Mar 20, 2023 The Grant Govan Homes is a refuge for elderly Anglo-Indians in the capital where a little part of the Raj continues to live out its last days of glory
Mar 09, 2023 Cities are preserved in prose and poetry, in stone and masonry, in statistics and data, in images and memories. Artist Seher Shah preserves a city in a memoriography made of screen prints
Mar 09, 2023 In her artwork, Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova arranges stones collected from riverbeds to make them look like loaves of Palianytsia—welcome bread savoured in her country. These bread-shaped river stones are a symbol of identity and resistance in a war-torn nation
Mar 09, 2023 Showcased at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 in Goa, 'Money Opera' is a commentary on the fate of dreams in a society abandoned by the wealthy one percent
Mar 10, 2023 The stunning 15-minute short film Warsha by Lebanese filmmaker Dania Bdier, a Sundance prizewinner and festival favourite since its release in 2022, explores the lives of Syrians in Lebanon and the ravages of war.
Feb 27, 2023 Over 15 women were widowed in February 2020 when violence in northeast Delhi left 53 people dead. Many lost their brothers, sons, and fathers. Three years on, life refuses to move on.
Feb 21, 2023 We are what Marianne Hirsch calls ‘the generation of post-memory’. Exposed to traumatic experiences of years that preceded our birth, we live the trauma — perhaps experienced by a parent, a friend, a city as our own. The loss of a city due to an earthquake means many things to many people like a lapse in city planning or an ‘act of God’, but it is also the site for the creation of post-memory and ghosts that never abandon the city even if the living do.
Feb 19, 2023 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has held that money power should not influence voters and it’s working with district magistrates, local level hill council members, religious bodies, tribal leaders, and civil society groups to ensure clean elections. But within a fortnight of the announcement of elections, enforcement agencies have already seized Rs 31 crore across Nagaland.
Feb 19, 2023 Mumbai-based designer and graphic artist Mira Felicia Malhotra’s mixed media work titled ‘Log Kya Kahenge’ fuses painting, irony, and virtual reality to give an inside peek within the dynamics of dysfunction in an everyday Indian family.
Feb 15, 2023 Four women candidates are in the fray among 183 candidates contesting the upcoming Nagaland assembly elections. All major parties including the NDPP, BJP, and Congress have fielded women but regional parties remain aloof.
Feb 13, 2023 What does love mean in 2023? It perhaps depends on who is asked. Love is colour-blind, they say. Yet, seen through a prism, it has many hues.
Feb 10, 2023 In their attempt to make inroads into Christian-dominated Nagaland and Meghalaya, the Saffron Brigade is deploying customised winning strategies, even invoking Rani Gaidinliu, the noted Naga freedom fighter
Feb 09, 2023 Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in Nagaland, a new, Centre-endorsed movement for statehood within the state seems to be colouring electoral politics, diluting the state’s demand for the ‘Naga solution’
Feb 06, 2023 The gendered assumptions of femininity and masculinity often directly impact the ability of girls and women to play in India. For instance, young girls in India are often discouraged from strength- or muscle-training and athleticism as then it's said they would start looking like a man.
Jan 26, 2023 Distinct from other dance forms that have been Brahminised and brought within the pantheon of Indian performative arts, lavani has remained marginalised despite a history of several centuries, and is primarily performed, at least in its living, organic form today, in small towns and rural spaces.
Jan 25, 2023 To understand why does myth of the holy cow continues to endure, one must look at history, not the one preached by WhatsApp University but real textual evidence and track the trajectory of the cow from a milch cattle that was eaten and sacrificed to a divine entity
Oct 09, 2022 Outlook spoke to women’s rights activist Zakia Soman, one of the founding members of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, about how the hijab ban impacts Muslim girls’ education and whether the hijab is essential in Islam.
Jan 24, 2023 Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, also known as 'Ram Dhun', is a bhajan that was widely popularised by Mahatma Gandhi and the lines 'Ishwar Allah tero naam' which he added to the bhajan were once a heavily used phrase in Bollywood songs. No more.
Jan 22, 2023 Residents of the area dubbed as the Yamuna floodplains have repeatedly been subjected to forced evictions. Many are now disillusioned with politicians and have now lost hope of ever having a permanent home.
Jan 19, 2023 While authorities in Delhi destroy homes of the poor in the name of development and beautification, rights activists claim that in most cases, urban slum clusters mushroom around the so-called ‘elite’ and ‘high society’ neighbourhoods that survive by outsourcing blue-collar errands
Jan 19, 2023 In the transit town of Haldwani, about 50,000 people are currently embroiled in a legal tussle with the North Eastern Railways and the state government for their right to reside on what they call their ancestral land
Jan 13, 2023 Large-scale evictions are an unpopular yet inadvertent manifestation of how a state can practice demographic control. Such acts are often justified by the state using the argument of utilitarianism (sacrifice a few for the benefit of some) and by invoking 'development' and 'public good'. In a majority of cases, evictions fail to serve any public good.
Jan 08, 2023 While the number of homeless women in Delhi is in the thousands, there are just 19-night shelters for women in Delhi and the majority of the existing centers fail to provide more than the bare minimum.
Jan 08, 2023 Winter can be fatal for the homeless and marginalised and the government needs to provide them with greater assistance. Just providing temporary shelter is an insufficient solution.
Dec 29, 2022 For Bollywood hairstylist Avan Contractor, with more than two decades of experience behind her, hairdo is more than making a statement