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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…
« 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…
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…
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 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…
"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,…
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…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…