India's Tribes And Lower Castes Demand Legal Right To Shelter, Land

For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on l...

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination

New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact unless deeply entre...

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

58% Disabled SC/ST Kids Not Schooled

While most parents shuttle between different schools as the admission season gets underway, for some families educating their children is not a choice - they have to help t...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Bimal Roy Memorial Presents A Screening Of Masaan (Crematorium).

AWARDED THE BIMAL ROY MEMORIAL 2016 HONOUR FOR BEST EMERGING DIRECTOR
6th February, 2016 ,6 pm at
St. Paul’s M...

Sundance: Netflix To Land Indian Sex Comedy 'Brahman Naman'

Netflix is nearing a deal to add yet another Sundance title to its slate. The company is close to a pact for worldwide streaming rights to “Brahman Naman,” Vari...

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...