A small but spirited protest on Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder by the BJP/Sangh Parivar and Brahmanical forces took place inside the premises of the Kolkata Book Fair today. The protest…
3rd November, Kolkata: Students and protesters under the banner "Save and Increase Non-NET Fellowship" gathered in front of the UGC Office in Kolkata to condemn the police atrocities on peaceful protestors that…
Moharram is a period of mourning and memorializing for the Shaheed - e - Karbala (martyrs of Karbala). For nearly 200 years now, there has been a prototypical Shi’i tradition,…
October 28, Kolkata: Students and scholars started gathering around the Chingrighata crossing (beside Jal-Vayu Bhavan) at around 12. There were students from various universities around Kolkata such as ISI, JU,…
September 1 | Kolkata: The agitation against moral policing and yellow journalism organised under the hashtag handles #AmioTamoghna and #TrashABP, continued for the second successive day in Kolkata today, as protesters…
27th August, Thursday | Kolkata: While returning home in a taxi at 7 AM, Pratap Basu (name changed on request) was confronted with a most harrowing experience. The taxi driver, on not…
Over the course of the last few months a disturbing occurrence has been noticed in the streets of Calcutta. A sharp decline in the stray dog population in certain portions…
State aided violence reigned again at Kolkata on Thursday, 2nd April, 2015, at a students’ rally organized by SFI (Student’s Federation of India) and its allied student unions (AISF, AISB,…
A hundred and eighty students of Presidency University, Kolkata sat on an indefinite hunger strike demanding their right to sit in the examination despite their low attendance. "The implementation of this…
Dear moral police, I imagine you now, sitting at your laptop, hunched over the screen as you read this. You are either a) wondering what "moral police" means or, b)…
They are influenced by, ''Shiny objects. Colours. Happy hours. And of course, the movies. In other news: Bappi Lahiri, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ramsay Brothers, Kumar Shanu, The Police, Jamiroquai, System of A Down, No Doubt, Mehboob Band'' (as…
Students, tired after a long day of protest, unwind with music, and much-needed sleep as the posters scream in the darkness. A photostory in (mostly) multiple exposure, documenting the ongoing protests in Jadavpur…
“Are we afraid to ask the questions that scare us?” This question brought together a group of young theatre enthusiasts from various colleges in Kolkata in December 2011. The one…