Authorities are increasingly clamping down on dissent, both online and on the ground.
Tag: Dissent
Free Speech in Manipur: A Slippery Slope Between a Facebook Post and Arbitrary Detention
In two almost similar cases of detention under the NSA, Manipur has shown an unapologetic habit of using laws meant for the most severe crimes to target free speech.
Review: Understanding the Politics of Memory, Resistance and Collective Amnesia
Yoko Ogawa's 'The Memory Police' imagines a world where memories are policed, targeted, altered and erased to suit the regime.
The Pandemic Can’t Be Romanticised Anymore
'A corpse trudges in the cemetery to find himself a grave.'
A Short, Bitter Street Play
A poem on hope, hopelessness and autocratic democracies.
What Profound Poetry Can I Offer You?
A political poem detailing the many ways to respond to these desperate times.
Gestapo Rap
'What chance have you – with all that fear of the knock on the door?'
Satire | What Was I Thinking? Of Course Rihanna Is a ‘Gandhi’, Greta a ‘Drop-Out Celeb’
A satirical take full of leaps of logic on the farmer protests in India and the international voices speaking out about them.
11 Reason Why 2020 Was a Turning Point for the Better
A lot of good things also happened in 2020; events that might, in the course of time, become more instrumental than the pandemic itself.