Vedanta’s Sijimali bauxite mining project has thrown Odisha’s Rayagada and Kalahandi districts into the eye of a storm. The predominantly tribal communities living in the villages at the foothills of Sijimali are opposing the project and the State has come down heavily on them. Dr. Sankalpa Satapathy Vedanta Limited’s Sijimali bauxite mining project […]
Ashley Tellis thinks Karthik Subbaraj’s Dorothy, currently making waves in Tamil Nadu, is, like some other of his films, a feminist cult classic Karthik Subbaraj’s Dorothy ushers in the return of Tamil cinema but, more importantly, will go down in history as one of popular Tamil cinema’s most powerful feminist films. At the heart […]
Thousands of protesters gathered around Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on 2 October, defying the denial of police permission and a sweeping security clampdown imposed to prevent the protests from taking place. Barricades sealed the designated protest site from all four directions, mobile internet was suspended across central Delhi, several Metro stations were shut, and riot-control forces […]