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Alternative Entertainment

Cinema Under A Bridge Provides Bollywood Escape For The Poor In Delhi

A makeshift cinema hall under a 140-year-old bridge in the Indian capital is allowing poor rickshaw pullers and migrant labourers to escape daily hardship and sweltering he...

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Human Rights

Bonded Labourers, Sex Workers, Forced Beggars: India Leads World In Slavery

India has the largest population of modern slaves in the world with more than 18 million people trapped as bonded labourers, forced beggars, sex workers and child soldiers,...

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Human Rights

Half Of India's Homeless Children Are Labourers

Half of all children living on the street or from homeless families work for a living–at construction sites, hotels–and do not study, reveal data from surveys c...

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Human Rights

Bonded Labourers In Brick Kilns Slowly Learn They Have Rights

Thousands of brick kiln workers in Maharashtra are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic amenities and fair treatment - but remain in de...

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Human Rights

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

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Health

Spurt in HIV Positive Cases Rings Alarm Bells in Bengal

West Bengal is fast becoming a high-risk HIV positive state. According to statistics for the last two years available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West B...

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Top 5

Tech Trek: Themes of Technological Influence in Cinema

Like the ever-present air, we live and breathe technology. Despite our excessive dependence on the array of media at our disposal, we take our options for granted. Neverthe...

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Top 5

The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

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Sustainable Development

India?s quiet women farmers slip into crisis

Millions of women have gone from being land owners and cultivators to becoming labourers over a decade. Slight and dark, Shyampati, 30, leaned against a house made fragile ...

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Environment

Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery - Satyarthi

Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded lab...

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