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May 27, 2018July 6, 2018 by Eye Art Collective

Eyezine is dead: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

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…

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January 26, 2017January 27, 2017 by Manisha Ganguly

Solidarité des Femmes: Women’s March in Paris

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…

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November 28, 2016December 11, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

Writer Zadie Smith Hosts Book-reading To Support Threatened Community Centre

BY MANISHA GANGULY Monday, 28th November: Zadie Smith has backed the campaign against the demolition of the Granville Plus Centre in Kilburn. The White Teeth author was in attendance on Friday,…

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November 27, 2016November 28, 2016 by Firestone

Stronger Together: How anti-racist networks are uniting against hate in UK

By Manisha Ganguly The Bakerloo line on a Sunday: a woman in a hijab sits down; across from her, a white man yells, “Paki! Go back!”. Two white co-passengers get…

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November 26, 2016November 26, 2016 by Firestone

Che’s Farewell Letter to Fidel: “In a revolution one wins or dies”

« Year of Agriculture » Havana, April 1, 1965 Fidel: At this moment I remember many things: when I met you in Maria Antonia's house, when you proposed I come…

'Chaay Garam', organised by People's Film Collective, focused on lives of tea garden workers
November 19, 2016November 20, 2016 by Siddhesh

Chaay Garam: Speaking up for Rights and Dignity of Tea Garden Workers

In the midst of a nation-wide financial crisis following the central government’s sudden demonitisation announcement of 8th November, there came the terrible news that the weekly wages of tea garden…

by Alessana Hall.
November 17, 2016December 11, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

Jagged Edge: Becka Hudson on her play tackling immigration & gentrification

BY MANISHA GANGULY Becka Hudson's play Jagged Edge is sharply political: it makes no excuses about the conflicts it deals with. It exposes the immigration rules in UK for what…

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November 17, 2016November 19, 2016 by Siddhesh

Liberal Yet Regressive – The Crisis in Mainstream Intelligence

On 16th September 2016, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote an article titled ‘The Intellectual Yet Idiot’. It is a satirical take on the ‘intelligentsia’ that inhabit the mainstream spaces of public…

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November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

“The future of our planet is at stake”: Eco-warriors fight Heathrow expansion

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…

Free Peltier and Mumia
October 28, 2016 by Firestone

President Obama: Before the Empire Falls, Free Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal

Man, I dream of just being able to paint. Go to sleep when I want, get up when I want, eat when I want. Try to enjoy what’s left for…

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October 27, 2016October 27, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

‘There is Room for Everything in Art, As It Always Should Be’: Interview with Emily Smith

Why did you decide to be an artist? Please tell us a bit about your journey. I’ve been creating art for my entire life; it’s always been a part of…

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October 26, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

Exploring Mental Illness through Literature: An Interview with Rosheena Zehra

Mental illness has always been a contentious topic in mainstream literature and media. Writing about it has meant either romanticising it or stigmatising it. Very few discussions have managed to…

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October 13, 2016 by Firestone

Native Americans Arrested at Protest for Indigenous People’s Day

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…

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October 6, 2016 by Firestone

Unfinished Portrait: Tracking Footsteps of the Post- 9/11 World

If Carter and Reagan hadn’t funded the Mujahideen, there would have been no Taliban. And if there had been no oil in Kuwait, there would have been no 1991 US-Iraq…

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September 29, 2016September 30, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

Is There Some Space For Us Too?

I don’t feel it’s necessary to quote numbers to establish a fact we all know – this country produces the largest number of films. We are also proudly told that…

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September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

Kerala’s Casteist Breast Tax And The Story Of Nangeli

Believe it or not, but there was a time in the early 19th century when women in Kerala had to pay a Mula karam or breast tax to be able…

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September 12, 2016September 12, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Imagine a Feminist Village of The Future

On the last day of the AWID International Forum in Brazil, more than two thousand women came together to help imagine a feminist future, and to look at the hard…

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September 8, 2016September 11, 2016 by Firestone

Drone Unknowns: “I No Longer Love Blue Skies”

I got involved in the whole drones process because I was representing people in Guantanamo Bay. And when President Obama came into office he says we’re going to close Guantanamo…

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September 8, 2016 by Firestone

State Violence Against Peaceful Public Meetings

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…

Mouth Wide Shut
September 5, 2016September 8, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

End the Witch Hunting of Lawyers, Activists and Repression on the People of Kashmir

Indian Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL), expresses its outrage and strongly condemns the continuing use of brute force by the Indian Army, Security Forces and J&K Police on unarmed civilians…

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September 5, 2016September 6, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

FeministReads #1: “Caste is Not a Rumour” & “No Outlaws”

#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…

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September 2, 2016 by Firestone

150 Million Indian Workers Strike Today Against Modi’s Anti-Labor Policies: Find Out Why

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…

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August 30, 2016September 1, 2016 by Firestone

In Solidarity with Dalit Asmita Yatra

The 15th of August, 2016 will be a historic occasion for the subcontinent for a few significant reasons. Primary amongst these is the culmination in Gujarat’s Una of the eleven-day-long…

Cinema of Resistance
August 29, 2016 by Firestone

An Evening of Kiarostami & His Times

On the 15th of August, 2016, People's Film Collective (Kolkata) organised a full-day programme in order to remember the master fillmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who passed away in July 2016. In…

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August 29, 2016September 1, 2016 by Firestone

Why Filmmakers Are Uniting Against The SRFTI Watermark

Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India (SRFTI) are the only two central government funded film institutes in the country. Both…

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August 26, 2016 by Firestone

“Am I Alive?”: What Happens When You’re Outed As A Homosexual in Uganda

Irakowze* is a twenty-year-old living in Kampala, Uganda, where homosexuality is a crime punishable from 3 years to life in prison. He has been hiding ever since being “outed” by Uganda’s…

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August 25, 2016 by Firestone

WATCH: This Slam Poem Attacks Sexual Harassment Faced by North Eastern Women

Vinatoli Yeptho, a 22-year-old law student from National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata takes on stereotyping and sexual harassment faced by North Eastern womyn in India. Titled “Five rules…

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August 18, 2016 by Firestone

On the Conflicted Space of “Chitmahals” between the Indo-Bangladesh Border: Arpita Chakraborty

There are more than two hundred geo-political enclaves in various continents across the globe. "Chhits" or Enclaves are small fragments of land owned by one country, inside the geographical boundaries…

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August 5, 2016 by Firestone

The Veil of Poetry in Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah Series

Shirin Neshat (born 1957, Qazvin), who lives and works in New York City, left Iran in 1974 to study in Los Angeles. She stayed in California, receiving her BFA and…

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July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 by Firestone

WATCH: Nike Da Da Ding The Other Women

This video published on YouTube by user Epic Spiritual recently went viral for exposing the hypocrisy in Nike's new ad. Dedicated to the women who have been doing it anyway, for centuries. Without appreciation,…

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July 24, 2016July 25, 2016 by Firestone

Halla Mach Jayega: How Bollywood Has Been Responsible For The Spread of Eve-Teasing

"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…

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July 24, 2016July 25, 2016 by Firestone

In Defence of the Writer

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…

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July 21, 2016 by Firestone

Following the Sacred Graves: Image, Voice, Fragrance at the Mazars of Kolkata

There are three and half Qalandariyas. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Bu Ali Shah Qalandar, Data Hayat Mir Qalandar, and Rabia Basri. Basri which means she was born in Basra. Qalandariyas even…

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