For the 16 migrant tribals, crushed by a goods train at Aurangabad, as they were walking home during the coronavirus lockdown, May 2020 My wife chose to stay with a mother-in-law she does not even like Saying harvest is upon us, crop has to be taken to market All the women say this, though really, they cast off their ghunghats and tell off-colour jokes in the courtyard when our backs are turned She, more than anyone, spins them as she pats the flour, they listen. Shameless, is how I remember…
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Unleavened
Mar 13, 2022
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Archive: Women's Migration and Resettlement
Nov 24, 2021
I. WIDOW'S MIGRATION: the history and socio-religious stimulants 1. Forced or Voluntary Migration of the Widows: the Impact and the Consequences Speakers: Ann Wilder, Lata Murti, Rituparna Bhattacharyya 2. Widows of Kashi: Migration & Resettlement Speakers: Shome Basu, Mona Verma, Rekha Pande. 3. Judicial Arbitration and Resettlement of Widows Speaker: Shri Bindeshwar Pathak. 4. Occupation, Finance, Sustenance - Widows and their Movements Speakers: Prof. Malashri Lal, Meera Khanna. 5…
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Archives: STORIES OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA series
Nov 24, 2021
Vish Dhamija, Jenny Bhatt, Dr. Rajeev Kamineni, Prof. Nyla Ali Khan Bhaswati Ghosh, Prof. Neilesh Bose, Prof. Shobna Nijhawan, Christopher Raja Dr. Rashida Murphy, Prof. Chandrima Chakraborty Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee, Prof. Jaswinder Bolina, Prof. Manu Bhagavan Roanna Gonsalves, Prof. Bashabi Fraser, Sahana Bajpaie Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca, Dr. Jagbir Jhutti-Johal, Dr. Yadu Singh Rev. Tuhina Verma, Tanushree Ghosh, Prof. Sukanya Chakrabarti Damyanti Biswas and Ananya Mukherjee, Dr. Pallavi Gu…
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The history and geography of floods: the emotional, psychological and economic aspects of rehabilitation. 1. Floods in rural Bihar & the victims of policies - Dinesh Kumar Mishra, Sayanangshu Modak 2. River governance and politics in India - Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh, Sayanangshu Modak Books on flood: role of literature in generating victim sensitivity. 3. The Sound of Water: Death, Displacement, Disaster - Sanjay Bahadur, Aisik Maiti 4. No One Had a Tongue to Speak: Collapse of the Machhu Dam - …