Lessons from Nana Patekar films for police, Jantar Mantar protestors
Nana Patekar’s films dramatise the citizen’s fury at power. Their deeper lesson is about what must come after the fury. Patekar rarely played men at ease with the world. His…
Nana Patekar’s films dramatise the citizen’s fury at power. Their deeper lesson is about what must come after the fury. Patekar rarely played men at ease with the world. His…
I write to you today not as a Member of Parliament nor a professor, but as someone who has spent years observing, listening to, walking alongside, and writing about protests…
South Calcutta Law College is so far away from Cornell in so many ways, and yet they are quite close. They have joined hands in educating us in the inhumanity…
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2 min readOct 10, 2026 06:58 AM IST First published on: Oct 10, 2026 at 06:58 AM IST Nana Patekar pulled off a rare balancing act in Bollywood. He could…
Spend even a few days on the frontlines of a protest, and you learn very quickly how it is decided who is allowed to have political agency.There is a carefully…
The Trustees of the Tata Trusts are deeply worried. They are fighting with their backs to the wall to stave off the Trojan horses in their midst to protect and…
In India, mass movements have often collided with the state. But the protests on October 10 by the Cockroach Janta Party, and continuing protests by Opposition parties, have produced a…
At a White House event alongside Vice President JD Vance, acting US Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that the Department of Labour would neither accept new nor process pending permanent…
4 min readOct 9, 2026 05:37 PM IST First published on: Oct 9, 2026 at 05:37 PM IST Recent agitations in New Delhi and elsewhere have had the effect of…