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‘A silk weaver can only weave silk, he cannot wear it.’

by Saachi D'Souza

The Tamil film, Kanchivaram, explores the exploitation of weavers in Tamil Nadu through the story of its protagonist Vengadam, who belongs to the traditional silk weaving community, and is set within a period that saw weavers struggling with economic inequality and rapidly rising suicide rates.

Saumya Kalia

The Story of ASHA Workers

Your Rainbow Doesn't Hide Your Casteism

Vqueeram Aditya Sahai
and Akhil Kang

We Must Call It What It Is: Caste Based Violence

Jyotsna Siddharth

It is imperative, to contextualize the emergence of brothel-based sex work and clarify our understanding of red-light areas. Major designated sex trade zones exist only in Delhi, West Bengal and Maharashtra. There are specific historical reasons behind the rise of both brothels and red-light areas in these cities

Sex Work Under The Colonial Raj:
Calcutta

by Nihira Ram

The Prison Between MOUNTAINS

Photos by Masrat Zahra
Text by Skye Arundhati Thomas

As we mark one year since the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A we must reckon with how we have failed Kashmir.

Text by Durgesh Solanki

in collaboration with Rajyashri Goody

External Independence

Internal slavery

While the Indian Constitution formally outlaws untouchability and its practice, caste continues to be a determining feature of independent India. Caste is everywhere.

Law

Sankul Sonawane

NEP 2020: Towards An Old Horizon

Bans, Boycotts and BORDERS

Dev Lewis

Felt Delhi Was No Longer My City

Abhimanyu Hazarika

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Kashmir is not just densely occupied. It is thoroughly occupied. It is intricately occupied. It is omnipresently occupied. It is repeatedly occupied.

by Tabish Rafiq Mir

Drugs and addiction are fundamentally intertwined, and yet the word ‘addiction’ does not appear in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) of India

by Ronny Sen

What We Get Wrong About Drug Abuse

Culture

Mayukh Sen

Fight and

FLIGHT

The Audacity to
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Nishant Kauntia

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Joshua Muyiwa

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