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Year: 2016

  • Seasons of Our Being: Punjab On Two Sides of the Wagah
    Dalip Kaur Tiwana
  • Remembering Chandralekha — Dancer, Feminist — Through Photographs
  • “No Hindu Rashtra”: Nayantara Sahgal
  • How has Demonetisation Affected the Tibetan Refugee Settlements in Delhi?
  • “Making the National Anthem Compulsory in Cinema Halls is a Call to Violence”: Sadanand Menon
  • In Fear of Silence: A Conversation With Megha Pansare
    ICF Team
  • How did Demonetisation Affect Local Handicraft Sellers?
  • Extract from The Past of the Outcaste: Readings in Dalit History
  • Book Extract: A Feminist Foremother:
    Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
  • Dakshinayan: The Long Path Towards Reason
    Vidhya
  • সাক্ষাতকার: শমীক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ও সৌরদীপ রায়
  • Poem on Demonetisation: What Colour, Money? Ballad of the Commoners
    R. Umamaheshwari (Veena)
  • “For me it has always been about the ‘interior landscape’…”
    ICF speaks to Manohar Shetty
  • We Don’t Need No Surgical Strikes
  • From Sukh Dukkh’er Saathi (Companion in Love and Sorrow)
    Utpal Kumar Basu
  • Three Poems
    K. Satchidanandan
  • Ghalib’s Ghost
    and other poems
  • Reflections of a Cartographer
    Manohar Shetty
  • Another Way
    Arundhathi Subramaniam
  • Of Peace and War
    Keki Daruwalla
  • Listen to Our Poets on War!
  • Lokayat: Fighting Fascism
    Vidhya
  • “The Fascists, in Germany too, first came after the universities”
  • Ayodhya or Saket: The Politics of Ram Temple
  • पर्दे पर उभरता ‘प्रतिरोध का सिनेमा’
  • My Protest
    Dalip Kaur Tiwana
  • What is to be done about Indian Universities?: Reflections from Concerned Teachers
  • “Any developing society has to be built on the back of a robust public school system”
  • “The drought of Bara is everywhere upon us”
  • Speak On, We Are With You!
    Statement from the Indian Writers’ Forum
    article 19 free speech writers artists
  • Terror of Law: The Gujarat Protection of Internal Security Act (GPISA)
    Vidhya
  • सांस्कृतिक अवमूल्यन की राजनीतिक साज़िश
    प्रसिद्ध कवि अशोक वाजपेयी से ख़ास चर्चा
  • Chalo Udupi: Food of Our Choice, Land is Our Right
    ICF Team
  • We Condemn the Attacks on IPTA in Indore
    ICF Team and Janwadi Lekhak Sangh
  • “There are some who shoot the messenger; there are some who sue. The casualty in both cases is democracy.”
    Neha Kirpal in conversation with Subir Ghosh and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
  • Book Extract: Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?
  • Standing up for Equal Rights
  • “A huge compromise has been made by our so-called intellectuals.”
    ICF speaks to Teesta Setalvad
  • Tell the Tale, Urvashi
    Revisiting Dalip Kaur Tiwana's Popular Punjabi Novel in English
  • Rape, Beef, and Gau Rakshaks: A Ground Report from Mewat
    via Newsclick
  • In Search of an Ethical Life
    U.R. Ananthamurthy's Bara, translated by Chandan Gowda
  • “99% of the victims of gender violence were killed afterwards.”
    ICF speaks to Teesta Setalvad
  • India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme Right
    Aijaz Ahmad
  • National Protest Marking One Year Since M.M. Kalburgi’s Assassination
  • “We need to detach art from socio-political constructions”
    T. M. Krishna's Magsaysay Address
  • “There is a subversive counter-current in Valmiki’s Ramayana”
  • “You can silence me, but you cannot silence the truth”
  • ‘Assassinations will not defeat reason’
  • Writers in Search of an Oasis: Rahman Abbas’ Novel Cleared of Obscenity Charges
  • Indian Nationalism v/s Hindu Nationalism
    A. G. Noorani
  • Tribal Voices: The Bhasha Research and Publication Centre
  • Saffronising and Corporatising Indian Education: Critique of the National Educational Policy 2016 Draft
  • Read Widerstand – the Magazine Banned by Pondicherry University
  • Book Extract: from ‘Bollywood’
  • A Holy Grail Called Sanjeevani
  • Mahasweta Devi: Living for Justice, Living Forever
  • Things the Left Needs to do Right
  • A Life in Thala: The World of Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
  • Are you O, P, W or D.W.?
  • Freedom of Speech in the University

  • In the Dark
  • Face/Off: The Unmaking of India in Bisada
  • Statement on Kashmir from Academics, Writers, Artists and Filmmakers
  • Kashmir: Cry, my Beloved Country
  • The World in Many Guises
  • The Word ‘Rashtra’
  • Perumal Murugan: A Parable of our Times
  • Imprisoning Minds
  • Indian Writers’ Forum: “Ensure Kalburgi’s murderers are brought to book…”
  • In Favour of Free Speech: Full Minutes of the Madras High Court Ruling in Perumal Murugan’s Case
  • The Artist as Activist
  • Yes, the Adivasi Will Not Dance!
  • Why Has the Audience Gone “Wild”?
  • As We Remember Eleanor Zelliot
  • Extract from Words Matter: Writings Against Silence
  • Sedition and the Right to Freedom of Expression
  • ‘An acceleration of the policies we have been struggling against’
  • Can a Language be “Anti-National”?
