socio-political arguments
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
- 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
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…
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…
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…