Protests & movements
Eyezine is officially shutting down today, almost five years since it began in the winter of 2013. We started in a small room in Calcutta, with the willingness to pursue truth-telling of hyperlocal issues being…
BY MANISHA GANGULY On the 21st of January, the day after Donald Trump swore in as President of the United States, women all over the world in 70 countries joined…
BY MANISHA GANGULY On November 13, Khurram Parvez, Kashmiri human rights defender and Chairperson of Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) was awarded the 2016 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award for his…
"More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 110 but local activists say the number is much higher,…
Anti-racism protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London clash with 3 right-wing disrupters from EDL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iBVL1Rjuxk&feature=youtu.b BY MANISHA GANGULY| Thursday 9th November 2016 More than two hundred anti-racism protesters gathered…
On November 4, Samnath Baghel was killed by armed Naxals in his home in Nama village under the Sukma district in Bastar. On November 5, an FIR was DU Professor…
The International Crisis Group has published a report entitled: Turkey’s PKK Conflict Veers onto a More Violent Path. In the report, published on 10 Nov and written by Berkay Mandiraci, the group…
Grow Heathrow remains last man standing as UK government gives green-light for third runway project. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with poor government…
On the evening of 8th November 2016, Indian PM Narendra Modi declared that from midnight onwards, denominations of Rs. 500 and 1000 would cease to be legal tender, as a measure to curb…
The Internal Complaints Committee of Jadavpur University (JU) in its report against Ekalavya Chaudhuri, the student accused of sexual harassment, recommended that the offender should receive pastoral treatment or counseling. The…
Twenty seven protesters were arrested yesterday while blockading construction of a pipeline over sacred native burial ground. The arrests by riot police on the eve of Indigenous People’s Day, were…
On the basis of an administrative order by the District Magistrate Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir Police yesterday stopped the publication of Kashmir Reader, a popular English daily newspaper published…
Delhi Action Committee released the following statement against the recent police killings in Kaziranga, Assam, and calls for a protest gathering at Assam Bhawan, Sardar Patel Marg, New Delhi, on…
Saroda, September 21 - The activism of Jignesh Mevani and the members of the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikaar Manch (RDAM), along with the residents of Saroda Village, bore fruit when the mapping…
Kashmir, September 20-- Late this evening, Principal District and Sessions Judge, Srinagar, set aside the detention order of the Executive Magistrate on Khurram Parvez based on multiple police illegalities. No…
Adding to the spate of brutalities against Dalits across the country, a Dalit youth named Satish More from Nariyara Village (Pamgarh) was tortured to death at the Malmula police station…
In an open letter, Mr Shiv Inder Singh, an independent overseas journalist from Punjab, claims that he lost his job owing to his criticism of PM Modi’s government. Dear Sir/…
6 September 2016 — Over the last week – August 29 to 5 September, of uninterrupted curfew in Kashmir, the government’s unbridled use of force on peaceful public meetings/rallies, which…
Thirty-eight activists were arrested in two states on 31 August 2016 (Wednesday) as protests against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) continue. While construction on one section of the pipeline…
#FeministReads by FemPositive #FeministReads is a flagship project started by FemPositive in April 2015 with the aim to promote and archive Indian feminist literature and marginalized narratives through a weekly book…
September 2, 2016 will see one of the largest coordinated labour strikes ever in India, possibly in the world. Trade unions cutting across political affiliations will shut down key sectors…
The current escalation of violence in Kashmir started on July 8, 2016 after the killing of Hizb ul Mujahideen’s Burhan Wani by the armed forces of the Indian State. As…
We, the undersigned journalists, activists and academics, condemn in the strongest terms, the brazen attack launched by RSS organizations and individuals on journalist Neha Dixit and Outlook magazine for a…
Dasha, Gujarat -- Ashok Parmar, who came into limelight during post Godhra riots in 2002 when he was captured by photographer Sebastian D'souza with a saffron band on head and iron…
August 5, Surendranagar, Gujarat — The Surendranagar District Collector (DC) will hold a meeting with the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the districts’ seven municipalities, to investigate the ongoing practice of employing…
Chennai, 25th July — The highly crowded and risky Marina Beach, the longest natural urban beach in India, has a notorious reputation. "Within the first week of July, five persons in…
The Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University, Suranjan Das, moved to suspend the accused Ekalavya Chaudhuri from attending college, pending an investigation by an independent probe committee into his actions. Chaudhuri, an…
On the 23rd of July 2016, an undergraduate student of Jadavpur University, Ekalavya Chaudhuri, was exposed via Facebook for alleged sexual harassment of over a dozen women, some of them…
To The Govt of India. and the Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir, We, the undersigned—current students, alumni of the Young India Fellowship, and faculty of Ashoka University—write to voice our…
Over 25 years on, Freny Manecksha unravels the grisly twists and turns in the tale, a take that involves allegations of gendered violence by the Indian army In April 2013,…
Despite the call by human rights organizations to stop the use of weapons such as pellet guns and chilli grenades in tackling riots or mob fury, security forces in the…
"Towal me bahar jaogi to Halla mach jayega Towal me bahar jaogi to Halla mach jayega Kar dogi badnaam tum Karo na aisa kaam tum Tumko aise dekh Har ek…
The recent Chennai High court judgment concerning the writer Perumal Murugan is a requisite addition to the Indian jurisprudence as it underlines the relationship between the writer and society, which…