari Paswan, de 15 anos, surpreendeu a Índia ao pedalar cerca de 1.200 km em oito dias, levando o pai ferido, em corrida desesperada para alcançar a sua aldeia durante a pandemia. Ela e o pai, Mohan, estavam na cidade de Sikandarpur, em Haryan...
A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
Shalmali Guttal - It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body of small farmers and labourers on earth fighting to save their livelihoods. The agrarian crisis is no longer just a measure of loss of land. No...
This is environmenthal racism
Backstory: Why Journalism Should Go Down the Drain
Pamela Philipose, The Wire Take, by way of example, the enormous media attention paid to the flagship project of the present government, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Two basic flaws are in evidence. First, it has been completely overtaken by the persona ...