Author Archives: Sourya Banerjee
Book Review: Riddles in Hinduism by Dr. BR Ambedkar
This book was not published while Ambedkar was alive, but was published by the Maharastra government in 1987. The Shiv Sena took offence and saw this as an attack on…
PACT announces it’s first Online Dispute Resolution Competition | 8-11th May |
Online Dispute Resolution Competition (ODRC) is the first of its kind competition in India. It provides a platform for students to resolve commercial disputes through negotiation and understand how technology…
Hard and Soft Powers of Indian Diplomacy: Revisiting Maldives & Seychelles
“Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.” ~ Joseph S. Nye Jr., Soft Power: The Means To Success In World…
Tackling Taboo though Dance – Interview with Patruni Sastry, Expressionist Dancer
Alifiya caught up with Patruni Chidananda Sastry, who was born in Hyderabad and raised in West Bengal and is an expressionist classical dancer, by passion and an Analyst for…
Indian Aces announces it’s first Asexuality Fest in Chennai & Bangalore in August 2018
Indian Aces is an award-winning collective of asexual folk from or in India. Started in 2014 and relaunched in early 2016, the community has grown by leaps and bounds. They…
Trumping the Taboo: Interview with Madhavi Jadhav, Founder ThatMate
Madhavi Jadhav is the Founder of ThatMate, a platform which aims to shatter myths and taboo associated with sexual and mental health among adolescents, a state-level boxer and a…
In Service of the Goddesses: Interview with Swarnima Bhattacharya, Founder TheaCare
Arguendo catches up with Swarnima Bhattacharya, Founder TheaCare. Swarnima works as a POSH consultant with various companies and is also a Fellow of the Berlin-based DO School and a Women Deliver…
Imagining a World without borders: Interview with theater actor and traveler Akram Feroze
Theater actor-director and traveler Akram Feroze, believes in a world without borders, carries a world passport - as part of a global movement established under Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which…
The CLATaclysm of a Legal Exam
The legal educational examinations in the territory of India have always been marred by controversy and the quintessential deficiency of all elements you would associate with a modern welfare state.…
Anti-Coal Mining Activist murdered in Jharkhand.
Suresh Oraon (27) of Purnadih Chatra, Jharkhand was shot dead this morning. Suresh and his people were the owners of the land on which the state-owned Central Coalfields Limited (CCL)…