Just as the International Fortnight to protest Violence Against Women winds up this year, Qafe goes back to its historical moorings. By Paramita Banerjee. That time of the year has just ended – International Fortnight to protest Violence against Women:
Colombia seems to have become a symbol of the dogged struggle against inequality that we identify with communist ideals. In the midst of chaotic state of affairs, hope takes a new form through the peace talks held between the different
The coming back of the Amerindians,the struggle for liberation in Latin America and the way in which human action influences the geological balance of the world has transformed the definitions of capital, property and state. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera comes up with
We live in the Anthropocene world where human activity manipulates or even dictates nature. The question then arises, how much of Earth and its resources do we own? Koli Mitra explores the dialectic between public and private property, the role
In a world that is steadily changing, Deepa Bhasthi explores the ideas of travel and how it changes the perceptions that eventually led to revolutions. How it happened during the times of Che Guevara, and how it happens today …
Thomas Crowley compares Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ and Hero MotoCorp’s ‘Manufacturing Happiness’ to the extent of politicising their supposed environmentally beneficial endeavours in order to reveal a neo-liberal mindset … It is perhaps no coincidence that Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat
Geraldine Rose recounts her days in Nicaragua, January, 1988 and unfolds the revolution which can be “the threat of a good example” to the US. “It is normal for the state to regard the domestic population as a major enemy, who
I have a thousand faces Some I paint, some I mark and others I burn… If a face thinks he is better than the next one He can whisper it in my deaf right ear Didn’t you know the left
Idris Bhat demonstrates why the upcoming assembly elections in Kashmir are a political irony in the face of the history of deceit and brutality (on the part of the ruling authorities) that is etched in the psyche of almost every
In this edition of ‘Qafe’ Paramita Banerjee interrogates certain aspects of urban living in India especially its crime density (relating to women and nature of crime) and reveals the discrepancies in the steady growth of urbanisation … The hullabaloo about Clean