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goodbye
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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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…

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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…

'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…

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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…

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, 2016 by Firestone

WATCH: “Why Hasn’t Central Government Declared a National Medical Emergency Yet?”

"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,…

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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 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…

femread
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 1, 2016September 1, 2016 by Firestone

Cocks Not Glocks: College Activists Carry Dildos To Protest “Campus Carry” Law

College students from the University of Texas at Austin kicked off the new school year with a protest that will be remembered for ages because of its bold approach. Students…

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 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 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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August 3, 2016August 1, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

A Literary Analysis of Tweets by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

If Trump is dystopian pulp fiction, then Clinton is insipid middle-brow literary fiction. Neither of them is literature. Tilopa (988-1069) – born in Bengal (Chittagong or Jagora) – after a…

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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 22, 2016 by Firestone

Emily Smith Turns Her Experience of Assault into Vibrant Paintings

Emily Smith writes on her site: "In the spring of 2015, I was assaulted by a stranger on my walk home from the gym. I was left unconscious on the street…

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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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July 6, 2016July 6, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Graffiti during Times of Protest: Case Studies of a Sentient Medium

The city has a reciprocal relationship with the space and the content in it- the content defines as much of the space as the space defines content, and the external…

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May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

[WATCH] Do You Remember Konan Poshpora? :Interview by Video Volunteers

  “Do you remember Kunan Poshpora? a book by five young Kashmiri women Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid and Natasha Rather investigates the fateful night of mass-rape…

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March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Watch: The Hangman (1964) Paul Julian & Les Goldman

A parable about the consequences of being a bystander to evil, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like…

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March 11, 2016July 21, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

প্রাতঃকৃত্য / PraatohKrityo : In conversation with Eyezine

Praatohkrityo, a dance performance that premiered at the Academy of Fine Arts, on 21st February and which had its second showing last night, aimed at challenging ‘Hindutva fundamentalism, moral policing,…

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February 11, 2016February 11, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Artist Paul Lewin Paints Folklore and Science-Fiction Emerging from African Diaspora

Who is Paul Lewin? I was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1973 and moved to the U.S. with my family in 1977. I spent most of my years growing up…

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January 11, 2016July 20, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

“Body Is Mine, I The Soul”: Transgender Nude Artist Ratri in Conversation with Eye

Ratri Rajesh Saha is a transgender woman working in TCS. She is also a revolutionary queer icon, who is choosing to express herself by using her body as a canvas. She…

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January 7, 2016June 30, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

WATCH: New #OccupyUGC Video On To Study Or Not Be Able To Study

On the 4th of January, as the #OccupyUGC protest entered its 75th day, a group known as The Media Collective published this video to highlight the issues at stake. The Occupy protest in front of the University…

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December 28, 2015June 30, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Queer Intersectionality: Why Laws Need To Advocate for Inclusivity Against Essentialism

Intersectionality is an analytical tool for observing, understanding and responding to the ways in which gender intersects with other constructs like caste, class, race, sexual orientation, and how such intersections result…

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December 27, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Why the Bechdel-Wallace Test Is Not The Last Word In “Feminist” Films

Our interactions in daily life stem from visual perceptions – our culture reflects, and is reflected by, the style of conversation and situational formula that is depicted on screen. Images…

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December 23, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

How Our Culture Encourages Its Women to Be Silenced

"No explanation needed." In fifth grade, I won the school courtesy prize. In other words, I won an award for being polite. My brother, on the other hand, was considered…


VIDEO: No Malnutrition – The Tea Gardens of Bengal

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December 10, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Rest in Rage, Comrade Vidrohi!

Comrade Vidrohi is no more. Met him in good health even a few months back in Delhi, so sort of unbelievable to hear of his passing. He was one my…

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November 22, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Photographer Reveals The Heartbreaking Places Syrian Refugee Children Sleep

For the series “Where The Children Sleep,” photojournalist Magnus Wennman traveled through refugee camps in the Middle East to document the trials of Syrian families and their children. Fleeing conflict…

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