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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 31, 2017January 31, 2017 by Manisha Ganguly

In Pictures: London Protests Trump’s #MuslimBan and UK Complicity

BY MANISHA GANGULY Monday, January 30 | More than 20,000 Londoners protested Trump's outrageous 90-day travel-ban against travellers from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the…

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December 5, 2016December 11, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

First Hitchcock, now Bertolucci: How Hollywood has accommodated rape culture

BY MANISHA GANGULY Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci has admitted in a 2013 video that has resurfaced, to conspiring with actor Marlon Brando against the 19-year old Maria Schneider…

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December 4, 2016December 11, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

“The struggle keeps you going”: Selma James,founder of International Wages for Housework Campaign, talks Trump, pay equity and more

BY MANISHA GANGULY Women's Budget Group has reported that austerity is likely to affect women's incomes twice as hard as men's by 2020. Selma James talks about the need for wages…

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November 30, 2016 by Firestone

Chimamanda Adichie on her Newsnight appearance: “I felt upset and ambushed”

Two weeks ago, BBC Newsnight contacted my manager to ask for an interview with me. I would be interviewed by the presenter, they said, and would broadly be asked about…

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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 24, 2016November 25, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

Kashmir Is Everyone’s Problem: Do Human Rights Matter Anymore?

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…

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November 23, 2016November 24, 2016 by Firestone

Black Mirror Review – This Dystopia Rings Too Close to Home

The first two episodes of Season 3 offer shattering critiques of human identity in simulated realities BY MANISHA GANGULY Black Mirror Season 3 is unsettling. In an unblinkered view of…

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November 22, 2016November 22, 2016 by Firestone

The Future Of The Workplace is Feminist

According to Deloitte's 5th annual Millenial Survey, two-third of the surveyed millenials (in India) expressed the wish to leave their organisations by 2020. Interestingly, some of the factors that make…

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November 19, 2016December 11, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

[In Pictures]: Life inside a London squat

BY MANISHA GANGULY Number 36 doesn't look like a squat. In a too-neat neighbourhood with Victorian houses and white picket fences, it's the junk furniture left out on the yard…

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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…

Make the Kurds free again
November 14, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Make Kurdistan Free Again? U.S. Policy, President Trump, and the Kurds

“No friends but the mountains.” ― Kurdish Proverb With the surprise election victory of Donald Trump, many Kurds within the four regions of Greater Kurdistan and abroad in the diaspora…

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November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 by Firestone

In Tweets: How Demonetisation Is Affecting Indians Without Privilege

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…

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November 8, 2016November 9, 2016 by Firestone

Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, What joy. And what lovely names: Chizalum Adaora. She is so beautiful. Only a day old and she already looks curious about the world. Your note made me…

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 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 25, 2016 by Firestone

Should Corporates Control Water?

Be it a “public actor” or a “private actor” in charge of water services, if they aim to make profit, people’s suffering are inevitable, said Petra Dobner, Professor of Political…

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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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October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

The Cluetrain Manifesto: The Conversation We Need to Have About the Internet

A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting…

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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 17, 2016September 17, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

Victory for Students and Access to Knowledge in DU Copyright Case: Corporate Publishers Market ends at the gates of the University

- Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge (ASEAK) In a rare and incredible order today, the Delhi High Court has dismissed the copyright infringement case filed by Oxford…

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September 15, 2016September 15, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

This Text Message Exchange Between a Mother and Daughter is Pure Gold

When Belinda Hankins got a text message from her 13-year-old daughter, who was shopping for period products, it started an exchange that will resonate with women everywhere. Enjoy. THIS was…

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September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

No Country for Free Speech : An Independent Overseas Journalist

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/…

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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, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Why I Find The ‘Support’ Of Hollywood’s Humanitarians Meaningless

I think what we have to acknowledge is that no matter who wins the Democratic primary, four-hundred refugees drowned escaping the historical superstructures of imperialism, neoliberal intervention, and destruction through…

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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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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, 2016August 25, 2016 by Firestone

A Revolution is Not a Dinner Party

Does the word “revolution” mean the same thing to the Kurdish liberation movement and to American leftists who supported Bernie Sanders? A little history...  In the 20th century, it was…

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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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