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#TodayInDevelopment: Wildlife Sanctuary Land Cleared For Ram Temple’s Pink Pillars

By sangeetha alwar November 21, 2020December 4, 2020 In Art, Culture, Today In Development 0 #TodayInDevelopment, humour 2

#TodayInDevelopment is an on-going series by The Ladies Compartment in an attempt to find sense amid the craziness that is New India.

#TodayInDevelopment: Performative Activism and Police Brutality

By sangeetha alwar June 28, 2020July 7, 2020 In Culture, POLITICS 0 #TodayInDevelopment, blacklivesmatter 0

The murder of a father and son in Tamil Nadu came at the heels of unprecedented Indian participation in the #BlackLivesMatter movement after George Floyd’s death. Yet, no such solidarity for the two men murdered by Indian police.

#TodayInDevelopment: Silencing Criticism

By THE LADIES COMPARTMENT September 29, 2019 In Culture 0 #TodayInDevelopment, KAMILA SHAMSIE 0

Silencing criticism is the new black in world politics. Take our two cases for this week’s ‘Development’.

CASE ONE: THE CASE OF UP JOURNALIST PAWAN JAISWAL

DEEP FAKE by Ria Bhatnagar

Jaiswal skyrocketed to the top of UP CM’s list of national enemies after the journalist exposed a government primary school in Mirzapur district,

#TodayInDevelopment: Kerela Church Dismisses Nun For Protesting Sexual Assault By Priest

By sangeetha alwar August 11, 2019 In Art, Culture 0 #metoo, #strongwomen 0

Publishing poems, learning to drive, buying a car, and supporting the protests against rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal: Kerela-based nun Sister Lucy Kalappura’s crimes against the church.

#TodayInDevelopment: From sexual harassment/assault to improper adjustments

By sangeetha alwar August 5, 2019August 11, 2019 In Art, Comic Series, Culture, Humour, POLITICS 1 #metoo, #PattanhiJois 0

In March 2018, On J. Brown’s podcast, Beryl Bender Birch, one of Pattabhi’s famed students, said, “Oh my God, everybody knew!”

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One Year Since CAA-NRC Protests: What I Learned, What It Meant For My Activism

By Srishti Bose December 17, 2020December 18, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords 0 Activism, CAA NRC 1

It’s been a year since multiple cities across India protested against the CAA and NRC, a year since a lot of us pierced through our bubbles of privilege and confronted the spectacle of liberal activism, and how it would manifest.

India’s Disposable ‘Daughters’, What the Hathras Case Tells Us About Caste

By Mrudula October 3, 2020October 24, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords 0 Anti-Caste, Dalit Women 0

The Hathras rape IS a caste-based sexual violence committed by upper-caste men in order to humiliate an entire community. The manner in which the UP and Central government failed to take care of this young life is also rooted in the caste-system.