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Progressive India and Social Media
In 2005, when I was an undergrad atJUDE, our canny Registrar went on a holiday, and in the absence of his velvet-covered iron gloves, things fell apart spectacularly. What could have been a small...
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From Fourteen Fasting Students Determined to Live
The students of Jadavpur University request humbly that you starve yourself for 24 hours. I pass on their request to you because I am heartened by your passionate outrage about global moral crises:...
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Snapshots of a Small Revolution, 1
The #hokkolorob (‘Let there be clamour’, ‘let there be a confluence of voices’) movement based in Jadavpur University saw a great deal of support from the public, and some opposition from the state...
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Little Red’s New Coat, Road Dahl
I was speaking to my mum on the phone today, when my dad came on the line specifically to tell me that he read my post reproducing James Thurber’s retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, and that he...
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Live-in Ruins Careers
This is one of Markendya Katju’s least popular recent social media commentary. And that’s encouraging, because in India, people are still harassed and assaulted for the ‘indiscretion’ he counsels...
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Victimising the Good Men
There has been a lot of noise in India lately about the banning of BBC’s India’s Daughter, forcing the house to release it virtually on YouTube (which promptly blocked its viewing, at least in India)....
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Gorgeous Green Humour
Thanks to a link by ace baker and my social media friend Kamini Gopal, I found the amazing – and absolutely hilarious – wildlife website of Rohan Chakravarty. Aptly called Green Humour, the site...
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Squashing Society’s Advancing Rot
A few months back, an online acquaintance [“a handsome genius of an online acquaintance”, he wishes you to know] very generously pointed his social network to a fantastic page on Facebook. And by...
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The Great Indian Price Con
[Much like the Flipkart Pricing Con, only with medicines.] Over the years, as the noonday demon sank its subtle claws deeper into me, I began to gradually go off the current events grid. I began...
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“The 21st Century Gold Rush”
This is a piece by Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie in the Highliner. I recommend reading it in full, right down to the credits page, because while the story details human monstrosity in human...
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