The Law of the Land

Environmental lawyers and organizations across the world have begun to demand intrinsic 'rights' for nature- natural bodies, flora and fauna...

Waiting for the Ban on Banning of Banning!

While the intentions of outright banning books, art, music, symbols, statues, or behaviour are usually always good—desires to end raci...

India's Battle Against Sexual Violence

Sexual violence against women is a global concern. In the United States, there are around 293,000 victims of sexual assault every year. Sexual assault is also underreported...

Sanal Kumar Sasidharan: “There is nothing sexy about Durga in my film”.

The firebrand director shot to fame recently when his latest film S Durga was banned from being showcased as part of the Indian Panorama section in the 49^{th Read More}

What’s gone wrong with TV news in India

Broadcast news has dominated as the major source of news and information across the world for over 3 decades. This was all the more possible...

Labour Laws for Children

Human Rights Watch published a dispatch last Wednesday, reporting the establishing of a new policy, that prohibits children under the age of 18 from working with green toba...

Hollywood is haunted by tales of Pedophilia – the Kids Need to Be Protected!

For everyone who is assuming that "Harvey Weinstein Scandal" opened the floodgates to sexual harassment cases in Hollywood, you are wrong. As much as we would like to belie...

The Cobrador’s Stare

Debt collectors are known to be aggressive and sometimes violent, but what happens with a black-clad hooded figure does nothing but follow a defaulter around and stare at h...

Remedying a Greek Tragedy

In a small corner of Athens in Greece, everyday, a group of migrant women gather- not to formulate protests or prepare speeches, but to teach.

Classes range from se...