Reclaim the Day and Take Back the Night
Just as the International Fortnight to protest Violence Against Women winds up this year, Qafe goes…
Politics & Society
Colombian IDP’s: (Re)membering the forgotten
Colombia seems to have become a symbol of the dogged struggle against inequality that we identify…
Latin America’s comeback and the feathered thing called Hope
The coming back of the Amerindians,the struggle for liberation in Latin America and the way in…
Held In Trust: Individual Actors and the Gestalt of “Social Ownership”
We live in the Anthropocene world where human activity manipulates or even dictates nature. The question…
Of travels and revolutions
In a world that is steadily changing, Deepa Bhasthi explores the ideas of travel and how…
The Greenness is Blinding Us All
Thomas Crowley compares Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ and Hero MotoCorp’s ‘Manufacturing Happiness’ to the extent of…
The Threat of a Good Example
Geraldine Rose recounts her days in Nicaragua, January, 1988 and unfolds the revolution which can be…
Whispering Faces
I have a thousand faces Some I paint, some I mark and others I burn… If…
Why should Kashmiris boycott elections ?
Idris Bhat demonstrates why the upcoming assembly elections in Kashmir are a political irony in the…
Urban Indian Crimescape
In this edition of ‘Qafe’ Paramita Banerjee interrogates certain aspects of urban living in India especially its…