It is Time To Stand Up and Stand Tall for the Indian LGBT Community
In 2008 I wrote for then popular collaborative blog, Desicritics.org, that the only way for LGBT community to assert their identity and gain recognition is by coming out in large number, show their...
View ArticleArnab Ray aka Great Bong Objects to Swara Bhaskar’s Feminist Review of...
Award winning actor Swara Bhaskar’s extremely well crafted hard hitting feminist critique of Padmavati (in an open letter to Bhansali) has gone viral. It is heartening that an industry insider said...
View ArticleBudget 2018 and Women: Liberalism And Secularism For Women’s Rights
Today’s Indian Express Newspaper’s biggest headline was “Economics with Politics” meaning that BJP’s Budget 2018 is more a political strategy with eye on the forth coming general election. BJP has...
View ArticleShould It Be RSS or Affiliates To Decide Whether or Not Government should...
First published on Firstpost. All my previous Firstpost articles here. In the United States, January is the month of Cervical Cancer Awareness. Countrywide efforts are made to raise awareness about the...
View ArticleReview: Mothering A Muslim By Nazia Erum – Muslim Mothers Must Choose between...
Blurb: Nazia Erum’s book focuses on the grave issue of growing Islamophobia in India post 2014 affecting Muslim children at a very early formative years of their lives, and how young Muslim mothers are...
View ArticleStop Looking For A Victim In The Legend That Sridevi Was
Can we not accept that she must have had the agency to decide for herself what kind of lifestyle she wanted in her 50s? Can we not accept that if she did go for various surgeries to look less than her...
View Article[Poem] A Mirror After The Tree
This is the 5th in the series of ‘Search’ (Part I – She Was Walking Searching, Part II – The Road has Come To And End, Part III Still Searching, Part IV She Became A Tree) Part V – A Mirror After the...
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Something suddenly woke me up last night The wind had come to sweep life away I asked, “what is it that you intend to take” It said, “all that you have as yours” Then, there was a new morning, and a...
View ArticleImpeachment of Chief Justice of India – Why The Political Clash?
This is a common person’s guide to understand the impeachment motion, I had originally shared these as multiple tweets. First time in independent India #Impeachment of sitting Chief Justice is being...
View ArticlePress Release: Citizen’s Conclave 25-27 May, 2018 – An Open Non Funded...
CITIZENS’ CONCLAVE 25-27 May, 2018 Highly perturbed by the growing violence, attacks on women and girls, atmosphere of hatred across the nation, attacks on dissent, further marginalization of Dalits...
View ArticleWhat Is Nationalism? Rashtravad राष्ट्रवाद क्या है?
I have made a few tweets on Nationalism on Twitter. Here I am presenting a collection of my tweets. Besides gender and public space, gender and nationalism is my other important topic of research and...
View ArticleYashpal Saxena Lost His Son Ankit to Religious Hate – Wants to Spread...
This piece was first published on Firstpost. All my articles on Firstpost here. After the publication of this photostory, Crowdnewsing team called me requesting to help them get in touch with Saxena...
View ArticleWomen With Tattoos – Be A Part Of This Incredible Photography Project
The Woman with Tattoos – A photographic project to demystify her By Sanjukta Basu A search for the ‘self’ behind the tattoo, to demystify the identity of a woman with tattoos. To break the stereotypes...
View ArticleSanjukta Basu On Al Jazeera Stream Speaking On Honour Killings
I recently appeared as a guest on the Al Jazeera English program AJ Stream talking on the issue of Honour Killing. The program was in the context of the 2016 Tamil Nadu Honour Killing case in which...
View ArticleCitizenship Amendment Bill Tearing Apart Assam – BJP’s Hindutva poll plank...
How BJP's Hindutva agenda is root cause behind the tension in Assam and how they opened wounds and fault lines between Assamese and Bengalis
View ArticleAIPC Fellows Feature, A Video Series Featuring Young Talents From All India...
This is a teaser to a new series of short videos I am going to launch featuring some of the All India Professional Congress Fellows. Who are the AIPC Fellows? In the 84th Plenary Session of the Indian...
View ArticleOn Munshi Premchand’s Birth Anniversary, Stop Reading Him! Premchand is...
Today is the birth anniversary of Upanyas Samrat Munshi Premchand. A few government establishments I am aware of celebrated the day with very poignant tributes discussing his work and life. But pro BJP...
View ArticleInterview with Ex-CBI Joint Director Shantonu Sen on Corruption and Modi...
This is my published article, first appeared on Firstpost on 3rd Aug 2018 The Supreme Court on Monday, pulled up Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Chief Alok Varma for failing to make arrests in...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi Is A Complete Antithesis of Modi, And That’s Why India Needs Him
This is my published article, first appeared on Daily O on 5th May 2018. Notably, this went viral and have so far been shared 84.6k times. Never expected it would be appreciated so much. My thanks to...
View ArticleGood That Rahul Gandhi Does Not Have An Agenda – Learning From RSS BJP’s...
This is my published article, first appeared on Daily O on 12th May 2018. The Congress party has no vision or ideology – This has been an oft repeated rhetoric from the right wing camp. As Raul Gandhi...
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