two posters by Harsh Kapoor for a public event on Demilitarisation, Democracy and social justice in South Asia organised by SAAPE in New Delhi on 24 August 2013
two posters by Harsh Kapoor for a public event on Demilitarisation, Democracy and social justice in South Asia organised by SAAPE in New Delhi on 24 August 2013
One year has passed since the monsoon of 2012, which witnessed, in Assam, the country’s largest displacement caused by ethnic and communal mass violence after the Partition riots of 1947-48. Half a million people were uprooted from their villages because their homes were looted and set ablaze, or simply for fear of their lives. It is extraordinary how easily the rest of the country has forgotten the carnage and the mass suffering it engendered. Part of the reason for this national amnesia is that this violence scarred India’s distant north-eastern frontiers, and the survivors were either indigenous Bodo tribals or Bengali Muslims.
On the 21st of August 2013 students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Yugpath, Pune organized a screening of ‘Jai Bhim Comrade’, followed by a discussion with Anand Patwardhan and a performance by members of the Kabir Kala Manch. At the close of this event, five students of FTII were physically attacked by twelve members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
I read your story on CNN.com, in which you describe your trauma at being subjected to repeated sexual aggression and assault in India. I wish I could tell you that what you had to experience is limited to a few people and a few places in my beautiful country; it is not. From the mountains in the north to the seas in the south, from the jungles in the northeast to the prosperity of the west, India is filled with men who get away with sickening behaviour because we as a society think it’s no big deal to stare at, film, touch, grope, harass women.
A crusader against fraud godmen and irrational beliefs, Narendra Dabholkar’s brutal death has shaken the establishment to the core, much more than his lifelong struggle to eradicate superstitions from society
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