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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 : Win of Collective Conscience over Religious Jingoism

Current Affairs, Politics & Social, PopularAAP, Amit Shah, Arvind Kejriwal, BJP, CAA, Delhi Assembly Election, Narendra Modi, NRC, Shaheen Bagh

From director’s desk Written by : Jayanta Chakrabarty Illustration by : Suman Choudhury In the beginning of January 2014, I was in Delhi. Dhoom 3 was released in theatres a few days back and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had formed a minority government in a hung assembly with outside support of 8 legislative members of Indian National Congress, with Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was biting the dust instead of being the signal largest party with 31 elected members in an Assembly of 70 seats. It was a tumultuous political situation; it was…

Feb

04

2020

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The CRISPR Story : From boon to bane?

Science & TechChina, CRISPR, DNA, Gene, Gene editing, HIV, National Geographic

Written By: Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Department of Plant Science and innovation University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Photo: Shutterstock.com CRISPR is something you must have come across in your science news feed in the last couple of years or so. Even if you have not, you may have seen the big news that took social media by storm – the genome-edited babies in China, Lulu and Nana. One might wonder what is this fuss all about and why is this technique in the news all of a sudden? To make sense of it all its important to delve a little into the…

Feb

02

2020

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CAA – NRC : Struggling Economy and the Unconstitutional Dream of Creating a Hindu Nation

Current Affairs, Economics, PopularCAA, Currency, IMF, Indian Economy, LIC, NPR, NRC, Slowdown

Written By: Dr. Trina Biswas Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Photo Credit: shutterstock.com Let me make it clear, this time I want to be on the right side of history. Nowadays so many netizenswould argue that you cannot protest about this incident today since you did not protest about something that happened in 1450 BC, you cannot take the side of that group when you didn’t say anything while the other group was suffering. Yes, I get it, I was wrong. I chose to be silent about something that happed long before…

Jan

15

2020

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Smells of teen power : The ongoing revolution in India

Politics & SocialAishee Ghosh, Amit Shah, CAA, Delhi, Jamia Millia, JNU, Narendra Modi, NRC, Shaheen Bagh, Visva-Bharati

Written by : Debkumar Mitra Kolkata, India Illustration : Suman Choudhury A little more than 50 years after that famous student uprising in the streets of Paris, 1968 is being replayed in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, and other cities of India. While, the French students led by people such as Danny the Red fought with President Charles de Gaulle’s gendarme for sexual freedom, war in Vietnam and jobs, in India the students are out in the openapparently, if one goes by the official media versions,to protest police excesses on university campuses. The situation has been on the boil on the…

Jan

02

2020

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CAA Protest Scenario in Assam : The Facts and What the Political Parties Have to Say

Current Affairs, Politics & Social, PopularAssam, CAA, CAB, citizenship, detention centre, NRC, refugee camp, Supreme Court

Written By: Pema Bhadra Guwahati, India Photo Credit: Pema Bhadra Case 1 One Mr Narayan, age 60 plus, charred to death while sleeping inside a hotel owned by a Bengali. The hotel, with 5 other shops were set on fire by the so-called anti-CAA agitators in Tinsukia District, Assam. By the way, his death did not find any space in the local newspapers, news channels. Case 2 An oil tanker heading to Numaligarh Refinery set on fire by six youths on three bikes. The driver of the Tanker Abdul Ali died inside the cabin. Helper Moslemuddin is fighting for his…

Dec

14

2019

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Detention Centres in Assam: The Current ‘Home’ for Nationeless People

Current Affairs, Politics & Social, PopularAssam, citizenship, detention centre, NRC, refugee camp, Supreme Court

Written By: Pema Bhadra Guwahati, India Photo Credit: Pema Bhadra A lush green field. Gentle bridge mixed with drizzle. A river flowing in the backdrop washing the feet of the hills. Everything around is so fresh, so green…. Ideal place indeed for a weekend trip. In fact, setting up a resort here won’t be a bad idea. Now, the feel-good factors end up here. Yes, a big complex is being built right there with multiple-storied buildings. But it’s not a resort, it’s a prison. A prison biggest in its class. World’s number two in status. The name we call it…

Nov

28

2019

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Blurry boundaries, abundant homes!

Art & CultureAnindya Chatterjee, Boundary, Homeland, Imagine, Independent film, John Lennon, La Patrie, Parambrata Chatterjee

Written by: Shreya Seth Kolkata, India Film Review: La Patrie- Homeland Country: India-France Director: Anindya Chatterjee Cast: Parambrata Chatterjee, Ani Hovhannisyan In 1972, when President Richard Nixon was seeking re-election in the United States, he was threatened by John Lennon’s growing popularity and influence, especially his stance against the Vietnam war. In March 1973, John Lennon received a deportation order from the administration citing an erstwhile case from 1968, where Lennon was convicted for possessing marijuana in England. A week after the deportation order, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a press conference announcing the formation of a new conceptual…

Sep

12

2019

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Amazon Rainforest: Is it only the Fire that we should be concerned about?

EconomicsAmazon Fire, Bolsonaro, Brazil, Climate Change, Deforestation, Global warming, Greenpeace, Rainforest

Written By: Dr. Trina Biswas Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Illustration: Suman Choudhury The Amazon River Basin, home to the largest rainforest on earthcovers roughly 40 percent of the South American continent. It encompasses areas in Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.Nearly two-thirds of amazon’s forest cover lies in Brazil. The Amazon rainforest has long been recognized as a warehouse of ecological services for the world. It is home to almost 10% of the world’s biodiversity and 30% of the world’s species. The rainforest is referred to…

Jul

12

2019

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Abu- a personal account with a political bearing

Art & CultureAbu, Arshad Khan, Canada, Documentary, Gay, Homosexuality, Immigration, India, Indo-Pak, Islam, LGBT, LGBTQI, Pakistan

Written by: Shreya Seth Kolkata, India Film Review: Abu Country: Canada-Pakistan Director:Arshad Khan The camera is a beautiful device that succinctly captures and retains all that our restless vision and cramped memories cannot. However, it might seem to be losing its charm in a world that is predominantly obsessed with capturing everyday life, not with the intention to retain or revisit, perhaps to abide to a false sense of self- portrayal and self-validation. Amidst these changes, Arshad Khan's documentary 'Abu' comes as a refreshing take on personal life told primarily through a camera that is not a mere intruder or…

Apr

11

2019

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Manto: The relentless censorship on reality and dissent

Art & CultureBiopic, Bombay, Lahore, Manto, Nandita Das, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Saadat Hasan Manto

Written by: Shreya Seth Kolkata, India Film Review: Manto Director: Nandita Das Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal, Rajshri Deshpande, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Bhanu Uday, Vinod Nagpal A growing climate of intolerance has no room for dissent. Saadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu author and playwright born in British India, met the same fate that many others do for speaking their minds today. Infamous for his raw portrayal of reality, Manto wrote extensively during the partition era of the 40’s and was tried for obscenity in British India and later in Pakistan. Written and directed by Nandita Das,…