As many as 160 LGBTQ films from across 43 countries will be screened at KASHISH, Mumbai’s International Queer Film Festival 2019. The festival will start on June 12 and will end on June 16. The list includes 31 short and […]
Mumbai: In the recently held Parliamentary elections, candidates belonging to Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi and MIM played a key role in dividing secular votes benefiting BJP and Shiv Sena in the State. It may be mentioned that Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi political […]
Whatever may be the place of caste in political dynamics elsewhere in India, there is no gainsaying its significance in Karnataka, even going back to pre-independence days. Alongside caste, a heightened focus on linguistic identity and its associations, and the […]
Nothing would be better than if Modi works to overcome his ‘divider’ image by ensuring that minorities feel secure. A new Lok Sabha and a befitting new tone. In his first speech after the Bharatiya Janata Party won 303 of […]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati will hold a meeting with the party’s newly elected Lok Sabha members, office bearers and senior leaders in New Delhi to review the party’s performance in the general election, a party leader said. The […]
NEW DELHI: BJP has increased its Lok Sabha tally from 282 in 2014 to 303 in 2019 and interestingly nearly half of its additional members (10 of 21) have come from reserved (SC/ST) constituencies, showing its expanded reach among Dalits […]
Amit Madhesiya and Shirley Abraham’s stark new film documents the normalisation of Hindu vigilantism When the public lynches in daylight, they make videos of it,” says the man. “It happened at night. Had it happened in daylight, there would have […]
Sanu Kummil’s documentary narrates struggles of Dalits in burying the dead Looking at an issue in isolation might not give one the true extent of it, on whether the same things are happening elsewhere too. A few years ago, documentary […]
Meerut: A Dalit woman aged 22 from Baghpat has been admitted to hospital with bullet wounds after local youth barged into her house and shot at her. She was immediately rushed to the hospital where her condition continues to be […]
She was the first candidate who kept singing on her campaigns, that too in a Left bastion, where vote seeking is literally a serious business. She was targeted with jibes like turning it into ‘a college election’. Her Communist adversaries […]
