Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has lent support to comedian Kunal Kamra by not flying in IndiGo Airlines. He chose Vistara instead. “No @IndiGo6E.. on @airvistara .. in solidarity with @kunalkamra88,” Kashyap tweeted on Monday. Kashyap came out in support of Kamra […]
Victoria Memorial: Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide in 2016 had spurred another student in faraway US to do what she had thought was beyond her — tell the world that she was a Dalit. Yashica Dutt, a journalist-turned-author, spoke […]
Hubballi: Residents of Altaf Nagar, N A Nagar, Ishwar Nagar, Jannath Nagar, united under the banner of Anjuman-E-Islam launched a week’s dharna at the Mini Vidhan Soudha opposing and the implementation of Citizen Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and […]
Varun Grover’s poem in Bengali video Aamra kagoj dekhabo na (We will not show our papers), several actors, a singer, a theatre and film director, a writer and an academic have chanted in a short video to protest the Citizenship […]
He also said that he will bash protestors with lathis, shoot them and put them in jail Creating controversy has been an old habit of BJP state president Dilip Ghosh. At a public meeting in West Bengal’s Nadia district speaking […]
Shivang from Ambedkar University, Delhi, was hit on the head with a police baton while being detained at Janpath around 6pm on Thursday. He was part of the Citizen’s March called by the unions of JNU teachers and students Picture […]
Manoranjan Byapari, the celebrated Dalit Bengali writer, has taken on many odd jobs in life-as a rickshaw-puller, a sweeper, watchman, cook or whatever else came his way. Through all this, though, he stuck unwaveringly to his one and only passion-writing. […]
Kolkata: As a row boils in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) over a Muslim professor teaching Sanskrit, Bengal has shown the way in the last two years with nearly 30 Muslim teachers qualifying as Muslim professors. While 14 Muslim professors were […]
KOLKATA: Comparisons are odious but this one tells a tale. At the Banaras Hindu University, a Sanskrit professor has been facing resistance from a section of students because he is a Muslim. Last week, while these students were engaged in […]
An assistant professor at Rabindra Bharati University who had allegedly been taunted for her caste had been “detained” by some students in a classroom for over four hours, a committee investigating her complaint has said. In its interim report, the […]