    ICF Team
  • The Tall Claims of the Foreign Education Bill
  • Avaaz Do! — A SAHMAT Poster Exhibition Calls for Solidarity
  • Mapping and Conserving our Languages: the People’s Linguistic Survey
  • Book Extract: from The Making of Exile
  • The Sanatan Dharma Recipe for Historical Writing and Research
  • Reader, Translator, Friend: Remembering Lakshmi Holmström
  • I am language
  • “University research will be reduced to the level of market surveys”
  • Hindutva versus Hinduism
  • Keeping Higher Education Free and Alive in Gujarat
  • The Gopalaswami Panel Recommendations: Teaching a Regressive Science in Sanskrit
  • ‘Our society has become deeply dehumanised’
  • How Do We Help the Arts Flourish?
  • Book Extract: from The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities
  • Remembering the Real Ambedkar
  • Ambedkar and Freedom
  • The NCPUL’s Attack on Free Speech
  • On the Legacy of Bhagat Singh
  • Resolving Binaries: Remembering ONV Kurup (1931-2016)
  • A Fig Leaf Called ‘Vandalism’
  • Writing the Age
  • Rajmohan Gandhi: ‘The threat to our constitution’
  • Interview: Gauhar Raza speaks out against Zee’s attack
  • “Hope against hope”: a talk by Ashok Vajpeyi
  • Mourid Barghouti in conversation with Githa Hariharan
  • On the Liberal Indian Academic Living in Fear Today
  • Interview with Soni Sori
  • Book Extract: From The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf 
  • “Treat dalit women as equals before the law”: Radhika Vemula on Women’s Day
  • Caste, Religion and Lived Culture
  • Azadi from the Modi government: Kanhaiya Kumar interviewed by Teesta Setalvad
  • Singing About the Dark Times
    Shubha Mudgal Sings Dushyant Kumar’s
    “kahaan to tai thaa charaghaan har ek ghar ke liye”
  • The Indian Cultural Forum Salutes Our Students
  • Statement from the Indian Writers’ Forum on Sheldon Pollock
  • Lecture by Aijaz Ahmad: The Languages of a Union
  • Book Extract: Kabul Blogs: My Days in the Life of Afghanistan
  • ‘Children of God’ by Huchangi Prasad
  • Delhi Stands with Rohith Vemula
  • Romila Thapar: “The battle now is between religious nationalism and secular nationalism . . .”
  • “The roots of the caste system are getting deeper . . .”
  • Shital Sathe of the Kabir Kala Manch in conversation with Sudhanva Deshpande
  • Repeal the Law of Sedition or Forget about Freedom of Expression
    Mridula Garg
  • Inside JNU, Solidarity Holds Us All Together
    Souradeep Roy
  • JNU and Our democracy
    Romila Thapar
  • Romila Thapar: “The protests by JNU students and teachers have been remarkable . . .”
    Romila Thapar in conversation with Githa Hariharan
  • Protest and the Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression
    Lawrence Liang & Siddharth Narrain
  • Attack on JNUSU and the Left Built on Lies
    Newsclick Report
  • “I have always stood with all my writers”
    Kannan Sundaram in conversation with Souradeep Roy
  • “All literature is in some sense political…”
    Susheila Nasta in conversation with Githa Hariharan
  • Because Huchangi Prasad is a Dangerous Young Man
    Aman Kumar, Souradeep Roy & Prannay Pathak
  • “Negative language in dalit writing persists because of the negative lives we’re forced to lead”
    Urmila Pawar in conversation with Jerry Pinto
  • Photo Essay: Sarv Bhasha Samvad in Dandi, January 30
    ICF Team
  • People’s March in Defence of the Republic, New Delhi, January 30, 2016
    Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre
  • “Cut through the system instead of cutting ourselves…”
    ​Bama in conversation with Githa Hariharan
  • Special Feature: Being Gandhi, Seeing Gandhi
    ICF Team
  • Book Extract: from Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
    Harsh Mander
  • When will we leave the same old republic behind?
    Aman Kumar
  • Indefinite Hunger Strike: Press Release by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice dated 21st Jan, 2016
    Joint Action Committee for Social Justice
  • “The Challenge is in the Individual becoming the Collective…”
    Sadanand Menon in Conversation with Shreya Illa Anasuya
  • The Writers’ Fight is On!
    Nayantara Sahgal
  • Resolution passed at the Panel Discussion on “Caste, Religion and Lived Culture” at Ambedkar University, January 20, 2016
    ICF Team
  • Death in the Name of Merit
    The Death of Merit Blog
  • No More Deaths in Our Universities!
    ICF Team
  • Who will speak for the Human Rights Defenders?
    Dalits Media Watch
  • Kar Seva through Universities
    Sabrang India
  • Book Extract: from Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The State of Hurt
    Rina Ramdev, Sandhya Devesan Nambiar & Debaditya Bhattacharya
  • Reject Hindutva, Embrace Insaniyat
    Nayantara Sahgal
  • Caste Crimes: How the Guilty Can be Punished
    Sabrang India
  • Creativity and Censorship: The Insider versus the Outsider
    A R Venkatachalapathy, T M Krishna, Sharmila Seyyid & Kannan Sundaram in Conversation
  • Indian History Congress: “Don’t break monuments, don’t incite religious sentiments”
    Indian History Congress
  • “There will be singing about the dark times…”
    Faisal Abu Alhayjaa & Sudhanva Deshpande in conversation with Souradeep Roy
  • Adivasis and not Naxalites are the Target of the Government: Soni Sori
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