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Nov 12, 2018
#MeToo: Understanding consent and sex-positivity in a patriarchal society
Patriarchal hookup culture treats consent like a game, something to be secured so that technically what follows isn’t rape. Many of the narratives that have emerged during #MeToo have revealed the hollowness of the distinction between illegal rape and unethical sex. -
Nov 10, 2018
Mo’Halla and the film Jagte Raho on everything that doesn’t disappear
In this chapter of Jagte Raho, which features art and text by Mo’Halla, humans are caught in the big infrastructure of the big city. His work Nightfall in Democracy Heights makes jibes at and speculates on demonetisation -
Nov 09, 2018
Dalit shahirs of Maharashtra: In Suresh Bhat's ghazals, a fight against oppression
Suresh Bhat, who had failed his exams and faced humiliation because of a deformed leg, found the strength to fight because of the Ambedkarite literature he read -
Nov 07, 2018
Lens on history: Praveen Jain on capturing milestone events in India through a 37-year career
“I still hear the voices of the victims in my head,” says photojournalist Praveen Jain, of shooting photographs of the Hashimpura massacre -
Nov 06, 2018
Calcutta then, Kolkata now: Portraits of a city's past, juxtaposed against its present
Much water has flown down the Hooghly since the time Calcutta was modern India’s first capital, from 1772-1931, to its transition into the 21st-century mahanagar that is present-day Kolkata -
Nov 04, 2018
Loved, hated but never ignored, Lewis Hamilton is the spectacle F1 needs
For a sport at the crossroads, Lewis Hamilton is the perfect metaphor -
Nov 03, 2018
Jagte Raho: Amshu Chukki looks at a protest that never happened
Amshu Chukki’s on-going interest in the political histories of Karnataka is routed via the site, more specifically, sites of protest scattered across the state capital, Bangalore -
Nov 01, 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2: The symbology, morality and philosophy of Rockstar Games' latest
Red Dead Redemption 2 reminds you that those who choose to live by the sword, run a good chance of dying by the sword -
Oct 31, 2018
The Hashimpura massacre: A short oral history, told by survivors
Thirty years after the 1987 massacre in Hashimpura not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. -
Oct 30, 2018
Who shot the parrot? How the Asthana-Verma war broke out in the CBI
A caged parrot, is how Justice AK Patnaik, now supervising the investigation into the charges Verma and Asthana have levelled at each other, had once described the CBI
